Part 26 (1/2)

T H A T where any Number of Purchasers, more or less, whose Number of Acres amounts to _five_ or _ten thousand_ Acres, desire to sit together in a Lot or Towns.h.i.+p, they shall have their Lot or Towns.h.i.+p cast together, in such Places as have convenient Harbours or navigable Rivers attending it, if such can be found; and in case any one or more Purchasers plant not according to Agreement in this Concession, to the Prejudice of others of the same Towns.h.i.+p, upon Complaint thereof made to the Governor or his Deputy, with a.s.sistance, they may award (if they see Cause) that the complaining Purchaser may, paying the Survey-Money, and Purchase-Money, and Interest thereof, be ent.i.tled, inrolled and lawfully invested in the Lands so not seated.

V.

T H A T 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 _five hundred_ Acres purchased, if the Place will allow it.

VI.

T H A T 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, Water-courses, Quarries, Mines and Minerals (except Mines Royal) shall be freely and fully enjoyed, and wholly by the Purchasers, into whose Lot they fall.

VII.

T H A T for every _fifty_ Acres that shall be allotted to a Servant at the End of his Service, his Quit-Rent shall be _two s.h.i.+llings per Annum_, and the Master or Owner of the Servant, when he shall take up the other _fifty_ Acres, his Quit-Rent shall be _four s.h.i.+llings_ 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 _fifty_ Acres in his own Division, the said Master shall have on Demand allotted him, from the Governor, the _one hundred_ Acres at the chief Rent of _six s.h.i.+llings per Annum_.

VIII.

A N D 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 Discoverer have one _fifth_, the Owner of the Soil (if not the Discoverer) a _tenth_ Part, the Governor _two fifths_, and the rest to the publick Treasury, saving to the King the Share reserved by Patent.

IX.

I N every _hundred thousand_ Acres, the Governor and Proprietary, by Lot, reserveth _ten_ to himself, what shall lie but in one Place.

X.

T H A T every Man shall be bound to plant or man so much of his Share of Land as shall be set out and surveyed, within _three_ 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.

T H E R E shall be no buying and selling, be it with an _Indian_, or one among another, of any Goods to be exported, but what shall be performed in publick Market, when such Places shall be set apart or erected, where they shall pa.s.s the publick 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 publick Treasury of the Province, whether it be the Merchandize of the _Indian_, or that of the Planters.

XII.

A N D F O R A S M U C H as it is usual with the Planters, to over-reach the poor Natives of the Country in Trade, by Goods not being good of the Kind, or debased with Mixtures, with which they are sensibly aggrieved, it is agreed, whatever is sold to the _Indians_, in Consideration of their Furs, shall be sold in the Market-Place, and there suffer the Test, whether good or bad; if good, to pa.s.s; if not good, not to be sold for good, that the Natives may not be abused nor provoked.

XIII.

T H A T no Man shall by any Ways or Means, in Word or Deed, affront or wrong any _Indian_, but he shall incur the same Penalty of the Law, as if he had committed it against his Fellow-Planter; and if any _Indian_ shall abuse, in Word or Deed, any Planter of this Province, that he shall not be his own Judge upon the _Indian_, but he shall make his Complaint to the Governor of the Province, or his Lieutenant or Deputy, or some inferior Magistrate near him, who shall, to the utmost of his Power, take Care with the King of the said _Indian_, that all reasonable Satisfaction be made to the said injured Planter.

XIV.

T H A T all Differences between the Planters and the Natives, shall also be ended by _twelve_ Men, that is, by _six_ Planters and _six_ Natives, that so we may live friendly together as much as in us lieth, preventing all Occasions of Heart-burnings and Mischief.