per annum to be reserved due and payable to his
Lordship his heirs and successors Lords and Proprietaries of the
said Province for every fifty acres of land excepting only on
the sea board side on the Eastern Shore and on Delaware
Bay within the 40th degree northerly Latitude and
particularly at the Whorekill in which places so excepted as aforesaid
his Lordship's pleasure was and is that lands be granted at
the yearly rent of one shilling sterling per annum for
every fifty acres to be reserved due and payable as aforesaid
according to the Conditions of Plantation before the said
instructions, his Lordship doth now declare order and
authorize you to pass in his name under his great seal there such
grants of land as were due to any person or persons being
transported into his said Province before the said 28th day of
July 1669 at the former yearly rent of one shilling sterling
for every fifty acres according to his Lordship's former
Conditions of Plantation any thing in the said instructions of the
said 28th day of July notwithstanding but as to the
appointting of land there for and in respect of any person or
persons that have been or shall be transported into his said
Province since the said 28th day of July 1669 his Lordship's
will and pleasure is that his said instructions of the said date
shall be observed.
" 2ndly That you endeavour to the utmost of your power
to procure that some persons be seated upon the said sea
board side on the Eastern Shore and on the said Delaware
Bay within the fortieth degree of northerly Latitude and
particularly at the Whorekill; for the further and greater
encouragement of the planting of which places his Lordship
doth hereby give you power and authority to permit any
person or persons of British or Irish discent who shall desire
to seat themselves on any of the said places last mentioned
to take up upon credit any quantity of lands or number of
acres there not exceeding the number of three hundred acres
by any one person so as every grant of such lands so to be
made and granted upon credit be particular and by itself,
and so as there be reserved unto his said Lordship and his
heirs upon every such grant the yearly rent of one shilling
sterling for every fifty acres of land so to be granted upon credit
as aforesaid and also all royal mines, and so as every such
grant of land so to be taken up and granted upon credit as
aforesaid be made and granted upon condition to be void in
case the grantee or grantees to whom the same shall be
so made and granted his or their heirs or assigns respectively
do not or shall not within four years to be accounted from
the day of the date of such grant or grants respectively bring
in or import into the said Province to reside and continue
there one person of British or Irish discent for every fifty
Source: John Kilty. Land Holder's Assistant and Land Office Guide. Baltimore: G. Dobbin & Murphy, 1808. MSA L 25529.
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