A N D for the Encouragement of such as are ingenious and willing to
search out Gold and Silver Mines in this Province, it is hereby agreed,
that they have Liberty to bore and dig in any Man's Property, fully
paying the Damage done; and in case a Discovery should be made, that the
Discoverer have one _fifth_, the Owner of the Soil (if not the
Discoverer) a _tenth_ Part, the Governor _two fifths_, and the rest to
the publick Treasury, saving to the King the Share reserved by Patent.