The Council of the Company has decided to allow the use of twenty-five
acres of land for each and every child that comes into Virginia,
and all who are now here, or may come to live at the expense of
the Company, are to be educated in some good trade or profession,
in order that they may be able to support themselves when they have
come to the age of four and twenty years, or have served the time
of their apprenticeship, which is to be no less than seven years.
It is further decreed that all of those children when they become
of age or marry, whichever shall happen first, are to have freely
given and made over to them fifty acres of land apiece, which same
shall be in Virginia within the limits of the English plantation.
But, these children must be placed as apprentices under honest and
good masters within the grant made to the London Company, and shall
serve for seven years, or until they come to the age of twenty-four,
during which time their masters must bring them up in some trade
or business.
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