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 Lastly, that survey returned lands generally part profitable, whereas the Dr was to returne it wholly such, or wholly unprofitable, in conformity to the Act of Satisfaction; soe as he was alsoe for that reason necessitated to make reviews, and withall to acquaint some able artist with the lands themselves, that thereby he might be enabled to be dexterouse in the subdivision of those barronyes, whensoever the same should be called for.

Ffor which purpose there was imployed a person, allready conversant in those parts, uppon this worke, with the following extraordinary and particular instructions, vizt:

1st. You are, by the help of the respective jurymen, who did lately give information to the Commissioners for the Civill Survey, to enquire for the lands mentioned in the abstracts of the said civil survey, herewith delivered unto you, under the names returned both in the said survey and alsoe in the admeasurement taken anno Domini 1639, noting downe all along where the said lands are called by severall names in [the] two severall surveyes.

2dly. As alsoe where the said lands are said to belong to severall barronyes or parishes in the said two severall surveyes. In brief, you are to find out all the lands mentioned in the old survey, enquiring which thereof is unforfeited, as belonging to English Protestants, and to be ready with mearers that can shew the bounds according to both old and civill survey; and that the plotts now to be given in, may [bee] (allthough the same with the old), notwithstanding, marked with the names given in by the late civill survey, unless it appear that any grosse error be in the same. Withall, you are to take care that the new civill survey doe containe noe more lands then what is, though perhapps under other names, mentioned in the old, which if it doe, then such overplus, not being returned in the old, is to be measured by you.

3dly. You are to tread the meares according to the old and civill, and to take notice how the plotts which you have agree with the lands it selfe, marking the scituation of the present howsing, buildings, and other remarkable things, with some character exspressing their condition and repaire.

4thly. You are to carry an instrument with you, and therewith, by intersections, to distinguish the profitable from the unprofitable land, according to the present condition thereof, guiding your selfe, as to the quality, by the late civill