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[1178] Penn offered on certain conditions fifty acres of land to every servant who came with the first adventurers, and made adequate provisions in the Charter of Laws for the servants’ protection against being cheated or abused in any way by dishonest masters. For a discussion of indentured servants in Pennsylvania, see Bolles, Pennsylvania, Province and State, ii, pp. 173–182; Diffenderffer, German Immigration into Pennsylvania, pt. iii; Pennsylvania Magazine of History, xxx, p. 436; xxxi, p. 83; Historical Addresses and Papers of Lancaster Historical Society, x, p. 331; Pennsylvania Colonial Records, i, iii, iv, vi, vii, ix, x, xi. In 1676, the Duke of York provided for the government, protection, and final dismissal of bond servants in Delaware. Pennsylvania German Society Proceedings, x, pp. 223–224.