said Province of Maryland bearing date the sixth and twentieth day of August one thousand six hundred fifty one we did among other things require and authorise our Lieutenant of the said Province for the time being for the encouragement of Adventurers and Planters to begin Plantations on the part of our said Province commonly called and known there by the name of the Eastern Shore and on the tract of land running on the north side of the River running in by Potomack Town and called in some Mapps Potomack River including the country called the Doags to Grant to every such adventurer or planter a hundred acres of land for every person of Brittish or Irish descent which he should bring into the said Province until we should declare our further pleasure therein we do now hereby declare that no person or persons hereafter shall have more land granted or allowed unto them or any of them by us in the places before mentioned then in any other part of our said Province for or in respect of any person or persons which shall be transported into our said Province from and after the twentieth day of June next; And Wee do further will and require you that in all Grants from us of any Mannor in any part of our said Province which shall be passed hereafter for or in respect of any person or persons which shall be transported into our said Province from and after the said twentieth day of June next you cause to be reserved upon every such Grant the Rent of two shillings Sterling for every fifty acres which shall be passed by any such Grant to be paid yearly to us and our heirs for the same for ever and also that you demand and cause to be paid to our Treasurer or Receiver Generall there for our use by every such Patentee or Grantee one years rent for a fine according to the rent which shall be reserved in every such Pattent or Grant of a Mannor so to be passed as aforesaid respectively before the passing of any such, Patentt or Grant and that likewise in all Grants or Patents from us whether of Mannors or other lands in our said Province which shall be hereafter passed for or in respect of any person or persons which shall be transported into our said Province from and after the said twentieth day of June you cause to be reserved upon every such Grant or Patent one years rent for a fine to be paid upon every alienation of the Mannors or land so to be granted respectively. And to that end to insert a Proviso in the said respective Grants that no such tennant shall alien any such Mannor or land or any part thereof without entring every such alienation respectively in the Records of the Provinciall Court there or of the County Court where any such Mannor or land shall happen to lye within one month at the furthest next after every such allienation respectively And also to pay the said fine aforesaid before the said alienation or else Source: John Kilty. Land Holder's Assistant and Land Office Guide. Baltimore: G. Dobbin & Murphy, 1808. MSA L 25529.