II.

T H A T every Inhabitant in the said Province, that is or shall be a

Purchaser of one hundred Acres of Land, or upwards, his Heirs and

Assigns, and every Person who shall have paid his Passage, and taken up

one hundred Acres of Land at one Penny an Acre, and have cultivated ten

Acres thereof; and every Person that hath been a Servant or Bondsman,

and is free by his Service, that shall have taken up his fifty Acres of

Land, and cultivated twenty thereof; and every Inhabitant, Artificer, or

other Resident in the said Province, that pays Scot and Lot to the

Governments shall be deemed and accounted a Freeman of the said

Province: And every such Person shall and may be capable of electing, or

being elected Representatives of the People in provincial Council or

general Assembly in the said Province.

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