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for in such Original, or former Certificate, You are hereby
required to measure the true Distance to such Boundary or
Line; and when you are to run with such or any other par-
ticular Line of a former Survey, you are actually to measure
the true distance that you shall run with such Line, and you
are to be particularly careful that you are not imposed on
with regard to the truth of such Boundary, or course, or
length of such Line; nor are you to return to the Land office
any Plot, or Certificate for Land of which either you, or your
assistant have not actually measured every Line.
14^th You are not to Locate any common Warrant (or exe-
cute a Warrant of Resurvey to include Vacancy) on His
Lordship's Manors or on any part thereof unless a particular
Special Warrant be to you directed for that Purpose; nor shall
you Locate any common Warrant (or execute a Warrant of
Resurvey to include Vacancy) on Lands lying within Three

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Miles of any of His Lordship's Manors, (except as above
excepted) nor on any of His Lordship's Reserves.
15^th You are on all Surveys, whether Special or under
Proclamation when you include Cultivated Land to be very
particular in your Certificate as to the number, Kind & quality
of the Improvements.
16^th You are upon Discovery of Vacant Lands rough, or
cultivated, or Land forfeited to His Lordship, adjoining or
contiguous to any of his Manor Lands or Reserves. to give
notice to the Land Office, that a proper Warrant may be
issued in order to its being added thereto.
17^th In resurveying old Tracts, whereof part may be found
to lie in the Water, you are to be careful in certifying whether
it is likely to have been washed away, or to have been an Error
in the original Survey.
18^th As there are Directions given in the Eighth Article of
these Instructions, for many particulars that are not else-
where taken notice of you are at all times, in Case of doubt, to
refer thereto.
19^th You are at all times to give the strictest attention to the
Directions contained in the respective Warrants issued to you
out of the Land Office, paying due regard however to these
Instructions.
20^th You shall endeavour to discover whether any Person,
or Persons are in the possession of, or occupy Lands in any
part of the County of which you are Surveyor that doth not
pay Rent for the same, or others not having procured Patent,
or Lease for the same from His Lordship's Agent or the
Land Office; and in Case you make any such discovery, you

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