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shall accept in discharge thereof at the choice of us and our
Heirs and Assignees or of such Officer or Officers as shall
receive as aforesaid, provided that if the said Alienation Fine
shall not he paid unto us and to Our Heirs and Assignees or
to such Officer or Officers aforesaid appointed, such Alienation
Fine not paid the said Alienation shall not be valid upon Record
either in our Provincial Court or County Court where the same
parcell of Land lieth if not legally entered upon Record by
payment to us the said Alienation Fine within two months
after such Alienation Fine is due no Person shall buy or sell
any such Lands or Tenements, or under the Colour of Gift or
Lease or by reason of any other Title receive the same or by
any other Craft or Engine shall presume to appropriate to
himself for themselfs thereby such Lands as may in any wise
come to be excused from non-payment of the Alienation Fine
aforesaid under pain of the forfeiture of the said Patent or
Grant of the said Lands, and within the year after the Aliena-
tion is become due, that is after two months as aforesaid, It
shall be lawful for me the Lord Proprietor of Maryland and
my Heirs and Assignees as Lords of the Fee to Enter and my
Officers and their Officers appointed as aforesaid and for
default of non-payment of the said Alienation Fine aforesaid
I as Lord Proprietor and my Heirs and Assignees shall have
the Lands so alienated for ever and shall infeoff to others by
certain Services &ca as the conditions of an Alienation Fine
are by Mortmain or transferring Ones Right and Property to
another subject thereunto by all my Ancestors and my Patents
already Granted, And respecting to all such Patents or Grants
as usual is to be at the bottom, Witness Our Trusty and
Well beloved Horatio Sharpe Esqr Lieutenant General and
Chief Governor of Our said Province of Maryland and Chan-
cellor and Keeper of Our Great Seal thereof, and the Patents
to be Certifyed by his Signature.
And whereas there are several other Parcells of Land in my
said Province of Maryland called Reserved Lands belonging
unto me and adjoining or near unto Lands already Patented
and Granted, My Will and Pleasure is respecting all such
Lands laying as uncultivated Lands and not Tenanted, That
my said Judges of my Land Office do immediately and soon
as can be to sell and dispose of such Lands aforesaid to any
Purchaser as shall offer to take by Patent or Grant, Subjected
pro rata as to Purchase Money as to Quantity of Acres as
aforesaid expressed and to the same Annual Quit Rent, and
upon Contracts conditions and Covenants of my said Manor
Lands to be sold as aforesaid and with Limitation of an Alien-
ation Fine as aforesaid and subjected on default of non-pay-
ment to the said Alienation Fine to the Penalties as is to be
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