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( 2 ) the Boundaries of the other Tradls thereui^to adjoining (hall permit. — In the Performance of which you are to govern yourlelf by the following Inftruc- tions. — viz. I. — In order to avoid all Difputes that might hereafter arife from the Line being infufficiently marked, you are to mark the fame in the moft confpi- cuous manner, blazing the Trees on each fide thereof with Three Blazes, /9 tt7>, one Blaze on each fide in the dire(5tion of the Line, and one Blaz^ j on that fide by which the Line (hall pafs. — And in order to avoid fuch Er- y / ^ rors as might arife from your Needle being drawn afide by attractive matter, ** I yo^* ^''^ carefully to attend to the making of back Obfervations on your Line whereby to correct any deviations that may at anytime take place, and for this purpofe you arc to cut away fUch trees and underwood as Ihall ob(lni6t ^ your view, and m ay With facility be removed «-f -But as linneceflary delays are~to be carefully avoided, and a firi<^t attention paid to ceconomy, you are to be, particulajfly careful not to lofe time by cutting away any other trees or underv. ood than 0i,all be abfolutely neceflary for enabling you to perform your furvey in an accurate a^d workmanlike mannpr j and where this can be done by cutting a block out of a tree which (hall obftrudl your view, in- Aead of cutting the fame down, you are to take that method which (hall be the (horteft, obferving to mark all the trees which you (hall leave (landing in your line with two blazes one above another, on each fide thereof, in the diredion of the line. You are likewife to fix ports of cedar (or other the ihoft durable wood that may be at hand) at the end of every mile meafured on your line, mark- ' ine the number of miles thereon to ferve as a guide to the future Surveyor : who may be employed in laying out the faidTown(hip into Lots or Farms. iAnd at the feveral comers of the faid Townlhip you are to eredl a fquare •poft of cedar or other durable wood, marking the name of the Townfhip thereon, and alfo the names of the adjoining Town(hips where any have have been named, together with the date of the year wnen furvey ed; and place a heap of Aones round the fame, if (lones (hall be at hand; blazing \ all the trees in the vicinity likewife to make the place the more confpi- cuous. y II. As the errors which take place in furveying are often occafioned by bad chaining, you are to be particularly careful in the choice, and conftant* ly attentive to the conduct, of your chain-bearers; whom you are likewife to caufe to be fwom for the faithful difcharge of their duty previous to the commencement of your work. You will alfo be careful in directing them to carry their chain as level as pofiTible in going up and down hills : the hindermoft man holding up his end of the chain perpendicularly over the ftick in goine up hills, and the foremoft man holding up his end of the chain in I' going £)wn hills, and placing the (lick where it (hall firft (Irike the ground on being dropped perpendicularly from the extremity of the chain, to the end that the horizontal diftance may be always noted in your field-book ; I and in cafes where the hills (hall be too deep for the chain to be held I level at its full length, you are to dired the chain-men to meafure with I the one half thereoT, putting a ftick at every fecond meafure of thofe half- \lengths. V IIL You • I • • ( ( r)3 ( 3 ) III. You ait to keep an accounf in your field-book of the courfes anJ dilbnccs (in EngltJJj chains und inks) of your leveral lines ;— The quuhty of the foil you pafs over, and the feveral forts of timber growing thereon ;•*« Whether any or what part thereof Ihall be fit for the cultivation of hemp or flax; or what other produ*::tions you Ihall judge it moft proper for ; — as olfo the feveral rivers, brooks, and Arcams fit for mills; (lone quarries, minerals, and (in fhort) all other obfervations that may tend to the public utility and benefit : noting in your field-book the breadth of the feveral ri- vers and {lreamb,and the courfe they run, as well as the diilances meafured oti jthe line, at which fuch rivers or ftreams were crofled, or at which fuch quar- f ''■' •? /''^s* minerals, &c. were found. — You are likewife to note each day of the y ! J ^ month in your field-book, to the icnd that the work of each day may be dif- tinguifhed ; and to make tlie whole of your entries with fuch care and ac- curacy as Ihall enable you to anfwer any queftions relative thereto on oath, if the fame Ihould be required ; — an attefted copy of which field-book you are to deliver into this office, together with a plan of the faid townfhip laid down from a fcale of forty chains in an inch, defignatine the hills, fwamps, rivers, and ftreams that you (hall have obferved; diilinguilhine thofe ftreams that are fifty links wide and upwards by a double line, ana thofe of a fmaller fize by a fingle line, together likewife with an arrow to '\ihew which way the faid ftreams rurv IV. It being required (as you will obferve from the copy of tl^wanant hereunto annexed) that the Petitioners Ihould make provifion for exempting the Crowu from more than oite half of the expences of the faid furvey , you are therefqre, previous to any expences being incurredj to make fuch a- greement for tnis purpofe with the Petitioners or fome perfon on their be- half (with refp<*