all lands so resurveyed and not paid for as aforesaid, to be again subjected to the preemption of the next discoverer: which said proclamation hath been hitherto little regarded by the people of this province.     " Wherefore, for the better enforcing the same, and for removeing any pretence of surprize upon any of his lordship's tenants; these are in his said lordship's name to publish and make known unto all persons whatsoever having or pretending any right to lands by certificate of resurvey returned and lodged in his lordship's land office, upon escheat warrants, upon warrants for vacant cultivations, or upon speciall warrants for adding contiguous vacancy as aforesaid; that if they do not apply to the agent, and make purchase of his lordship's right to such land as aforesaid, and sue out grants thereon according to the design and purport of the above recited proclamation, then and in all such cases the several tracts of land so resurveyed, and now lying upon certificate returned and lodged in his lordship's land office are subjected as by the former proclamation to the first discoverer of such deficiency on failure in the payment of the purchase money or neglect in making good rights to the same; which discoverer for his greater encouragement will be allowed the preemption of the land, so by him discovered to have been held and claimed by any person or persons whatsoever without paying the purchase money, or making good rights to vacancies as aforesaid. Wherefore we charge his lordship's agent and secretary and all others concerned to take particular notice. Given at Annapolis, this 13th day of August, 1732.                                         SAMUEL OGLE." ¾ " MARYLAND, ss. " By the right honourable the lord proprietary, " A PROCLAMATION.         " BALTIMORE.     " Whereas we thought fit to desist for some time past from granting any new warrant out of our land office, and as we are now again pleased to give our tenants liberty of entitling themselves to lands in this our province, we hereby publish and declare the further terms, conditions and reservations upon which any grant or patent shall pass from us for such lands, to witt: That the annual rent of ten shillings sterling shall be reserved and payable to us by every such patent for every hundred acres of land to be granted in such patent, on any warrant not issued before the date hereof; unless our chancellor and judge of our land affairs shall determine and direct a Z