Minutes of the Board of Revenue, 1768-1775. 475

Genⁿ
" The Lord Proprietary being desirous to have 10000 acres
of Land reserved in the western part of Frederick County for
a Manor, I have given the Surveyor of that County Instruc-
tions to execute no warrants whatever on the Lands lying
beyond Fort Cumberland til the above quantity is surveyed
and laid out for his Lordship, of which you will be pleased to
take notice and cause the same to be communicated to any
Person that may apply for Warrants that may affect Land in
that part of the Province." I am
Genⁿ
Your hble Servant
Hor^o Sharpe

And as it appears by Platts thereof, that, since the said
Instruction, several Surveys have been made and Lands re-
served for the use of the Lord Proprietary to the westward of
Fort Cumberland to wit 2550 Acres p Certificate dated the
30^th October 1767, 96610 acres p Certificate dated the 1^st of

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December 1767, 17750 acres p Certificate dated the 8^th May,
4740 Acres p Certificate dated the 16^th May, and 6030 Acres
p Certificate dated the 20^th May in the year 1768 whereby the
Intent and Design of the said Instruction to the Surveyor of
Frederick County has been fully answered; and in as much as
the Revenue of the Lord Proprietary would be augmented,
and the Settlement of the Country be encouraged by giving
liberty to all Persons to have surveyed to their use, upon War-
rants already issued and that shall hereafter issue the Lands
in this Province, to the Westward of Fort Cumberland, so
that such Surveys in virtue of such Warrants do not run into,
interefere with, or in any manner affect the above, or any of
the above Surveys made for the Lord Proprietary: There-
fore it is the opinion of this Board that the Deputy Surveyor
of Frederick County be instructed to lay out, and Survey for
such Person and Persons as for that purpose shall apply to
him to execute any Warrant or Warrants on any Lands to
the Westward of Fort Cumberland, in this Province, in the
same manner and by the same rules as he would do in case the
first mentioned Instruction had never been given or issued.
Provided that in making Surveys the said Deputy Surveyor
do take especial Care that he do not run into, interfere with,
or in any manner affect any of the Lands laid out and sur-
veyed for the Lord Proprietary as aforesaid. And it is also
the Opinion of this Board, that Copies of the Lines, Courses
and Boundaries of the aforesaid Surveys made for the Lord
Proprietary, shewing the situation of the Lands surveyed and
Reserved as aforesaid for his Lordship's use, he sent to the

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