run and measure the distance to such boundary, which shall
be at the end of the line; nor are you to return to the
land office any platt or certificate for land of which either you
or your assistant have not actually measured every line.
4th. You are by no means to survey, or return a certificate
for, a greater number of acres than are expressed in your
warrant, unless to include the whole of such vacancy as shall
lie between any two or more tracts of land; giving this as
a reason for having exceeded the quantity mentioned in your
warrant.
5th. As soon as you execute any warrant, or any part
thereof, you are to endorse on the back of your warrant that
it is executed, or that such part thereof (which you must
specify) is executed: you are also to endorse the name or names
of the land to which the warrant is applied, and sign the same
endorsement.
6th. If any person assigns a warrant, or any part thereof,
you are to note it down on the back, and also before you
execute any warrant or lay out any land by virtue of any
assignment, you are to have an original assignment on a separate
paper, to be by you returned to the land office with your
certificate of such survey.
7th. You are to make all your surveys as regular and
square as you possibly can, and by no means unite one bit or
spot to another by a string or line, and, when it can be done,
you are always to make the line or lines of one tract the line
or lines of another, that no small parcel or spots of vacant land
may be left out.
8th. You are not to execute any warrant after it is out of
date, and whereas it is said to have been a frequent practice
for persons having warrants to carry surveyors to execute the
same, and then, after they have run a line or two, to break off,
on pretence of wanting better information concerning the
the bounds of adjacent tracts, and by this means let such
warrants run out of date, and afterwards complete such survey
and return a certificate thereof before the one year expires;¾
You are to observe that such beginning to run or execute a
warrant is to be deemed a nullity, provided such warrant
actually run out of date before the survey shall be completed
and the certificate returned¾
according to the obvious
construction of such warrants, and give preference to any
subsequent warrant which shall come to your hands to affect such
land agreeable to your preceding direction.
9th. Whereas resurveys are often made to leave out land
that is suggested to be within elder surveys, and great abuses
have been committed by turning out indifferent land although
it lay not in elder surveys or prior patented tracts, and taking
in good land in lieu thereof, you are when a warrant for
making such resurvey is hereafter brought to you, first to resurvey
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