Part IV: For the better security...For the better security of the Propriators and all the Inhabitants
1. They are not to impose nor suffer to be imposed any Taxe Custome Subsidie Talladge, Assessment, or any other duty whatsoever upon any colour or pretence upon the said Province and inhabitants thereof other then what shall be imposed by the Authority and consent of the generall Assembly and then only in manner as aforesaid.
2. They are to take care that Land quietlie held planted and possessed seaven years after its being first duely Surveyed by the Surveyor Generall or his Order shall not be subject to any reveiw re-survey or alterac'on of bounds on what pretence soever by any of us or any officer or Minister under us.
3. They are to take care that noe man if his Cattell Stray Range or Graze on any Ground within the said Province not actually appropriated or sett out to perticular persons shall be lyable to pay any Trespasse for the same to us our heires &c: Provided that Custome of Com'ons be not thereby pretended to; nor any person hindred from taking up and appropriating any Lands soe grased upon, And that noe person doe purposely suffer his Cattle to graze on such Lands.
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