deputy surveyor in the countyes of Baltimore and Cecill; and further being very well assured of your skill, ability, honesty and integrity, have deputed, constituted and appointed, and by these presents doe depute, constitute and appoint you the said Charles James to be my deputy, and in resurveying and laying out lands that are allready laid out, and where the partie concerned may suppose there is an error in the former survey, in any part of the countyes aforesaid, in as full and ample power as I myself may, might or could do if I were personally present, to doe and perform the same; and doe hereby further give you the said Charles James my full power, strength and authority to run out men's lines, to survey lands according to warrant or patent, and to use and exercise the office of a deputy surveyor in full and ample manner in the countyes of Baltimore and Cecill aforesaid, and also to resurvey land in any part of the countyes aforesaid, without lett, hindrance, disturbance or molestation of any person whatsoever, To have and to hold the said office of deputy surveyor in Baltimore and Cecill aforesaid and resurvey in any part of the countyes as aforesaid, during pleasure provided allways that you the said Charles James shall receive, obey and comply with such orders and instructions as from time to time I the said Baker Brooke, shall under my hand, order appoint and direct; and moreover, it is and be it hereby further provided, that you the said Charles James shall be contented with the one half of the fees or profits arising or becoming due by reason or means of the said imployment hereby granted unto you, and shall be accomptable to me the said Baker Brooke for the other halfe, once every year at least. Given under my hand and seal, this twenty-eighth day of July, in the three and fortieth year of the dominion of the right honourable Cecililus, &c. in and over this province of Maryland, annoq. domini, one thousand six hundred seventy and four."     LIBER No. 15, fol. 203. ¾ " Licence to a Surveyor to act by Deputy.     " Whereas I have by commission under my hand and seale consituted, ordained and appointed you Robert Jones, gentleman, to be my deputy surveyor for Calvert county, and considering that by reason of your own indisposition often times happening, and other public concerns sometimes occurring, requiring your attendance in other parts of the province, soe that you cannot be present att all times to execute such warrants as may be granted for the survey or resurvey, of lands within the said county, where you are deputed within the time limitted in such warrants, you are