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his Deputy, with assistance, they may award (if they see cause) that the 

 complaining purchaser may, paying the survey money, and purchase 

 money, and interest thereof, be entitled, enrolled and lawfully invested, 

 in the lands so not seated. 



V. That the proportion of lands, that shall be laid out in the first great 

 town, or city, for every purchaser, shall be after the proportion of ten 

 acres for every Jive hundred acres purchased, if the place will allow it. 



VI. That notwithstanding there be no mention made, in the several 

 deeds made to the purchasers; yet the said William Penn does accord 

 and declare, that all rivers, rivulets, woods, and underwoods, waters, 

 watercourses, quarries, mines, and minerals, (except mines royal) shall be 

 freely and fully enjoyed, and wholly by the purchasers, into whose lot 

 they fall. 



YII. That, for every fifly acres, that shall be allotted to a servant, at 

 the end of his service, his quit-rent shall be two shillings per annum, and 

 the master, or owner of the servant, when he shall take up the other /?/"/// 

 acres, his quit-rent, shall he four shillings by the year, or, if the master of 

 the servant (by reason in the indentures he is so obliged to do) allot out 

 to the servant Jiff y acres in his own division, the said master shall have, 

 on demand, allotted him, from the Governor, the owe hundred acres, at the 

 chief rent of six shillings per annum. 



VIII. And, for the encouragement of such as are ingenious and willing 

 to search out gold and silver mines in this province, it is hereby agreed, 

 that they have liberty to bore and dig in any man's property, fully paying 

 the damage done ; and in case a discovery should be made, that the dis- 

 coverer have one-Jifth, the owner of the soil (if not the discoverer) a tenth 

 part, the Governor two-Jifths, and the rest to the public treasury, saving 

 to the king the share reserved by patent. 



IX. In every hundred thousand acres, the Governor and Proprietary, 

 by lot, reserveth ten to himself, what shall lie but in one place. 



X. That every man shall be bound to plant, or man, so much of his 

 share of land as shall be set out and surveyed, within tliree years after it 

 is so set out and surveyed, or else it shall be lawful for new comers to be 

 settled thereupon, paying to them their survey money, and they go up 

 higher for their shares. 



XI. There shall be no buying and selling, be it with an Indian, or oue 

 among another, of any goods to be exported, but what shall be performed 

 in public market, when such places shall be set ajjart, or erected, where 

 they shall pass the public stamp, or mark. If bad ware, and prized as 

 good, or deceitful in proportion or weight, to forfeit the value, as if good 

 and full weight and proportion, to the public treasury of this province, 

 whether it be the merchandize of the Indian, or that of the })lanters. 



XII. And forasmuch, as it is usual with the planters to over-reach the 



