Council of Maryland, 1781-1782. 137

15^th........ You are, upon Discovery of any Land forfeited
to the State for Treason, or lately the Property of any British Sub-
ject to give Notice thereof to this Board or the Intendant. —
16^th......... In resurveying old Tracts, whereof Part may
be found to lie in the Water, you are to be careful in certifying
whether it is likely to have been washed away, or to have been an
Error in the original Survey. —
17^th........ You are at all Times to give the strictest Atten-
tion to the Directions contained in the respective Warrants issued to
you, out of the Land Office, paying a due Regard, however to
these Rules. —
18^th ........ You shall endeavor to discover whether any
Person or Persons are in the Possession of or occupy Lands in any
part of the County of which you are Surveyor, that doth not pay As-
sessment for the same, or others not having procured Patent from the
Land Office, and in Case you make any such Discovery you are to
advise this Board and the Commissioners of the Tax of your
County. —
19^th......... You are not after the Receipt of these Instruc-
tions to suffer any Person to run out the Lines of, or execute any
Warrant for you unless an Assistant properly Qualified, and to pre-
vent all Disputes about the Priority of Entries or Locations of Land,
no Assistant shall presume to receive or enter the Location of any
Warrant whatsoever, that Power being solely vested in the Surveyor,
nor shall you appoint any Assistant 'till he shall be approved of by
the Examiner General and when you apply for such Approbation you
are to set forth the Reasons that induce you to make such Applica-
tion, and after your Assistant (being approved of by the Examiner
General) shall have entered into Bond with two sufficient Sureties
to you, your Heirs and Executors for the true and faithful Execution
of his Trust, or Employment and shall have Qualified in the same
Manner as you are directed by our first Rule, you are forthwith to
return a Certificate of such his Qualifications to the Examiner Gen-
eral, whose Approbation or Permission shall be expressed or recited
in the order or Appointment which you make and deliver to your
Assistant and you are also to give him a Copy of these Rules. —
20^th.............. In Case you should afterwards dismiss
your Assistant you are to give notice thereof to the Examiner Gen-
eral with your Reasons for so doing. —

April 15
Liber C. B.
No. 24
p. 262

You must in all Things relating to your Office observe and be gov-
erned by the Directions of the Act entitled "An Act to appropriate
certain Lands to the use of the Officers and soldiers of this State and
for the Sale of vacant Lands " —
Given in Council at Annapolis this 15^th Day of April in the Year
of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty two and in the
sixth Year of our Independence. —

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