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Provincial Court Land Records, 1709-1719
Volume 720, Page 520   View pdf image
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       Chiefly Occasioned by severall Little petty Assignements Made
       out of the said warrant Wherefore for the future noe warrants
       Must be so parcelled out by assignment but the whole Warrant may be
       assigned or after a survey is made by Virtue of part of it the Remainder
       of the said warrant may be assigned And this you are to express [illegible]
       to be inserted in all warrants

       And whereas by the Methods heretofore taken by survey or
       in menconing a great many Bounderd in the Certificate of the surveys
       by them made Great Inconveniencys have ensued and generally speaking
       either too small or too large measure given by them as will to My
       Prejudice as to the prejudice of the People Wherefore for the [illegible] you
       are either by instructions to my surveyors or by proper words inserted in
       my in my warrants so to Order matters that in all surveys hereafter to be
       Made there be but one Bounder certaine Begining Expressed & Sufficiently
       Discribed and after that nothing but course and distance to the closeing of
       the survey which is the fairest way betwixt me and the People and may in
       all probility be a Means of preventing severall Law suits and perjurys
       about the bounds of Land

       In as much as have now Given Twelve Comissions for Surveyors
       and have no Surveyor General in case of the Death of any the said surveyors You are
       hereby empowerd to Appoint and Constitute others in their Room
       till furthers orders from me in case of this behaviour misfeasance
       or negligency               of the said surveyors as to the due execution
       of their office or wrong by them wilfully done to any person whome
       they are to serve in their said Office You are hereby Impowered
       to displace or suspend such surveyor or surveyors and appoint
       other in his or their place till further orders from me
      
       You are alsoe hereby Ordered and Empowered yearly to pay
       in tobacco the severall allowance heretofore by me Made to
       the severall Persons and Officers herein after Menconed
       Viz.t to Major Nicholas Sewall twelve Thousand pounds of Tobacco
       to the same Major Sewall as an addicon thereunto three Thousand
       pounds of tobacco to Henry Sewall the said Majors son for his
                                                                                  (assistance)


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