136 Journal and Correspondence.

April 15
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 261

be said to be part, you are to follow (as occasion be) the Directions
already given in the 9^th 10^th and 12^th Articles of these Instructions
with this Difference, that where they direct the resurveying the
original Tract according to its ancient Metes and Bounds, you are in
this Case to resurvey no more of the original Tract than such a Part
of it as the Warrant put into your hands shall direct, with a Line
or Lines from the first or other certain Boundary of the said original
Tract, so as to ascertain that the Quantity thus claimed doth really
lie within the Bounds of the Tract of which it is said to be Part; and
in your Certificate, after alledging that you have run such Line or
Lines from the first or other certain Boundary of such original Tract
(mentioning the Tract of such Boundary and the Patentee thereof)
you are to declare that the whole Quantity so claimed or such Part
of it (mentioning the Quantity) now returned by you doth lie within
the Bounds of the said original Tract (when in your Certificate you
are to describe the Outlines of the Resurvey for which Patent is to
be issued ..... say " Beginning (or lastly beginning as the Case
may be ") for the Out Lines of the Resurvey by Virtue of the be-
forementioned Warrant at the End of ... Perches and ....
Links in the Line (or Course) of .... With regard to all other
Particulars, you are to observe the Directions given you by these
Instructions. —

14^th........ You are (when directed to include Vacancy) to
take in the whole, except the Quantity be more than the Party chooses
to take up, in which Case the Remainder is not to be less than one
hundred Acres and that to be left in a Body entire, for you are by no
means to leave small Parcels in slips or otherwise, nor are you to run
into any elder Survey or run a string or Line across any surveyed
Land whatever (although it should belong to the Person obtaining
the Warrant of Resurvey) in order to include Vacancy but such
Vacancy shall be taken up by Common or special Warrant, as the

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Case may require unless the Party resurveys the Tract or Tracts
(being his own) to which it is adjoining being in one or more Parcels.
In your Certificate (immediately before you begin to describe the out
Lines of the Resurvey for which Patent is to be issued) you are to
insert the Quantity of vacant Land so taken up on the Platt to be
returned with the Certificate. When vacancy shall be added you are
to insert the Word vacancy ..... Acres. If it be in more Parcels
than one, then in each of the said Parcels insert 1^st, 2^d, 3, Vacancy
.... Acres; also in your Platt on the outside of the Lines of each

Vacancy, you are to insert the names of the Lands or of the owners

of the several Tracts surrounding it; At the Bottom of your Certifi-
cate you are to give Tables of Courses referring by Figures to the
Platt as before directed. —