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Poffeffion.-Manner of laying out a tenth Lot for the Conductor.Also two more Lots for Publick Ujes. Likewife ten other Publick Lots for every bundred private Lots.How to be appropriated. General Afýlum for Males and Females, and for married Perfons.-Hofpital for Sick. Penitentiary Lot.-Glebe Land.-No Layman to have Benefit from the Glebe.-Limitation of the Cure of Souls.Lot for Parish Clerks and Beadles.-Under Beadles or Trumpeters.—Lot for a Town Clerk.Lot for twoo Affiftant Clerks of the Hundred-One referved Lot to make good Deficiencies. Allowance of Land to Apprentices and indentured Servants.Sons of Settler's bow to purchase Land.-Indentured Servants allowed to redeem the Terms of Service and bow.And to purchafe Land by Labour.

THE money which has been paid into the hands of the truffees to procure land for the fettlement fhall be veftéd in fuch articles of merchandize, as are deemed F

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most proper for prefents to the petty chiefs or Cabo-fieurs, on the African coast, and shall be difpofed of among them to the beft advantage, to engage their peaceable consent to admit the new fettlers, and to give up to them a sufficient tract of uninhabited land, bordering on the fea, or on fome navigable river or creek where fresh water alfo may be procured, with every other natural accommodation fuitable and neceffary for a proper fettlement. But in treating for the land, the Cabo-fieurs or chiefs shall be informed, as a neceffary part of the agreement, that the land which they are requested to give up to the new fetlers, is intended to be dignified with the title and privileges of a land of freedom, like England, where no man can be a flave; for as foon as a flave fets foot on English ground, he immediately becomes free, provided, he conforms him

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felf to the laws of the state. And therefore, if any flave who has escaped from his mafter, (in the neighbouring country, where flavery is allowed,) should fairly get within the boundary of the new fettlement, he is afterwards to be confidered as a free man. And no man must pursue him to take him away by force, nor be offended with the new fettlers for refusing to deliver him up: because they are indifpenfably required by the laws of God, and of England, to protect the flave that has escaped from bis mafter. (See this further explained under the head of freedom.) This previous declaration is abfolutely necessary to be made, as one means of avoiding future difputes with the neighbouring inhabitants. And in order that as much land as poffible may be procured for the new settlement by the abovementioned presents, the agent or agents, for the fettlers, and every

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every individual among them, fhall be reftrained from purchafing or making any agreement whatever for separate pripate property in land (on pain of forfeiting all right to a fhare in the profits of the fettlement) until an agreement is made and concluded for the whole common stock of land: and until the bounds of it are actually marked out and made known to the whole body of fettlers. An invoice fhall be made of all the articles for prefents, in which the money intended for the purchase of land was invested; fo that if any articles remain more than are neceffary for the purpose, they fhall be deemed a part of the common stock, and shall be registered accordingly. The whole body of original fettlers that go together from England above the age of fixteen years, whether male or female, apprentice, or indentured servant, fhall be equally entitled to all the land within the bounds of the fettlement;

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fettlement; fubject, however, to the rules hereafter expreffed for the appropriation of it, from time to time when wanted: and all unappropriated land thall be deemed common. No land shall be appropriated but by the free confent of a majority of the fettlers, after a full difcuffion of the reafons in the common council, or folkmote.

When the agent-conductor fhall have carefully viewed and confidered the tract of country thus vefted in the community of fettlers, he shall recommend to them a proper fituation for the firft encampment and principal township, as nearly in the center of their territory as the neceffary accommodations of a constant fupply of fresh water, and a navigable communication with the fea will permit: and he fhall lay before the community his reafons for the choice, and if any other perfon or perfons fhould propose different

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