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    bee Surveyed and Layd out by some skilfull person according to the          Liber W. C.
    Originall Surveys thereof, and that faire Plotts and Certificates of
    all and every the said parcells of land be returned to the next Pro
    vinciall Court soe that Justice may be done to both partyes, Itt is
    by the Court therefore this day ordered that Randall Brandt gentl
    Deputy Surveyor bee and is hereby especially appointed Impowered
    and Comanded to lay out the aforesaid Three parccll3 of land accord
    ing to the antient meetes & bounds thereof in the presence of the
    Sheriffe of st Maryes County aforesaid Who is hereby Comanded
    and Empowered to sumon and Impannell a Jury of Twelve good
    and Lawfull men of the Neighbourhood Who are to be by him the
    said sheriffe duely sworne and then to goe upon the said Three
    pcells of Land wth the said sheriffe and Surveyor & see the Same
    Laid out as aforesaid, & the said Randall Brandt is hereby comanded
    to runn the Lines of all the said parceils of land according to the
    original Survey thereof & to returne a Seaverali and Distinct Certifi
    cate and piott of each parcell of land to the next Provinciall Court
    to be held at the Citty of St Maryes the Eight and Twentyeth day
    of ffebruary next attested as well undr the hand and scale of the
    said surveyor as of the said Sheriffe and Jurors aforesaid That soc
    his Lopps Justices being fully informed of the Truth of the premisses
    may doe therein as to Justice shall appertaine

    Waiter Smith 1 In Ejecmt November the 16th 1681
        agt
 Wm Groome J  Came Walter smith by Charles Boteler his Attorney,
              and Wm Groome sonn & heire of Wm Groome de
    ceased, an Infant under the age of one and Twenty yeares (by Henry
    Jowies and Sybilla his wife his Guardians by this Court admitted)
    by George Parker their Attorney, and this Cause standing at issue
    Ready for Tryall this present Court, But because it appeareth to the
    Court here that the same is an action of Ejectment, and that it is        p. 489
    comenced by the said Walter Smith as Lessee of Richard Smith and
    Elizabeth his wife and Christopher Baines and Ann his wife against
    Daniel Phillips Casual Ejector To try the Title to one Messuage and
    one Thousand Acres of land called Brooke Ridge Lyeing on the
    south side of Petuxent River between Brooke Creeke and a Westerne
    branch of the Divideing Creeke called st Charles and being now in
    Dispute betweene the said Waiter Smith and William Groome, The
    Court finding it absolutely necessary the better to Know wherein
    Trespasse and Ejectment aforesd is comitted That all that parceil of
    land Called Mount Calvert Containing One thousand Acres next
    adjoyning to the aforesaid parceli of land called Brooke Ridge, be
    first Resurveyed and Layd out according to the true antient Meetes
    and bounds thereof by some skilfuil pson and by a Jury to goe Upon
    the said Land, and that when the same is Soc Surveyed and Layd
    out That the same Surveyor and Jurors Doe resurvey & Lay out