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we have received a Petition from the Grand Aembly of our County of Albemarle, praying, That the Inhabitants of aid County may hold their Lands upon the ame Terms and Conditions that the Inhabitants of Virginia hold theirs; and foramuch as the aid County doth border upon Virginia, and is much of the ame Nature, We are content, and do grant, that the Inhabitants of aid County do hold their Lands of us, the Lords Proprietors, upon the ame Terms and Conditions that the Inhabitants of Virginia hold theirs; be it known unto all Men, by thee Preents, That the, the aid Lords and abolute Proprietors of the County within the Province aforeaid, have given, granted, and by thee Preents, do give and grant, full Power and Authority unto you, the aid Governor, by and with the Conent of out Council, or the major Part thereof, or to any Governor for the Time being, or that hall hereafter be by us appointed, full Power and Authority, by and with the Conent of our Council then being, or the major Part thereof, to convey and grant uch Proportions of Land, as, by out Intructions and Conceions, annexed to our Commiion, bearing Date in October, Anno Dom. 1667, we have appointed, to uch Perons as hall come into out aid County to plant or inhabit; to be held of us, our Heirs and Aigns, upon the same Terms and Conditions, that Land is at preent uually Granted in Virginia; any thing in our Intructions and Conceions aforeaid to the contrary, notwithtanding: And we do hereby Declare and Conent, that the Warrant to the Surveyor for laying out of aid Land, and the Return thereon, being Regitred, and alo the Grant of you our aid Governor and Council, that hall be where uch Land is due having the Seal of our Council, for the Time being, being Regitred, hall be good and effectual in Law, for the Enjoyment of aid Land or Plantation, and all the Benefits and Profits of, and in the ame, (except one half of all the Gold and Silver Mines) to the Party of whom it is granted, his Heirs and Aigns, forever, he or they performing the Conditions aforeaid.

GIVEN under our Hands, and Great Seal of our Province, the firt of May, Anno Dom. 1668.