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his Lordship has not yet appointed any Surveyors Generall
Consequently there can be no Deputy Surveyors tho he goes
further and offers as an answer thereto that the Lord Propry
and the Lord Guilford his Guardian have sent in twelve
Comcons for Surveyrs with directions to grant them to protes-
tants in such Countys where his Lordships Surveyrs places
were usually Exercised by Protestants while the Government
was in the Crown, and that upon the death or Removall of
such Surveyors or any other officer or officers in offices
usually held by protestants none should be putt in their places
but protestants, But that none of the said Comissions are yet
Issued Because Mr Walter Pye & Mr Henry Sewall have the
Distribution of the said Comissions haveing mett with some
disappointments therein from the Governmt (as they say) ffor
which reason his Lordship and the people of this Province
(Mr Carroll says) suffer much Detriment, and the land office
is in effect thereby shutt up for the Issueing warrants for
takeing up lands without Surveyrs to execute them would be
but a charge to no purpose. So that Mr Carrolls meaning
may be understood that those Surveyor's Comcons should be
granted to protestants if in such Countys protestants had
usually Excercised them; but what if Papists ever Imployed
them is not this a Sufficient Salvo that will square with his
answer to Comissionate a papist to such Countys where those
Comissions were ever held by Papists and then it would be
gladly known which of the Twelve Countys he reserves
purely for a protestant Surveyr that has not had a papist in
that office unless Queen Annes County and Quere that.
As to the Disappointment Mr Pye and Mr Sewall have mett
with from the Governmt It is not known what is meant
unless they have reason to think the oaths for security of the
Governmt will be offered them which is Supposed they take to
be the Disappointment and which if they have no Comissions
(as Mr Carroll says they have not) they need not be appre-
hensive of.
Lastly as to his Lordship and the people receiveing Detri-
ment by such Disappointment It must necessarily lye at their
Doors who refuse to grant Comissions to such who will
Qualifie them selves for his Lordships service and the trust
reposed in them and not in those whose duty it is to put the
laws in Execution
A Bill for Confirming three several tracts of land lyeing in
Annarundell County to Susannah Johnston her heirs and
assignes for ever which was read the first of August 1716 the
first & second times by especial order and will pass.
Ordered to be so Endorsed.
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