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therein set forth and Vouchers to support the same. Ordered
that the Petitioner be directed to procure the fullest Informa-
tion from the Land Office, that no part of the Certificate
mentioned in the Petition has been made use of or applied to
other Surveys and especially to those Tracts mentioned in the

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Petition as lying within the Certificate called Friends Ad-
venture. That after such search, if it shall then appear to the
Satisfaction of the Board that no Benefit has been reaped
therefrom, the Board will direct the Petitioner to have a
Common warrant for the whole, or such deficiency as may
appear.
Ordered, that Notice be given to M^r Meriwether, that on
its being intimated to the Clerk of this Board, that M^r Jordan's
Accounts are ready for Examination, the Board will meet
for that Purpose, as the want of M^r Jordan's Accounts pre-
vent the Passage of the Accounts of the preceding Agents.
Also Ordered, That the Clerk of this Board do write to the
Stewards of the several manors requiring them annually
between Christmas and Lady-day to transmit Lists of the
Leases that may have expired the preceding year, on the
Manors under their Care, and also of the Lives that may have
fallen on which the demised Premises were held in conse-
quence of which the Tenure becomes more Precarious.
The Petition of Charity Cresap, was read, setting forth
that in the year 1750, her Grandfather Col^o Thomas Cresap
having paid to the late Lord Proprietary's Agent Seven
Pounds Fourteen shillings sterling, obtained a common War-
rant for 154 Acres of Land, which Warrant was continued in
Force by renewment and a Certificate was return'd of 160
Acres, the residue of the Caution being paid, lying near his
Lordship's Manor of Conocochegue, which Certificate was
assign'd to Thomas Cresap his son, Father of the Petitioner
who was afterwards Kill'd by the Indians. That a Reserve
laid within three miles of his Lordship's manors in the year
1731, had hitherto prevented a Grant, but, could not operate
against the Petitioner as that Manor was not then Surveyed &
therefore She prays a Patent for the same. The Board after
consideration of the matters therein set forth, do advise, that
as the Lord Prop^y has divested himself of the Reserve afore-
said, his Excell^y the Gov^r when Col^o Cresap, Grandfather of
the Petitioner, shall come to Annapolis, to make such Compen-
sation, as under the above Circumstances, the nature of the
Case will admit.
The Board adjourn 'till the 6^th Day of June next.

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