That tlie Governor be likewise Directed to grant under the Seal of that Province, without fee or Reward, 40 acres per liead to each family, after they shall have repaid by the produce of their Labour the charges the publick shall be at in settling and subsisting them there, in the manner as is herein after proposed ; To have and to hold the said Lands, to them and their heirs for ever, under tlie usual Quit-Rent to commence and be payable after seven years from the date of Each respective Grant • and fui'ther, that in every such grant tliere be an express Proviso that the Lands so granted shall be seated and planted within a rea,sonable time to be tlierein prefixed, or on failure thereof, such Grant to be void, and to revert to tlie Crown, And for tlie better preventing those people from falling upon the Yv^oollen Manufactures, it v/ill be proper that in every such grant, a Clause be incerted, declaring the said Grant to be void, if such Grantee shall apply himself to the making of Woollen or sucli like Lianufactiue.

As these People are very necessitous they will not be able to

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maintain themselves tliere. till they can reap the benefit of tlieii labour whicli will not be till after one year at tlie soonest, We therefore humbly oiler that they be Subsisted, The men and women at the rate of 6*^ sterling a head p^' day, and the children under the age of 10 years at 4*^ Sterling a iieud p^' day which as we are inibrmed will be sufiicient