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10: Where Two or more psons shall be equally concern'd
in, or have right to any Tract or Tracts of Land, and shall
jointly desire a speciall warrant to resurvey and equally divide

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the same betweene them by the directions of a Jury of the
Vicinity or otherwise, You may in such cases, and have hereby
power given you upon such request made grant such warrant
as is desired
11: Where it shall be discovered or made knowne unto
you that any Grant or Pattent hath' heretofore been illegally or
Surreptitiously obteined; or if any Pattent shall at any time
hereafter be soe obteined, you may and are hereby required
to ord^r Scire facias to issue forth of our Chancery Court of
Records, to the Pattentee, or other p^rsent Owner and Possesso^r
thereof, to shew cause why the same should not be vacated:
And if the said Land shall be adjudged and condemned unto
us for the reasons aforesaid, you may by Letters Pattents or
otherwise give grant or dispose of the same, to the discoverer
thereof, or other person or persons Suito^r or Suito^rs to you for
the same, upon such conditions and tearmes as to you shall
seeme meete.
12: Vpon the death or remooveall of the Survey^rGeneralI
(to whom or his Dep^ties all speciall warrants have been and
are to be directed) want of convenient tyme, or other Speciall
occasion happening and evidently appeareing, you may cause
and give ord^r for the renewing or continueing of any speciall
warrant, warrant of Resurvey or other ord^r of Councill as the
Case shall require
13: Any Person or Persons takeing up upon conditions of
Plantation pformed, or upon Speciall or Conditionall warrant
from us or our Councill duely obteined any Tract or Quantity
of Land, falling within a former Survey or Reserve for us
made, may upon supplication have warrant granted him or
them to make good the like Quantity upon other waste Land
in any part of the Province
14: Conditions of plantation performed, and by the care-
lessness negligence or ignorance of the Clark of the Office
omitted to be duely entred upon Record, may (upon due
proofe made, and other undeniable Testimony to you appeare-
ing) be ratifyed, confirmed, approoved, and made good by yo^r
ord^r to the benefitt of the party concerned.
15: Noe Advantage shall be taken by lapse of time in sue-
ing forth Pattents for Land taken up upon conditions of plan-
tation in all respects otherwise pformed; where it shall appeare
that the same has happened by default of the Clerk of the

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Office, negligence of the Surveyo^r or ignorance of the party
concerned, and in reasonable time taken notice of, and sought
to be redressed. And in case the same shall happen (through

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