. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. origin of this practiceof bestowing these fifty acres of land upon bond servants,have been unavailing. There are many allusions to itscattered throughout the laws regulating the affairs of theProvince, as well as among more recent writers, but it isalways alluded to as an already existing law. The originaldecree or place of record is nowhere revealed. For in-stance, in Penns Conditionsand Concessions the seventhsection reads as follows : Thatfor every Fifty Acres that shallbe allotted to a Servant at theEnd of his* Service, his Quitrentshall
. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. origin of this practiceof bestowing these fifty acres of land upon bond servants,have been unavailing. There are many allusions to itscattered throughout the laws regulating the affairs of theProvince, as well as among more recent writers, but it isalways alluded to as an already existing law. The originaldecree or place of record is nowhere revealed. For in-stance, in Penns Conditionsand Concessions the seventhsection reads as follows : Thatfor every Fifty Acres that shallbe allotted to a Servant at theEnd of his* Service, his Quitrentshall be Two Shillings fer An-num, and the Master or Ownerof the Servant, when he shalltake up the other Fifty Acres,his Quitrent shall be Four Shil-lings by the Year, or if theMaster of the Servant (by rea-son in the Indentures he is soobliged to do) allot out to theServant Fifty Acres in his ownDivision, the said Master shall have on Demand allotted tohim from the Governor, the One Hundred Acres at thechief Rent of Six Shillings fer Grahame. GOURD FOR SEINE FLOAT. 15 5 Certain Conditions and Concessions agreed upon by William Penn, Pro-prietary and Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania, and those who are theAdventurers and Purchasers in the same Province, the Eleventh of July, OneThousand Six Hundred and Eighty One. Conditions to Renters. 269 makes an emphatic declaration about such a law in a para-graph discussing this very article in the Conditions Benjamin Furley, the English Quaker and a life-longfriend of Penn, whose principal agent he was for the saleof lands in the newly acquired Province, in a letter to afriend sets forth under date of March 6, 1684, certain ex-planations concerning the conditions granted to other things he has a paragraph relative to To those who have enough money to pay the expenseof their passage as well for themselves as for their wives,children, and servants, but upon their arrival have no morem
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