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.