therefore hereby authorized and empowercd to take to your assistance such person or persons as you shall think fitt to make choice of, capable for such purpose, in your absence, or in case of your indisposition, to survey or resurvey any lands within the said county, by vertue of any such warrants as aforesain, hereby ratifying and confirming whatever such person or persons to be by you deputed by vertue hereof, in as full and ample manner as if done by yourselfe, or if I were then and there personally present to doe and performe the same, Provided that all certificates of such survey or resurvey as aforesaid, made by such your deputy or deputyes assistant as aforesaid be first viewed, approved of and signed by the said Robert Jones, as good and authentick before they be returned to be recorded in the office as is usuall; and for soe doing this shall be your warrant, Given under my hand and seale, this 18th day of May, anno domini 1683.                 *********                 * LOCUS*        C. BALTIMORE.              * SEGILI.*                 ********* " To Robert Jones, gent. my     deputy surveyor for Calvert     county.¾These"     LIBER W. C. No. 4, fol. 344. ¾¾ " Commission 1717, to the Surveyor General of the Western Shore. "MARYLAND, ss.  " To all persons to whom these presents shall come, greeting:     " Whereas the right honourable Charles, absolute lord and proprietary of the provinces of Maryland and Avalon, lord baron of Baltimore, &c. and the right honourable Francis lord Guilford, his lordship's noble guardian, have by their instructions to me, John Hart, Esq. his lordship's lieutenant governor within this province, bearing date at the city of London, the twentieth day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixteen, directed me to authorise and impower, direct and appoint Thomas Bordley, Esq, surveyor generall of the Western Shore of this province: Know ye therefore, that in pursuance of the said instructions, and by virtue of the power and authority by them to me granted, I have authorised, impowered, directed and appointed, and do by these presents, authorise, impower, direct and appoint the said Thomas Bordley, to be his lordship's surveyor generall of all his lordship's lands, mannors, chases, parkes, forrests, woods and underwoods, lying on the western side of the bay of Chesapeake, within the