Minutes of the Board of Revenue, 1768-1775. 433

and at the bottom of your Certificate you are to give Tables of
Courses (referring by Figures to the Plot) Viz. The Courses
of the more ancient Tract or Tracts into which it is alledged
that such younger Survey to be Resurveyed does run, the
Courses of the former Survey now to be Resurveyed, the
Courses of the Vacancy or Vacancies added, and lastly, the
Courses of the Resurvey or Land for which Patent is now to
issue, And when you rectify any Error in such former Survey,
now to be Resurveyed and Patented you are in your Certificate
to note and mention what the Error was, to what it was owing
and how you have amended the same, and where there shall
be any Surplusage or any Deficiency discovered on a Re-
survey. You are to mention in your Certificate, what is such
Surplusage, or Deficiency, and how you apprehend such sur-
plusage or Deficiency happened.
9^th You are when Ordered to Resurvey two or more Tracts
into one, they being contiguous to each other, first to Resurvey
them severally according to their respective ancient meets
and bounds: and you are to insert in the Plot, as well as in
your Certificate, their original names and quantity of Acres,
within their respective Lines, and in your Certificate say
"Lastly beginning for the out Lines of the Resurvey, made
by vertue of the before mentioned Warrant at " &c^a and give
the Courses thereof

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10^th In Resurveying of Escheat Land, you are to lay it
down according to its ancient meets and bounds: If the Party
be not satisfied therewith, the Land must lie for any other who
will take it on those Terms, and you are to be very particular
in your Certificate, as to the number of Acres, Kind and
quality of the Improvements, as well as of the Quality of the
Land; If it be alledged that part of it lies within an Elder
Survey, you are in that Case to observe the Directions before
given in the Eighth Article of these Instructions.
11^th Where a Party applying for a Resurvey shall be pos-
sessed in Fee of part of a Tract only, on the Party's producing
an attested copy from the Land Office of the Courses and
Distances of such original Tract, of which, the Land you are
required by the Warrant put into your Hands to Resurvey
shall be said to be a part, you are to follow (as occasion be)
the directions already given in the Eighth, ninth and Tenth
Articles of these Instructions with this Difference, that where
they direct the Resurveying the Original Tract according to
its ancient meets and bounds, you are in this case to Resurvey
no more of the Original Tract, than such a part of it as the
Warrant put into your Hands shall direct, with a Line, or
Lines from the first or other certain Boundary of said Orig-
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