the alienation to be void; and we require you to proceed in all the before mentioned premisses according to this our declaration any thing contained in our said former declaration or Conditions of Plantation or in any instructions or other Warrant heretofore from us to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding, but in all other things our will is that our last Conditions of Plantation shall remain in force until we or our heirs shall signyfie our or their pleasure to the contrary. Provided always that all such Warrants or Instructions for the granting of any Mannors or lands in our said Province as we have given or granted to any person or persons before the date hereof wherein we have allowed any further time then the said twentieth of June for the transporting of any people into our said Province for and in consideration or in respect of the granting of any Mannor or land mentioned in any such Warrant shall not be any way impeached by this our declaration but shall stand in as much force and be observed and performed according to the tenor and true intention of every such Warrant or instruction respectively as if this present instrument had not been made, any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding: and this our declaration we will and require you to cause to be published after the usual manner in our said Province with all convenient expedition after your receipt hereof. Given under our hand and greater seal at arms the two and twentieth day of September in the seven and twentieth year of our Dominion over the said Province of Maryland and in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred fifty and eight."     LIB. Q. folio 478. ¾     " A Declaration by the Lord Proprietary of Maryland.     " Whereas by our declaration of the 22d of September 1658 directed to our then Lieutenant of Maryland Wee did require that in all grants from us of Mannors there for persons transported thither after the 20th of June 1659 there should be reserved to us and our heirs a rent of two shillings yearly for every fifty acres, and one years rent for a fine, and that in all grants of land for persons transported after the said 20th day of June there should be reserved one year's rent for a fine to be paid upon every alienation of any such land and to that end and proviso should bee put into every grant that noe tenant should alien any part of the land granted without entring it one month after in the Provinciall or County Court there and that hee should pay the said fine before the said alienation, or else the alienation to bee void; And H Source: John Kilty. Land Holder's Assistant and Land Office Guide. Baltimore: G. Dobbin & Murphy, 1808. MSA L 25529.