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of the Inhabitants of those remote Counties, to Grant Warrants
for land (according to his Ldps Conditions) in theire Severall
Counties aforesaid, with further directions in the Said Com-
missions contained, And whereas I am Given to understand
that not onely the transmitting of Such Warr^ts demands and
Assignments into the Secretaries office here (as by the Said
Commissions is directed) is Somewhat Neglected, but also the
due return of the Certificates of Survey thereupon, to the Great
prejudice not only of his Ldp in his Rents due upon Such
Surveyes, but also to the Great wrong and abuse of the Said
Secretaries office, and likely in Short time to produce much
confusion and inconvenience, ffor prevention whereof, These
are in the Name of the keepers of the Liberties of England by
Authority of Parliament, and as Governour here under his Said
Ldp, to declare the Said Commissions or any other for that
purpose Soe by me Granted to the Said Cap^t Robert Vaughan
and m^r Edward LLoyd as aforesaid to be void and Null, And
that no Warr^t or Warrants for land be thereupon Granted by
them or either of them after the last of this present month of
december. ffurther hereby willing and requiring as well the
Said Cap^t Vaughan and m^r LLoyd as also his Ldps Surveyor
Generall, That they the Said Cap^t Vaughan and m^r LLoyd doe
cause transcripts of all Such demands or Tittles of land
Assignm^ts and Warrants within their Severall Counties as are
not yet transmitted into the Secretaries office to be Speedily
transmitted thither there to be Entred And that the Said Sur-
veyor Generall make Speedy returne into the Secretaries office
of all Such Certificates of Surveys by him already made by
Vertue of any Warrant w^tSoever not yet returned, And that
he presume not for the future to Survey any land within this
Province for any Adventurer or planter, to be granted upon his

Liber B.

Ldps Condicons of Plantation without Some Warrant from my
Self or by authority from me or other Speciall Warrant or
direction from his Said Ldp here published for his Soe doeing,
his the Said Surveyors former irregular & unwarrantable pro-
ceedings herein having occasioned much trouble and incon-
venience to the great abuse both of his Ldps authority and the
Inhabitants. And hereof you the Said Cap^t Robert Vaughan,
m^r Lloyd and m^r Robert Clarke his Ldps Said Surveyor Gen
are required to take due Notice, and to Comply in all things
with the directions herein before Given, you and every of you
respectively, as you will Answer the Contrary. Given at S^t
Maries this 18^th day of december Anno Dni 1652.
William Stone

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