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 survey, in reference to the particulars undertaken by the said Doctor, as likewise to report what things remaine still to bee performed by the said Dr, for the finall compleating of his whole contract with the Commonwealth, I humbly certifie as followeth.

That being, by your Lordshipps order of the fifteenth of May last, authorized and impowered to imploy soe many able and discreet persons as should bee thought fitt for the better performance and dispatch of the examination of the said worke, I, having conferred with the said persons, and perused severall of the notes and observations taken by them, doe find this accompt ensueing to bee given, vizt:

1st. They doe certifie that, in examining the same, they doe find the severall lands are returned by the said Doctor in some of the said barronyes, for which there appeares no voucher, either in his abstracts or in the bookes of the civill survey.

2dly. That whereas the said Doctor was by his contract to admeasure all lands into its lowest denominations, yett wee find severall denominations to have been admeasured in one surround together, without being distinguished, either in their meets, bounds, or contents, one from another.

3dly. Whereas the said Doctor was by his said contract obliged allsoe to sett downe all particular proprieties within any towne land or other denomination of land, to the end the quality of each particular mans estate forfeited may bee knowne; yett they find severall lands admeasured belonging to diverse proprietors, the estate of each of which proprietors are not at all distinguished, either by admeasurement or by estimate.

4thly. That they, in examination of the said returne, doe find that some towne lands have been admeasured, which are partly forfeited and partly unforfeited, and yet the whole surveyed and put into the creditt without being distinguished, or any deduction made for the said lands unforfeited.

5thly. They find much defect in the particular surveyes and returnes of timber wood.

6thly. They find severall commons to bee surveyed and returned in the creditt, belonging partly to lands forfeited, and partly to lands unforfeited, and for the survey of which there appeares noe vouchers in the abstract.

7thly. They find many parcells of lands returned for unprofitable lands under five hundred acres, which lyes together, but are separated by lines, or