134 Journal and Correspondence.

April 15

Liber C. B.

No. 24
p. 259

executed. You are also to endorse the name or Names of the Land
to which the Warrant is applied and sign the same Endorsement. —

6^th ...... If any Person assigns a Warrant or any Part
thereof, you are to note it down on the Back and also before you
execute any Warrant or lay out any Land by Virtue of any Assign-
ment, you are to have an original Assignment on a separate Paper
to be by you returned to the Land Office with your Certificate of
such Survey. —
7^th ....... You are to make all your Surveys as regular and
square as you possibly can and by no means unite one bit or spot to
an-other by a string or Line and when it can be done, you are always
to make the Line or Lines of one Tract the Line or Lines of another
that no small Parcel or Spots of Vacant Land may be left out. —
8^th ...... You are not to execute any Warrant after it is out
of Date and Whereas it is said to have been a frequent Practice for
Persons having Warrants, to carry Surveyors to execute the same
and then, after they have run a Line or two, to break off on Pretence
of wanting better Information concerning the Bounds of adjacent

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Tracts, and by this Means let such Warrants run out of Date, and
afterwards complete such Survey and return a Certificate thereof
before the one Year expires. You are to observe that such Begin-
ning to run or execute a Warrant is to be deemed a Nullity; Pro-
vided such Warrant actually run out of Date before the Survey
shall be completed and Certificate returned according to the obvious
Construction of such Warrants and give Preference to any subse-
quent Warrant which shall come to your hands to affect such Land
agreeable to your preceeding Direction. —
9^th ....... Whereas Resurveys are often made to leave out
Land that is suggested to lie within elder Surveys, and great Abuses
have been committed by turning out Indifferent Land (although it
lay not in elder Surveys or prior patented Tracts) and taking in good
Land in Lieu thereof, you are, when a Warrant for making: such
Resurvey is hereafter brought to you, first to resurvey according to
its ancient Metes and Bounds, the more ancient Tract, in which
Part of the Tract that you are required by the Warrant put into
your Hands to resurvey shall be said to be included, and in your Cer-
tificate you are to insert the Name of such more ancient Tract, the
Name of the Patentee thereof, and the Time when it was taken up ;
after which you are to survey the Tract, for resurveying which, the
Warrant shall have been granted. This mode of Proceeding will
enable you to discover certainly whether any and what Part of the
younger Tract is included and taken away by the elder Survey; and
you are always by proper words to denote and distinguish the same
in your Platt and in your Certificate after alledging that you have
surveyed the several Tracts separately according to their ancient