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Liber A. M.

forfeited Lands to the end no survey of any of the said Lands
may be made by any of them for any other Persons and that
you permit no Grants for his Lordship of such Lands to pass
your Office without particular warrants or Instructions given or
to be given by his Lordship to that purpose under his Lord-
ships hand and Seal at Arms entred or to be entred upon
Record in your Office there and that you send his Lordship a
true Copy of the Record Attested under your hand of such
Lands as are Already and shall hereafter be from time to time
escheated or forfeited to his Lordship
6 That whereas his Lordship has heretofore Given several
Instructions to his Governor and Surveyor General there to
Cause two Mannors at least to be reserved in every County of
the said Prov^s for his Lordships use each Mannor Containing
at least six thous^d Acres of Good Land to be reserved in Con-
venient places and so to be forthwith entred upon Record
there in the Secretaries Office of the said Province his Lord-
ship doth hereby will and require you to make strict Search

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into all and every the said Records of the said Office and to
take special Notice and Recognizance of what mannors are
already so reserved entred upon Record and to send his Lord-
ship a true Copy of the said Records attested under your hand
of such Mannors as are already Reserved as aforesaid as you
shall find entred upon Record there in the Office
7 That in Case you find any part of his Lordships said
Instructions therein not hitherto observed or performed you do
then immediately acquaint the Governor and Surveyor General
therewith or any other of his Lordships Officers there to whom
the speedy Redress of such faults do belong and that you do
often mind them and press them to put the same in Execution
and that you send his Lordship Notice from time to time what
is or shall be done therein
8 That you use all Possible means to find out all such Lands
or Mannors as having been formerly Reserved for his Lord-
ships Use are not as yet entred upon Record or if they be are
notwithstanding imperfectly entred for want of distinct names
and Bounds assigned unto them or the quantities of Acres
they maintain you are therefore in such Cases hereby required
to Cause all such Mannors reserved for his Lordships use to
be named bounded and the quantity of Acres they Contain to
be ascertained by his Lordships Governor and Surveyor Gen-
eral or his deputy or deputies there and to be entred upon
Record in your said Office and to send a true Copy of all such
Records of the said Mannors unto his Lordship attested under
your hand and likewise to give his Lordship particular notice
from time to time of their Proceedings as well as your own
therein