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England; with conditions in each grant, "That every purchaſer ſhould pay down twenty per cent of the whole purchaſe money, together with ſixpence ſterling per acre, for the expence of ſurveying the land; and that, the remainder of the purchaſe money ſhould be ſecured by bonds; to be paid by equal inſtallments, in the ſpace of five years, next after the date of the grant. That, each purchaſer ſhould keep on the lands ſo by him purchaſed, one white man, or two white women for every hundred acres of land, as it became cleared; for the purpoſe of cultivating the ſame. Or in default thereof, or non payment of the remainder of the purchaſe money, the lands were to be forfeited to his Majeſty, his heirs and ſucceſſors."

The Commiſſioners were alſo impowered to execute leaſes to the French inhabitants, of ſuch lands as were found in their poſſeſſion at

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