488 Assembly Proceedings, June 29-July 22, 1699.

Lib. L. L.

taker up then and there att the takeing up did marke a Tree
for the beginning of the Second Tract, and if the Second Tract
be said to bound upon the first yet it shall not be allowed to
do so, to the prejudice of any Latter Survey but may Come to
its beginning by its prescribed line or lines paralell to the
Tract on which its said to bound and the Land betwixt may
be Taken up by a Comon Warrant as in the Tenth Example
by which all Cases Paralell may be adjudged & Determined
If a Tract of Land be described to lye on a Certein side of a
River Creek Branch with a Stream or Cove and at Last by
Generall Bounds is described to be bounded by the said River
Creek &c and the first Line is drawn from the River Creek
&c. into the Woods and from the River &c. And there are
other Courses prescribed, And att Last Come to the River &c.
Yett if any of the former Courses Come to the River Branch

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or Cove the Courses shall there Determine and thence by the
Water be bounded and shall not pass over, but the Owner shall
be Content with what Land is between such Lines and the water
be it never so little and apply himselfe (if he please) to his
Lordshipps favour for the benefitt of his Warrant as in the
twelfth Example. If a Tract of Land be described to begin
att a Certein Tree and to run a Certein Course Expressing no
Certein Number of Perches till it Intersect another Tract of
Land which Course goes Clear from such Lands and no
Determinate number of Perches to Limitt the Lines, 'tis a
Voyd Survey and shall be Deemed to include nothing by one
part of one side & an other Part of an other side of a River
Creek Branch or Cove &c If a Tract of Land begin att a Cer-
tein Markt Tree running to the head of a Branch Creek or
Cove it shall be Determined as aforesaid is described in such
like Cases And then if for more breadth it begin Againe att
the head of the said River Creek branch or Cove & on the
other side thereof the beginning on the other Side shall be
adjudged to be right Opposite to the ending of the first side
Except there be a Markt Tree Exprest on the second Side to
regulate that part otherwise If one Tract of Land be so laid
out and the one part of it lyes on the one Side of a former
Survey, and an other part of it lyes on the other side of the
former Survey and pt is taken away by the said former Sur-

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vey yet the Owner of the second Tract shall hold all that is
Clear of the former Survey and all former Surveys whatsoever
on both sides for the Land is not Granted Pearch by Pearch
as the Surveyor Measures it but the Grant is uno flatu all att
once of every Part of it And if any mans marked Tree or
Trees stand within an other mans Land the Owner of the said
Land in whose Land the said Trees stand shall not on any
pretence Cutt Down or destroy the said Tree or Trees Except