592 MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS

Seven Hundred and fifty Acres of Land in any part of the Province of Mary-
land Not before reserved for the Said Lord Prop^ry'* Own Use Nor surveyed
for any other Person. We find that the Usual method of Acquiring of Es-
tates in Land within the said Province from the first Settlement thereof hath
Always been and Still is to issue Warrants or Precepts forth of the Land office
Directed to his Lordships Surveyors Who were always Sworn officers Com-
manding them to lay out the Quantity of Land mentioned in Such Warrant
or Precept for the Person therein mentioned in any part of the Province not
before Surveyed for any other Person nor reserved for his Lordship's Use and
to Return a Certificate of the Survey of the Quantity of Land Mentioned in
Such Warrants or Precepts Containing the Scituation Meets and bounds and
the Day Month and Year in w^ch Such Surveys were made, Upon Which return
the Person for whom Survey or Surveys was made, Was Entitled to his Lord-
ships Grant for Such Land and by Virtue of Such Survey and Grant to an
Estate of Inheritance in fee Simple therein Provided that the Land mentioned
in such Grant was not before the Survey thereof Either reserved for the
Lord Proprietor his Own Use or surveyed for Some other Person We find
that the only and usual way whereby the Priority of reserves for his Lord-
ships Use and other Reserves for Private Persons and the Estates in all the
Lands in Maryland has been and Still is Determined by the Dates of the
Certificates of the Sever" reserves and Surveys Containing the Particular
Scituation and Meets and bounds of Such reserves and Surveys w^ch Certifi-
cates always Contain the particular time Wherein Such reserves or surveys
were made w^th the Meets and bounds thereof W^ch always have been and Still
are returned into and Entered in his Lordships the Lord Proprietarys Land
office where all reserves and Certificates of Surveys are Entered And whence
all Warrants or Preceps for taking Up Land are issued We find that by Vir-
tue of a Warrant or Precept issued out of his Lordships Land office in Usual
form for Seven Hundred and fifty Acres of Land his Lordships Sworn Sur-
veyor the Nineteenth Day of December Sixteen Hund^d and Sixty three Sur-
veyed for the said Walter Bayne Seven Hundred and fifty Acres of Land in
Charles County and returned his Certificate thereof into the s^d office in the
following Words 19 December 1663 Laid out for Walter Bayne of this Prov-
ince Gent a Parcell of Land in Charles County Called [788] Durham lying
in the woods on the East Side of the main Fresh Runn of Portobacco Creek
beginning at a bounded white Oak and Running Up the said Fresh for
breadth the Lenghth of three Hund^d Seventy five Perches to a bounded oak
bounding on the north by a Line Drawn East from the said Oak for the
Length of three Hund^d and twenty perches to a bounded Oak on the East
by a line Drawn South from the End of the said North line the length of
three Hund^d seventy five perches to a bounded oak that interferres a parrallell
line Drawn west to the first bounded oak on the South with the said Parral-
lell on the west with the said Fresh Containing and now laid out for Seven