Section II Time for Payment by such as have subscribed.
Allowance to such Persons of proportionable Number of Two Million and a Half of Acres.
And the better to invite all well affected persons Bodies Politique and Corporate to the bringing in of presentmoney for this service which will be the most effectuall meanes under God for the speedy subduing of the saidRebels. Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person and persons of the English Scotish Irish or Dutch Nation being of the Protestant Religion and every Body Politique or Corporate in thisRealme which hath at any time heretofore underwritten or have caused to be underwritten or shall underwriteor cause to be underwritten any su[m]m of money to the purposes in all or any of the said Acts mentioned and hath orshall have according to the times and places in the said Acts limited paid in a fourth part or more of the same andshall pay in or cause to be paid in the residue of the su[m]m so underwritten before the said twentieth day of JulyAnd every such person or body politique which shall underwrite or cause to be underwritten to the purposes aforesaidany summ of money by vertue of this Act at the said Chamber X1of London and shall pay in or cause to be paid in thewhole su[m]m which he or they shall soe underwrite or cause to be underwritten unto the said four persons or any twoof them who are to give Receipts for the same as aforesaid and to enter the summs and times of subscription beforethe said twentieth of July shall have to all and every such person and persons Bodies Politique and Corporate theireHeires Successors and Assignes respectively a proportionable number of Acres out of the two millions and halfe ofAcres in the said former Act mentioned with Woods Boggs Loughes and barren Mountaines cast in over and abovewith the Houses and Edifices thereupon built according to the su[m]m so underwritten and paid in which saidproportionable number of Acres shall be measured out and enjoyed according to the Plantation measure (that is tosay) every Acre thereof shall consist of eightscore Pearches or Poles and every Pearch or Pole shall consist of oneand twentie foot and shall enjoye the said proportionable number of Acres under the same Conditions Limitationsand Provisions and in as large and beneficiall manner to all intents and purposes as any other underwriter which shallpay in his money underwritten at four payments shall enjoye his proportionable number of English Acres Any thingin the said Acts or either of them conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding
Annotations
Editorial notes
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