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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1684-89. 477
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by me nominated were Mr Thomas Parslon, Mr Jonah Whin-
field, and Mr Gustavus White as witness my hand this 23d of
Aprill 1686.
the mark of
Henry H Mackdowell
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Liber B.
P. R. O.
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Nath: Ashcorn's Fine
500lbs Tob. remitted.
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Ordered that the fine of five hundred
nounds of Tobacco imposed bv the Comrs
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of Calvert County Court upon Nathaniel Ashcorn for not re-
turning the list of taxables, be, and the same hereby is remitted
and wholly taken off and the said Ashcorn from thence fully
acquitted and discharged.
The honble Coll. Henry Digges and Majr Nicholas Sewall
Principall Secretarys of this Province produce to the board
severall Rules necessary to be observed in their office for
Lands, whereof the desire, the approbation & the confirmation
of the Councill, if it may seem meete and reasonably. They
were ordered to be read and are as followeth—viz.
Some particular heads of such Rules as ought more
strictly to be observed in the Land Office.
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Rules for the
Land Office
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That every Deputy Surveyor shall without faile
make due Returnes of all assignments of warrants
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and Certificates (togetner along with the Certificates) into tne
Land office, which thing has hitherto been neglected, to the
great delay of business.
That in their Certificates they shall mention the courses and
distances more fully and plainly than heretofore they have used,
and likewise duely returne along with their surveys, fair platts
to every Certificate.
That every Deputy Surveyor shall returne his Certificate in
due time into the Deputy Surveyor Generall's Office to be ex-
amined, and for the quicker Expedition of business shall attend
the land office at St Maries more duely than heretofore they
have used (it being his Lordship's particular order) or otherwise
keepe due correspondence by carefull messengers, if business or
other accidents will not permitt their own attendance.
That noe person or persons shall enter a caveat against the
land of another to obstruct the issuing of any pattent, without
first giving good reasons to the Secretarys for the time being
for their soe doeing.
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That noe Pattents shall goe out of the Land Office, without
the owners of such Pattents come and demand them or other-
wise send particular order by some other persons, The said
persons soe imployed giveing their receipts for them.
That upon every assignment of any warrant or Certificate
for Land to a Forreigner and that such Forreigners by virtue
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