soe farr forth as in you lyes, and is required of you;
neither presume to make any surveys without the bounds or
limits hereby assigned you; for the profits and
perquisites whereof you are to be, and shall from time to time be
accomptable to such person or persons as wee or our
lieutenant generall or his deputies shall think fitt to appoint, upon
such conditions and terms as you have already had granted
unto you the said place, or that the said place and office of
deputy surveyor hath been last enjoined and possessed by,
To have and to hold the said place and office of deputy
surveyor for Anne Arundel county aforesaid, to you the said
Richard Beard, for and during our pleasure or untill wee or our
lieutenant generall, or his deputies shall signifie our, his or
their mind to the contrary.
" Witness our trusty and well beloved the deputies of our
dear son, Benedict Leonard Calvert, Esq. our lieutenant
generall of our said province of Maryland, and given
under the lesser seale of our said province of Maryland, the
first day of December, in the tenth year of our dominion,
&c. annoq. dmi. 1684."
LIBER R. R. R. fol. 159.
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Appointment of examiner general.
" MARYLAND, ss.
" I do hereby authorize and appoint you John Gresham,
gentleman, of the city of Annapolis, to be his lordship's
examiner general of all plats and surveys made by the
several surveyors of each county, of which you are either to
approve or disallow, as you shall find occasion, for which you
are hereby authorised and impowered to take all such just
fees, perquisites and advantages as shall accrue and are
allowed by law. Given under my hand and seal, this 21st day of
September, 1722.
CHA: CALVERT."
LIBER B. B. fol. 344.
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" Proceeding evidencing the relation of patents to the dates of
the certificates, &c. at a Council held the 29th of June
1680.
" To the right honourable the lord proprietary.
" The humble petition of Christopher Rousby and John
Rousby ¾Sheweth:
" That your petitioners had each of them a severall
warrant of survey, (viz.) the said Christopher for 500 acres,
and the said John for 800 acres, by vertue whereof William
Hemesley, deputy surveyor for Talbott county, did the 12th
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