No Person can lease out his House or Lot
to another, without Licence for that Purpose; that the Colony may not be ruined
by Absentees receiving, and spending their Rents elsewhere. Therefore
each Man must cultivate the same by himself or Servants.
And no Person can alienate his Land, or any Part, or any Term, Estate, or
Interest therein, to any other Persons or Persons, without special Licence for
that Purpose; to prevent the uniting or dividing the Lots.
If any of the Land so granted shall not be planted, cleared or fenced with a
Worm-fence or Pails six Feet high, during the Space of ten Years from the Date
of the Grant; then every Part thereof not planted, cleared, or fenced as
aforesaid, shall belong to the Trust, and the Grant, as to such Parts, shall be
void.
There is reserved for the Support of the Colony, a Rent-charge for ever of two
Shillings Sterling Money for each fifty Acres; the Payment of
which is not to commence until ten Years after the Grant.
The Wives of the Freeholders, in case they should survive their Husbands, are,
during their Lives, entitled to the Mansion-house, and one half of the Lands
improved by their Husbands; that is to say, inclosed with a Fence of six Feet
high.
All Forfeitures for Non-residence, High-Treason, Felonies, etc., are to the
Trustees for the Use and Benefit of the Colony.
Begun the 15th of October, 1735.
Negroes and Rum are prohibited to be used
in the said Colony; and Trade with the Indians, unless
licens’d.
None are to have the Benefit of being sent upon the Charity in the manner
above-mention; but,
1. Such as are in decayed Circumstances, and thereby disabled from following
any Business in England; and who, if in Debt, must have Leave
from their Creditors to go.
2. Such as have numerous Families of Children, if assisted by their respective
Parishes, and recommended by the Minister, Church-wardens and Overseers
thereof.
The Trustees do expect to have a good Character of the said Persons given;
because no Drunkards, or other notoriously vicious Persons will be taken.
And for the better enabling the said Persons to build the new Town, and clear
their Lands, the Trustees will give Leave to every Freeholder to take over with
him one Male Servant, or Apprentice, of the Age of eighteen Years and upwards,
to be bound for not less than four Years; and will by way of Loan to such
Freeholder, advance the Charges of Passage for such Servant or Apprentice, and
of furnishing him with the Cloathing and Provision hereafter mentioned; to be
delivered in such Proportions, and at such Times as the Trust shall think
proper; viz. with
A Pallias, and Bolster, and Blanket for
Bedding.
A Frock and
Trowzers of Linsey Woolsey, a
Shirt and Frock, and Trowzers of
Osnabrigs,
A Voyage to Georgia;
A Pair of Shoes from England, and two Pair of Country Shoes.
And 200 Pounds of Meat, and 342 Pounds of Rice, Pease, or Indian Corn for Food for a Year.
The Expence of which Passage, Cloathing, and Provision, is to be repaid the
Trustees by the Master, within the third Year from their Embarkation from England.
And to each Man-servant, and the Heirs Male of his Body for ever, after the
Expiration of his Service, upon a Certificate from his Master of his having
served well, will be granted Twenty Acres of Land, under such Rents and
Agreements as shall have been then last granted to any others Men-servants in
like Circumstances.
PROVIDED, that in case any Person shall disobey such Orders as they shall
receive, a Deduction shall be made of the Whole, or any Part of the above
Provisions.
Signed by Order
of the Common-Council of the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in
America, this Second Day of July, 1735.
Benj. Martyn, Secretary.
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