Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1732/3. 25

John Pattan, James Pattan James Pattison Jun^r John Trotter
& William Macmanac, or any of them, or any other persons
who were Concerned in the said Riot or any of them who shall
be at any time found within this Our Province And We Strictly
Charge & require all our Tenants to Aid & Assist our Officers
herein, and as a further Encouragement to Apprehend & bring
to Justice the said Charles Jones, James Pattison, Alexander
M^cKey, John Capper, John Hart, John Pattan, James Pattan
James Pattison Jun^r John Trotter, & William Macmanac and
the other persons Concerned with them in the said Riot or
any of them We promise and proclaim to any of our Officers
or others who shall App^rhend the said Charles Jones, James
Pattison, Alexander M^cKey, John Capper, John Hart, John
Pattan, James Pattan, James Pattison Jun^r John Trotter and
William Macmanac or any of them or any other persons who
shall be Convict by due Course of Law of having been Con-
cerned in the said Riot fifty pounds Current money of this Our
Province for Each & every of them And We do hereby Strictly
Charge & Require the Sheriff of our County of Cecil to make
this our Proclamation Publick in the said County in the usual
manner, as he will Answer the Contrary at his Peril Given at
Annapolis this ninth day of March in the Eighteenth Year of
Our Dominion Annoq Dom 1732.
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Maryland ss.
By the Right Honourable Charles Absolute Lord and Pro-
prietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron
of Baltimore &c.

Baltimore.
Wee being Desireous to Increase the Number of Honest
people within our Province of Maryland and willing to give
Suitable Encouragement to such to come and Reside therein
Do offer the following Terms.
I^st That any person haveing a ffamily who shall within
three Years come and Actually Settle with his or her Family
on any of the back Lands on the Northern or Western Boun-
darys of our said province not already taken up between the
Rivers Potomack and Susquehana (where we are Informed

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there are Several large Bodies of Fertile Lands fit for Tillage,
Which may be Seen without any Expence) Two hundred Acres
of the said Lands in ffee Simple Without paying any part of
the fforty Shillings Sterling for every hundred Acres payable
to Us by the Conditions of Plantations, And without paying
any Quit Rents in three Years after the first Settlement, and

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