acres so to be granted upon credit as aforesaid and make sufficient legal proof of such bringing in and importation of every such person.     " 3dly That notwithstanding any reservation made by his Lordship or his Lordship's Surveyor General for his Lordship's use of any lands on either side of Mount Scarborough in the County of Somerset within the said Province you shall forthwith make good all articles made by our dear brother Philip Calvert, Esq. on his Lordship's behalf and Colonel Edmund Scarburgh upon the laying out of the bounds between his Lordship's said Province and the Province of Virginia in relation to the granting of any lands in and by the said articles agreed to be granted to any person or persons whatsoever at the time of the making of the said articles, so as the said grants be made according to his Lordship's Conditions of Plantation before his Lordship's instructions above mentioned bearing date the 28th day of July 1669, and so as all royal mines be excepted in every such grant.     (The 4th article omitted, as concerning another subject, and the date 21st of March 1670.)                 Signed                        C. BALTIMORE." COUNCIL BOOK, C.B. fol. 28. ¾     "MARYLAND ss.     " BY THE HONORABLE THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL.     " Whereas the Right Honourable Cecilius absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore, &c. hath by his instructions bearing date at London under his hand and seal the 21st day of March 1669 commanded us to publish and declare to all people that shall have a desire to seat on the seaboard side on the Eastern Shore on Delaware Bay within the fortieth degree of northerly latitude and particularly at the Whorekill his Lordship's Conditions of Plantation to all such as shall transport themselves as aforesaid which is as followeth viz.     " Any person of British or Irish discent who shall desire to seat themselves in any of the places last mentioned shall take up there upon credit any quantity of lands or number of acres not exceeding three hundred to any one person and every such grant for such number of acres shall be particular and by itself and so as there be reserved unto his 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 as aforesaid and also all royal mines and so as every such Source: John Kilty. Land Holder's Assistant and Land Office Guide. Baltimore: G. Dobbin & Murphy, 1808. MSA L 25529.