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find any such that he Certify the same to his Lordships Lieu^t
there and desire his Order to have such Land Surveyed by the
Surveyor General and in Case it be found that his Lordship
be wronged by any such Grant that he desire the said Lieu^t
to Certify the same
2 Item that he Survey no Land in the said Province to be
Granted by his Lordship to any person or Persons whatsoever

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but by order from time to time from his Lordship or his Lieu-
tenant of the said Province or such as he shall appoint
3 Item that he call Courts of Enquiry and Survey once
every year in all the several Counties of the said Province for
which he is first to demand of his Lordships Lieutenant an
Authority by a Commission in his Lordships Name under the
Great Seal of the said Province to enquire and Examine the
right? and Titles which any one Claim to any Lands in the said
Province and whether they possess more Land then their due
or whether they hold by any Lawful title from his Lordship
and what Rents and Services they ought to pay to his Lord-
ship that he enter the same in a Book and make two Copies
thereof one of which he is yearly to send to his Lordship and
the other he is to deliver to his Lordships Receiver General
there the better to inform him what Rents are due to his Lord-
ship
4 Item that he reserve for his Lordship all such places as he
shall find to be Convenient for the Building of Fortifications
and fortresses for the defence of the Country
5 Item that he take special Care that there be not Surveyed
for any Adventuror or Planter above fifteen Pole of the sides
of any Creeke or Rivers of the said Province for every fifty
Acres due to any such Planter or Adventuror by his Lordships
Conditions of Plantation or other warrant and so respectively
of Greater Proportions without special and express directions
from his Lordship to the Contrary and the rest to be laid forth
up into the inland Correspondent to that which each one hath
respectively on the water side according to the proportion
aforesaid that so Conveniency of Access to the water side be

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preserved to every planter upon each of their respective Planta-
tions for the better Transportation of their Goods
6^th Item that the Surveyor General take Care that according
to his Lordships former Instructions divers mannors in the
most Convenient Places of the said Province that is to say two
Mannors at least in each County of the said Province from
time to time (as occasion shall require) be laid out for the
particular use of his Lordship and his heirs and erected into
Mannors every of which mannors are to Contain six thousand
Acres of Land a piece at the least and the one sixth part thereof
lying all together in some one Convenient place of every such

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