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having issued for particular purposes, which have been since
effectually answered, we conceive the Lands in question are
subject to the same Regulation & Rules of Office as those here-
tofore Granted.
As to the Third, We are not informed of those Persons who
it is said, have stood the brunt of the Indian Wars, nor can
we forbear remarking that if the Agent knew of any such
whose particular circumstances entitled them to Regard, he
would have more effectually promoted their Interests by a
communication of his knowledge to the Governor, before the
26^th March last, than by his oblique Censure of our Proceed-
ings in his Letter to the Judges of the Land Office, so late as the
29^th of April. From principles of benevolence the Governor
has directed the Surveyor of Frederick County to inform
those who have settled to the Westward of Fort Cumberland
that upon application & payment of the Proprietor's Caution
Money, they shall be preferred before others; and if any Per-
sons are possessed of, or entitled to Warrants, which they
purchased with a view of surveying Land in that part of the
Province, as the office is open, they have an opportunity of

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completing their Titles; but if these Warrants have been exe-
cuted elsewhere, they can have no pretence of Claim. The
Restriction with Respect to the Lands reserved for the use of
the Proprietor is fully and most expressly continued, for
which we refer to the proceedings of the 26^th March last; and
we are of opinion that every precaution should be used to
prevent other Surveys from interfering with these Reserves :
Should there be any suspicion of designs to evade the Restric-
tions respecting the Reserved Lands, we recommend that
Caveats be entered until there can be a full examination into
the Matter; and the more effectually to counteract every In-
tention of this nature we think it necessary that a special
Proviso should be inserted in the Patents.
We apprehend that the expected Emolument from the Pro-
prietor's reservation will be entirely lost if the adjacent Lands
remain uncultivated; the Mountainous situation of the Coun-
try and its distance from Navigable Water preclude the hopes
of an extensive Commerce, and unless opportunities be af-
forded to the Tenants of interchanging their Commodities
with the neighbouring Inhabitants, we conceive but few Per-
sons & those of the lowest Estimation would incline to settle
in this solitary part of the Province, shut out from the inter-
course of Mankind.
It being intimated, that the Hon^ble Daniel of S^t Thomas
Jenifer, Esq^r is desirous of inspecting the proceedings of this
Board relative to the Letters addressed by him to the Judges

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