Provincial Court Proceedings, 1677/8.    451

         necessary that the due lines & bounds of the said parcell of land be Liber N N
         resurveyed by a skillfull Surveyr And that a faire plott & Certificate
         thereof be returned to the Court Itt is by the Court this day ordered
         that Charles Boteler Deputy Surveyr be especially appointed by this
         Court & is hereby appointed impowered & comanded to lay out the
         land aforesaid & run out the true lines & sett out their meets & bounds
         according to the true intent and meaning of the Will of the said
         J ohn Potts And to returne a Certificate of his proceedings herein &
         a faire plott distinctly drawn of the said land in question to the next
         Provincial Court to be held att St Maryes the fourth day of Decembr
         next attested under his hand, that so his Lordpps Justices being fully
         informed of the truth of the prmisses may doe therein what to Jus
         tice shall appertaine. By vertue of which said order Charles Boteler
         Deputy Surveyr went upon the lands in question & returned his pro
         ceedings therein in writeing under his hand which followes in these
         words Vizt Whereas by an order of the Honble Provinciall Court
         dated the Eighth day of October one thousand six Hundred Sev- p. 669
         enty seven I have bin comanded to lay out & runn the true lines
         of two hundred acres of land part of a parcell of land called Mount
         pleasant according to the true intent & meaning of the Will of John
         Pott late of Calvert County deceased And returne a Certificate &
         plott of the same to this Provinciall Court These are humbly to
         Certifie that I Charles Boteler Deputy Surveyr under Baker Brooke
         Esqr Surveyr Genll in obedience to the said order of Court did goe
         upon the said land but could not finde any bounded or lined tree of
         the same land or other known marke to begin the Survey upon So
         that the same land I could not resurvey nor the lines thereof runn out
         as by the said order I was comanded C Boteler Deputy Surveyr.
         Whereupon & upon mocon made to this Court the fourteenth day
         of ffebruary last past by Christopher Rousby in the prsence of the
         Attorney for the Defendt itt is by the Court this day ordered, that
         the said Charles Boteler be & is hereby especially appointed &
         comanded to lay out that tract of land which lyes next above the
         land in question formerly Surveyed for John Pott before the land
         in question was Surveyed that the bounds of the land in question
         may be found out And to returne a Certificate of his proceedings
         herein And also a faire Certificate & plott of the meetes & bounds
         of the land in question to the next Provinciall Court to be held att
         St Maryes the ninth day of April next attested under his hand that
         so his Lordpps Justices being fully informed of the truth of the
         prmisses may doe therein what to Justice shall appertaine. Which
         order was continued untill the Eleventh day of June then next fo!
         lowing Att which day the said Charles Boteler made returne of the
         aforesaid order in these words following Vizt To the Honble the
         chiefe Justice of Maryland & the rest of the Honble the Justices of
         the Provincial Court. Whereas by an Order of the Provinciall Court