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In your survey or admeasuring any parcell of fforfeited lands, as oft as you come upon, or crosse the meare of any barrony, you are diligently to enquire and informe your selfe how the said meares and bounds doe runn, and either by taking the angles, or by such other wayes and meanes as you thinke best, and may be speedyest done, to ascertaine the said bounds and meares of the respective barronyes, soe as that the same may be drawne and sett downe by you in a touch plott.
As touching unprofitable lands, which by these instructions you are appointed to survey only by estimate, you are faythfully to describe the nature, quality and quantity, and bounds of the said land, and especially where the same boundeth upon the profitable lands which you are to survey, and to sett downe the reasons why you account or returne the same unprofitable.
In the taking the survey of all Crowne lands, or lands lately belonging to any archbishopp, bishopp, deane, deane and chapter, or other ofiicer of that hierarchye, you are to returne the surveys of each of the said lands respectively in distinct plotts by themselves. Haveing taken exactly the contents of lands forfeited in any of the said barronies, you are by your owne view, and such further information as shal be given you by the commissioners appointed for the survey of the said county, to describe and sett downe in a toutch plott the several and respective proprietors' land not forfeited within the said barronyes, according to their severall and respective scituation, and the estimate of their respective quantityes given by the counting of them at 160 poles to the acre and twenty-one ffoote to each pole.
Lastly, you are to returne the plotts of each barrony by it selfe, together with the bookes of reference belonging to the said plotts respectively, unto the surveyors-generall his office, in the drawing or making up of which you are from tyme to tyme to follow such instructions as shal be sent you from the said commissioners of the Comonwealth, or from the said surveyor-generall, and to act and doe all other things relating to your commission as are required in the duty of a surveyor.
C. F.
M. C.
J. J.
VIII.
The Oath given to the Surveyors imployed by Dr. Petty[1].
You shall, in the presence and fear of the Lord, swear that you will faithfully and truely, according to your best skill and knowledg, perform the duty and trust of a surveyor in all such surveys as you shall be imployed in, according unto the instructions you either have or shall receive from the surveyor-generall, or such others as are or shall thereunto authorized, and shall make true returns thereof, and shall neither for fear nor favour, malice or reward, or hope of reward, violate the trust reposed in you.
- ↑ From the Record Branch of the Paymaster of Civil Services' Office.
