manors or on any part thereof unless a particular
special warrant be to you directed for that purpose, nor shall
you locate any common warrant (or execute a warrant of
resurvey to include vacancy)on lands lying within three
miles of any of his lordship's manors, except as above
excepted, nor on any of his lordship's revenues.
" 15th. You are on all surveys, whether special or under
proclamation when you include cultivated land to be very
particular in your certificate as to the number, kind, and
quality of the improvements.
" 16th. You are upon discovery of vacant land rough, or
cultivated, or land forfeited to his lordship, adjoining or
contiguous to any of his manor lands or reserves to give
notice to the land office, that a proper warrant may be issued in
order to its being added thereto.
" 17th. 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.
" 18th. As there are directions given in the eighth
article of these instructions for many particulars that are not
elsewhere taken notice of you are at all times, in case of
doubt, to refer thereto.
" 19th. You are at all times to give the strictest
attention to the directions contained in the respective warrants
issued to you, out of the land office, paying due regard
however to these instructions.
" 20th. You shall endeavour 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 rent for the same, or others not having procured
patent, or leave for the same from his lordship's agent or the
land office; and in case you make any such discovery, you
are to advise the governor, or his lordship's receiver general
thereof.
"21st. You are not to suffer any person to run out the lines
of, or execute any warrant for you, unless an assistant
properly qualified, and to prevent 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 rested in the deputy surveyor, nor
shall you appoint any such assistant till he shall be approved
of by the surveyor general, and when you apply for such
approbation you are to set forth the reasons that induce you
to make such application, and after your assistant (being
approved of by the surveyor generall) shall have entered into bond
with two sufficient sureties to you, your executors, for the
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