432 Minutes of the Board of Revenue, 1768-1775.

Lib. No. 86

7^th You are not to execute any Warrant after it is out of
Date; and whereas it is said to have been a frequent practice,
for Persons having Warrants to carry Surveyors to execute
the same, & then after they have run a Line or Two to break
off, on pretence of wanting better Information concerning the
bounds of adjacent Tracts and by this means let such War-
rants run out of Date, and afterwards compleat such Survey
and return Certificate thereof before the Two years expire,
you are to observe that such beginning to run or execute a
Warrant is to be deemed a Nullity, provided such Warrant
actually run out of Date before the Survey shall be Com-
pleted and Certificate returned according to the obvious Con-
struction of such Warrant, and in case the Party does not
renew it, as if no such beginning had been made, you are to
consider such Warrants as out of Date and Expired, and
give the preference to any subsequent Warrant, which shall
come to your Hands to affect such Land agreeable to the
preceeding Direction.
8^th Whereas Resurveys are often made to throw, or leave,
out Land that is suggested to lie within elder Surveys, and
great abuses have been Committed by turning out indifferent
Land (altho it lay not in elder Surveys or prior Patented
Tracts) and taking in good Land in Lieu thereof, you are
when a Warrant for making such Resurvey is hereafter
brought to you, first to resurvey according to its ancient
meets and bounds the more Ancient Tract (in which part of

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the Tract that you are required by the Warrant put into your
Hands to Resurvey, shall be said to be included) and in your
Certificate you are to insert the Name of such more ancient
Tract, the name of the Patentee thereof and the time when it
was taken up after which you are to Resurvey the Tract for
Resurveying which, the Warrant put into your Hands shall
have been Granted: This mode of proceeding will enable you
to discover certainly, whether any and what of the younger
Tract is included in, and taken away by the elder Survey, and
you are always by proper Words to denote and distinguish
the same in your Plot, and in your Certificate; after alledging
that you have surveyed the several Tracts separately accord-
ing to their ancient meets & bounds (beginning with the most
Ancient) and that you have added — acres of vacant Land (in
case any vacancy is to be added by virtue of the before men-
tioned Warrant of Resurvey) you are then to describe or
give the out Lines of such Resurvey, which you are by the
Warrant directed to make, and for which Patent is to be
issued (saying) "Lastly beginning for the out Lines of the
Resurvey by virtue of the before mentioned Warrant at " &c^a