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

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are to advise the Governor, or His Lordship's Receiver Gen-
eral thereof.

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21^st You are not to suffer any Person to run out the Lines
of, or execute any Warrant for you, unless an Assistant
properly qualified; and to prevent all Disputes about the
priority of Entries, or Locations of Land, no assistant shall
presume to receive or enter the Location of any Warrant,
whatsoever; that Power being solely vested in the Deputy
Surveyor; nor shall you appoint any such Assistant 'til he
shall be approved of by the Surveyor General, and when you
apply for such approbation you are to set forth the Reasons
that induce you to make such Application, and after your
Assistant (being approved of by the Surveyor General) shall
have entered into Bond with Two sufficient Sureties to you,
or your Executors, for the true and faithful execution of his
Trust, or Employment, and shall have qualified to this Effect :
That He will truly and faithfully, to the best of his Knowledge
and Power, discharge and execute such his Trust and Em-
ployment, you are forthwith to return a Certificate of such his
Qualification to the Surveyor General whose approbation, or
permission shall be expressed or recited in the Order or ap-
pointment, which you make & deliver to your assistant; and
you are also to give him a Copy of these your Instructions.
22^d Whereas the following being an Article of Instruc-
tions, delivered to the Judges of the Land Office Viz. In case
of Warrants of Resurvey hereafter to be issued, notwith-
standing the general Power therein to add all or any contigu-
ous Vacancy, yet, unless the Party who shall obtain the same
make a particular Location thereof on the Land and number
of Acres He shall intend to secure, within Eight months after
the Date of such Warrants, such person shall not have any
Preference, before any Person interested in any other War-
rant, on which a prior Survey shall be made you are hereby
required to Act in Conformity therewith.
23^d In case you should afterwards dismiss your Assistant,
you are to give notice thereof, to the Surveyor General, with
your Reason for so doing.

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Instructions to the Commissary General.
1^st You are to return to the Revenue Officer a List of all
Devises, when the Wills are Proved in the Prerogative Office,
and likewise the Lists which shall in Virtue of the Instruc-
tions to them be transmitted to you from time to time by the
Deputy Commissaries of the several Counties.
2^d When a Will is brought to you for Probate, you are to
enquire who is the Devisor's Heir at Law, what Lands by