" on the west side of Wiccocomoco river, and on the west " side of Sacaio swamp, being about half a mile north from " the land called Daniell's Mount, to be holden of the mannor " of Sacaio, beginning at a marked oak, upon a hill by a great " swamp, near a cow path called Sacaio path, bounding on " the west," &c. a question is propounded where the beginning of the certificate should be: A committee appointed for the purpose of considering this question, refer it back to the whole house, by whom it is declared, in their opinion, to be at the words " beginning at a marked oak, &c." and the preceding words to be " no essential part of the certificate, but " only serving as a direction to find out the land therein " contained."     1st UPPER HOUSE JOURNAL, commencing 1657¾fol 226. ¾     Capt. Burgess sent by the lower house with the following vote:     " The committee being present in the house, and the act for deserted plantations being read, VOTED that this house supplicate his lordship, by petition, that he would be pleased to assure his rents some other way than by escheating lands in so short a time as three years, for the non-payment of rent, and that his lordship would be pleased to take no advantage by any forfeiture that is not actually escheated already, by virtue of the law for deserted plantations, and that the upper house would be pleased to concur with this house therein, and that his excellency be desired, untill such time as his lordship's pleasure be known therein, to surcease any further prosecution upon that law; and further that all persons may have liberty to sue out their grants for their lands, the rights being good, though the certificate be of never so long standing, and the land not yet actually escheated, and that for the time to come, all instructions that his lordship shall please to transmit to the governor or other officers, about land, may be published, and recorded in the respective county courts, within six months after the said instructions shall come to the hands of the said governor or other officers.                     Signed per order,                                                 ROBERT RIDGELY, Clk."     1st UPPER HOUSE JOURNAL,commencing 1657¾fol 239. ¾ June 3d, 1676.     " Came in a petition exhibited by Giles Stephens, against " Charles James, for relief against the said James, his " omission of returning his certificate of survey upon a " warrant obtained by the said Giles for 300 acres of land, " bearing date the 20th of April, 1674, and surveyed by the