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run or made, nor will 1 sell or assign any Warrant, or share,
or part of any Warrant to be executed in the said County
during the time of my acting as assistant as aforesaid.
The said Oath to be certified as aforesaid.

I^st Upon receipt of any common Warrant you are to note
down in a Book (to be kept by you for that Purpose) the
time of your receiving it, the quantity of acres included
therein, the date thereof, and on what place the Person ob-
taining it, Locates the same Warrant; and when any Person
offers a Warrant for Location on Land upon which some
other Person has already entered a Warrant to affect the
same; You shall, if required, produce your Book of Entries
and shew him that Entry or Location, if such demand be made
at your House or any other Place where your Book of Entries
shall be.
2^d You are upon all Primitive Surveys to describe your
beginning as well and full as the Thing will admit of, and
then only mention course and Distance to the last course,
which is always to be thus Expressed: Then with a straight
Line to the first Beginning.
3^d You are by no means to survey or return a Certificate
for a greater number of Acres than are expressed in your
Warrant, unless to include the whole of such Vacancy as shall
lay between any Two or more Tracts of Land, giving this as a
Reason for having exceeded the quantity mentioned in your
Warrant.
4^th As soon as you execute any Warrant or any part
thereof, you are to indorse on the back of your Warrant, that
it is executed, or that such part thereof, (which you must
Specify) is Executed: You are also to indorse the name or
names, of the Land to which the Warrant is applied and sign
the same Indorsement.
5^th If any Person assigns to another a Warrant, or part of a
Warrant, you are to note it down on the back of the Warrant,
and also before you execute any Warrant, or lay out any

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Land, by virtue of such Assignments, you are to have an
original Assignment on a separate Paper to be by you returned
to the Land Office, with your Certificate of such Survey.
6^th You are to make all your Surveys as regular and square
as you possibly can, and by no means unite one bit or Spot to
another by a String, or Line, and, when it can be done, you are
always to make the Line or Lines of one Tract the Line or
Lines of another, that no small Parcel, or spots of vacant
Land may be left out.

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