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<DATE>2010-07-04</DATE>
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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<HEAD><HI>THE CONDITIONS FOR</HI> NEW-PLANTERS In the Territories of His <HI>ROYAL HIGHNES THE</HI> DUKE OF YORK</HEAD>
<P>_THE Purcha&s;es are to be made from the <HI>Indian Sachims</HI> and to be Recorded before the <HI>Governour.</HI></P>
<P>The Purcha&s;ers are not to pay for their liberty of purcha&s;ing to the <HI>Governour.</HI></P>
<P>The Purcha&s;ers are to &s;et out a Town, and Inhabit together.</P>
<P>No Purcha&s;er &s;hall at any time contract for him&s;elf with any <HI>Sachim,</HI> without con&s;ent of his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;ociates: or &s;pecial Warrant from the <HI>Governour?</HI></P>
<P>The Purcha&s;ers are free from all manner of A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments or Rates for five years after their Town-plot is &s;et out, and when the five years are expired, they &s;hall only be liable to th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> publick Rates, and Payments according to the Cu&s;tome of other Inhabitants both <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>Dutch.</HI></P>
<P>All Lands thus Purcha&s;ed, and po&s;&s;e&s;t &s;hall remain to the Purcha&s;ers, and their Heires, as free Lands to di&s;po&s;e of as they plea&s;e.</P>
<P>In all Territories of his ROYAL HIGHNES, Liberty of Con&s;cience is allowed, Provided &s;uch Liberty is not converted to Licentiou&s;ne&s;s, or the di&s;turbance of others, in the exerci&s;e of the Prote&s;tant Religion.</P>
<P>The &s;everal Town&s;hips have liberty to make their peculiar Laws, and Deciding all &s;mall Cau&s;es within them&s;elves.</P>
<P>The Lands which I intend &s;hall be fir&s;t Planted, are tho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">e upon the We&s;t &s;ide of <HI>Hud&s;on-River,</HI> at, or adjoyning to the <HI>Sopes,</HI> but if any number of men &s;ufficient for two or three, or more Towns, &s;hall de&s;ire to plant upon any other Lands they &s;hall have all due encouragement proportionable to their Quality, and undertakings.</P>
<P>Every Town&s;hip is Obliged to pay their <HI>Mini&s;ter,</HI> according to &s;uch agreement as they &s;hall make with him, and no man to refu&s;e his Proportion, the <HI>Mini&s;ters</HI> being elected by the Major part of the Hou&s;eholders Inhabitants of the <HI>Town.</HI></P>
<P>Every Town&s;hip hath the free choice of all their officers both Civil, and Military, and all men who &s;hall take the Oath of Allegiance to his <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> and are not Servants, or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ay-labour<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">s&punc; but are admitted to enjoy <HI>Town-lotts</HI> are e&s;teemed freemen of the Juri&s;diction, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">nd cannot forfeit the &s;ame without due proce&s;s in Law.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>R. Nicolls.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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