are recorded upon warrants of escheat, you are likewise to sett down in the abstracts of them the name of the original tracts so become escheat.     " 9th. You, as secretary, shall take care to give the clerks of the the county's, directions to be very exact in transmitting to our agent the alienations every year.     " 10th. Whereas we have condescended that those persons who are intituled to any lands within our manor of Severn, on the north side of Severn river, in Ann Arundell county, by any former survey or pattent, should have original pattents, or pattents of confirmation for the same: therefore, our will and pleasure is, that proper pattents issue to such persons as shall apply for the same, within the space of one year next ensuing, under the same annual rent for every hundred acres, which was payable for lands at the time of the original survey of such lands. Provided, that no pattent to be granted by virtue of this instruction, shall contain or include more land than the express number of acres mentioned in the original survey or pattent, and which said number of acres shall be included within bounds to be ascertained by a resurvey, if necessary, of such lands, prior to the pattent hereby directed to be granted.     " 11th. There shall be in all future comon warrants, a clause, inserted by proviso, that the pattent shall be taken out within the space of two years after the date of such warrant, and which said clause you are hereby injoyned so strictly to observe, as not to suffer any renewal of the said warrants, after such time, or any pattents to issue contrary to the true intent and meaning thereof.     " 12th. As soon as notice shall be given unto you, that there is surplusage contained in any former or future surveys, for which the owners of such surveys have not made the proper application, pursuant to our proclamation, dated the fourteenth of June, seventeen hundred and thirty-three, you shall inform our attorney general thereof, in order that he may proceed to make void the pattent, and upon a judgement or a decree for vacating the same, you are hereby directed, upon application in behalfe of such pattentee, to grant a warrant to resurvey so many acres of the said land, as were mentioned in the said pattent so vacated, and to issue a pattent for the same to the person who was intitled to the said first patent, and you are to grant the surplusage to any other person than the owner applying for the same, under the conditions and terms of four shillings sterling rent, and the other conditions established by these instructions, and upon the payment or security of such caution money, as to our chancellor and agent shall seem proper. E e