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individual than any of the others, and according to 
definite and well laid plans. Maryland does not show 
this to the same degree that Pennsylvania does, yet as 
early as the year of its founding, Lord Baltimore 
gave minute directions for the choice of the “Plan- 
tacon Site”; and further instructed, “That they 
cause all the Planters to build their houses in as decent 
and uniforme a maner as their abilities and the place 
will afford, & neere adioyning one to another, and for 
that purpose to cause streetes to be marked out where 
they intend to place the towne and to oblige every man 
to buyld one by another according to that rule and 
that they cause divisions of Land to be made adioyn¬ 
ing on the back sides of their houses and to be assigned 
unto them for gardens and such uses according to the 
proportion of every ones building and adventure and 
as the conveniency of the place will afford which his 
Lordship referreth to their discretion, but is desirous 
to have a particular account from them what they do 
in it, that his Lo pp may be satisfied that every man 
hath iustice done unto him.” Further on they are in¬ 
structed to “imploy their servants in planting of suf¬ 
ficient quantity of come and other provision of vic- 
tuall and that they do not suffer them to plant any 
other comodity whatsoever before that be done in suf¬ 
ficient proportion which they are to observe yearly.” 
This strict injunction with regard to the planting 
