Assembly Proceedings, May — June 1674. 393

severall Deputy surveyors to the great damage detriment &
vexacon of the good people of this Province —
Bee itt therefore Enacted by the Right Hon^ble the Lord Pro-
prietary by and with the advice and Consent of the upper &
Lower houses of this present Generall Assembly that from and
after the Publicacon hereof the Surveyor Generall nor any of
his Deputies for the time being shall aske demand take or
Receive any other fee gratuity or Reward for any matter Con-
cerning the office of a surveyor then such as are by this pre-
sent act provided for allowed & Expressed that is to say for
surveying of any plott of Ground of one hundred acres or
vnder one pound of Tobacco per acre if the plott be between
one hundred & two hundred Acres then for the first one hun-
dred acres as aforesaid and for all above halfe a pound of To-
bacco p acre if between two hundred and five hundred acres
then for the first two hundred Acres as before and for all aboue
one quarter of a pound of Tobacco p acre if itt be between
five hundred and one thousand acres then for the first five hun-
dred as aforesaid and for any quantity above five hundred acres
one pound of Tobacco for every tenn acres and noe more for
entring a survey vpon the booke five pounds of Tobacco for
Certifyeing the same five pounds of Tobacco for describeing
a plott of the ground surveyed if itt be one hundred acres or
vnder tenn pounds of Tobacco if above one hundred Acres
then five pounds of Tobacco for every hundred acres for goe-
ing to make such survey if the place be distant from his vsuall
habitacon twenty Miles or vnder forty pounds of Tobacco if
aboue twenty & under forty miles Eighty pounds of Tobacco
and soe pro rato for any greater quantity and that for every
resurvey to be made for any person whatsoever such resurvey
being made with a Chaine Circumferenter with Sights and
other Instruments for that purpose necessary the surveyor Gen-
erall or his Deputy respectively may aske demand take and
Receive double the fees before in this Act provided and no
more.
And Bee itt further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that
all such fees as aforesaid so earned by the Surveyor or his
Deputy or Deputies Respectively shall and may be Leavyed
by way of Execucon vpon the body or goods of any person or
persons delaying or refuseing payment thereof the surveyor
Generall or such Deputy or Deputies as aforesaid takeing
their Corporall Oath to the truth of his or their accompts
before the Gouernour Chancellor or secretary of this Prouince
for the time being.

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And be itt further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that
the Surveyor Generall or his Deputy shall keepe a booke of
all the Surveys that he or they shall make together with faire

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