Council of Maryland, 1781-1782. 133

1. Upon Receipt of these Rules, you are to take the Oaths (or
Affirmations) to the Government, if you have not already taken
them, and you are also to take and Subscribe the following Oath or
Affirmation of Office to wit " I ... do swear or Affirm, that I will
well and diligently, truly and faithfully discharge and execute the
Trust reposed in me and the Duties of my Office as Surveyor of
County to the best of my knowledge and power, with-
out favor, Affection or Partiality according to Law and that I will
in all Certificates for Escheat or Cultivated Lands returned by me,
express the real Value in Current Money of the" Escheat Lands and
the Improvements thereon and the real Value in Current Money, of
all Improvements on cultivated Lands; that I will not mention any

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Boundary (artificial or natural) in any Certificate of Survey unless I
do actually run and Measure the Distance to such Boundary and that
every Boundary by me inserted shall be at the End of the Line as
expressed and that no Certificate shall contain more Land than I
shall certify to the best of my Knowledge and Belief " and you are
to return a Certificate by the Justice of such your Qualification to
this Board as soon as may be thereafter.
2^d ....... Upon Receipt of any Common Warrant, you are to note
down in a Book to be kept by you for that Purpose, the time of your
receiving it, the Quantity of Acres included therein, the Date thereof,
and at what place the Person who obtains it locates the same; and
when any Person desires to locate a Warrant on Land, which some
other person has already entered a Warrant to Affect, you shall if
required produce your Book of Entries, and Shew him that Entry or
Location if such Demand be made at your Home or any other Place
where your Book of Entries shall be. —
3^d ... You are upon all Surveys and Resurveys, to describe your
Beginning as well and as full as the Thing will admit of and then
only Course and Distance to the last Course, which is always to be
thus expressed " then with a streight Line to the first Beginning " ;
unless where you mention any boundary natural or artificial, in which
Case you are actually to run and Measure the Distance to such Boun-
dary which shall be at the End of the Line, nor are you to return
to the Land Office any Platt or Certificate for Land of which either
you or your Assistant have not actually measured every Line. —
4^th ..... You are by no Means to Survey or return a Certificate
for a greater Number of Acres than are expressed in your Warrant
unless to include the whole of such Vacancy as shall lie between any
two or more Tracts of Land, giving this as a Reason for having
exceeded the Quantity mentioned in your Warrant.
5^th .... As soon as you execute any Warrant or any Part
thereof you are to endorse on the back of your Warrant that it is
executed or that such Part thereof (which you must specify) is

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