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 under his hand, owne the said instructions, and the sufficiency of the said measurers, as alsoe the sufficiency, diligence, and integrity of each of the said examiners, for ought hee could ever heare or find to the contrary: all which, together with the offers hereafter tendered for the repairing of omissions and correcting errors, is humbly conceived an higher satisfaction then ever, for ought appeares, was given or required in the like cases before.

2dly. As your petitioner desired to know how and when the surveyes shall bee vouched, soe alsoe he further desireth to know when they shall bee absolutely delivered into the Surveyor-Generalls office, humbly offering that, in case itt shall not bee thought fitt to deliver them up untill all the abovementioned particulars bee fully perfected, and that duplicates according to the most corrected copies be given out to the souldiers, according to agreement, which can not bee done for severall monethes yet to come, to furnish men well versed in the said surveyes, who for a reasonable allowance shall from time to time give the Surveyor-Generall satisfaction to any matter contained in the said surveyes, whereunto alsoe himselfe or instruments may have free access uppon all occasions.

3dly. Your petitioner humbly prays that noe dubiouse exspression in his articles may bee used to retrench any part of his pay due according to the rates of the respective place of the survey of any lands actually by him admeasured, all though since suspended or reserved from being sett forth, nor for the survey of lands which, allthough they were not in the abstracts of the civill survey, yet, being uppon other information suspected to bee forfeited, were admeasured at the petitioners charge, for noe other imaginable reason then the advantage and service of the Commonwealth only; fforasmuch as your petitioner, by receiving and distributing orders concerning such suspensions and other alterations, hath been at more labour and trouble then the actually setting out of the said lands unto the souldier would have required, and since those, for whose behoofe such dubiouse lands were admeasured, to wit, the army and the proprietors, for whose benefitt they were reserved, as alsoe your honoures, who have still hereby the knowledge of such lands, may alltogether better bear the said loss then your poor petitioners who receiveth noe kind of advantage thereby.

4thly. Your petitioners, as in duty bound, and that a worke of soe great charge and consequence may not remaine imperfect in the least materiall point, doth humbly mind your honoures that his instruments have fallen into severall unavoydable omissions, sometimes in not distinguishing betweene publicke