the party resurveys the tract or tracts (being his own) to which it is adjoining, being in one or more parcels. In your certificate, immediately before you begin to describe the out lines of the resurvey for which patent is to be issued, you are to insert the quantity of vacant land so taken up on the platt to be returned with the certificate; when vacancy shall be added you are to insert the words " vacancy"         acres:" If it be in more parcels than one then, in each of the said parcels insert " 1st. 2d. 3d. vacancy         acres": also in your platt, on the outside of the lines of each vacancy you are to insert the names of the lands, or of the owners of the several tracts surrounding it. At the bottom of your certificate you are to give tables of courses referring by figures to the platt, as before directed.     15th. You are upon discovery of any land forfeited to the state for treason, or lately the property of any British subject, to give notice thereof to this board or the intendant.     16th. 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.     17th. 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 a due regard however to these rules.     18th. 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 assessment for the same, or others not having procured patent from the land office, and in case you make any such discovery you are to advise this board and the commissioners of the tax of your county.     19th. You are not, after the receipt of these instructions, 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 vested in the surveyor; nor shall you appoint any assistant till he shall be approved of by the examiner 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 examiner general) shall have entered into bond, with two sufficient sureties, to you, your heirs and executors, for the true and faithful execution of his trust or employment, and shall have qualified in the same manner as you are directed by our first rule, you are forthwith to return a certificate of such his qualification