now to be resurveyed and patented, you are in your
certificate to note and mention what the error was, to what it was
owing and how you have amended the same, and where there
shall be any surplusage or any deficiency discovered on a
resurvey. You are to mention in your certificate, what is such
surplusage, or deficiency, and how you apprehend such
surplusage or deficiency happened.
" 9th. You are when ordered to resurvey two or more
tracts into one, they being contiguous to each other, first to
resurvey them severally according to their respective ancient
metes and bounds: and you are to insert in the plott, as well
as in your certificate, their original names and quantity of
acres, within their respective lines, and in your certificate say
" lastly beginning for the out lines of the resurvey made by
" virtue of the before mentioned warrant at" &c. and give
the courses thereof.
10th. In resurveying of escheat land, you are to lay it
down according to its ancient metes and bounds: if the
party be not satisfied therewith, the land must lie for any other
who will take it on those terms; and you are to be very
particular in your certificate, as to the number of acres, kind
and quality of the improvements, as well as the quality of
the land; if it be alledged that part of it lies within an elder
survey, you are in that case to observe the directions before
given in the eighth article of these instructions.
" 11th. Where a party applying for a resurvey shall be
possessed in fee of part of a tract only, on the party's
producing an attested copy from the land office of the courses
and distances of such original tract, of which, the land you
are required by the warrant put into your hands to resurvey,
shall be said to be a part, you are to follow (as occasion be)
the directions already given in the eighth, ninth and tenth
articles of these instructions, with this difference, that where
they direct the resurveying the original tract according to its
ancient meets 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 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
a 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, such
boundary, and the patentee thereof) you are to declare that the
whole quantity, so claimed, or such a part of it (mentioning
the quantity) now returned by you, doth lie within the bounds
of said original tract, when in your certificate you are to
describe the outlines of the resurvey, for which patent is to be
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