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Savannah received new Resolutions for land grants
Source: A True and Historical Narrative of the Colony of Georgia in America #173
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From 1741 A True and Historical Narrative edited by Amy ALTHOUGH the Trustees say in their Answer to the Representation That they should think themselves very unfit for the Trust reposed in them should they by an irrational Attempt alter the Entail of Lands; yet not one Month after we had received the aforesaid Answer, over comes the following Paper: [1739-8-28 RESOLUTIONS RELATING TO THE GRANTS AND TENURE OF LANDS] WE believe this Paper will perplex most People, who have not thoroughly studied the Law, to make Sense of it; and as there were no Lawyers in Georgia, it would seem as if it had been sent over with no other intention than that it should not be understood; and indeed it rather tended to add to the Confusions in the Colony, than to promote the Benefit of it. Hardly anybody in Georgia could understand the new resolution We can only assure the Reader, that it had no good Effect in Georgia. It was kept from the People as much as possible, except that a fictitious Abridgment of it with the same Title and the same Way signed was publicly exhibited in Writing. But this was a needless Caution, for not One in Twenty of them would have understood any one Paragraph of it.
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