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able to attend to it before he consults with you.

You will begin and lay out ranges to townships six miles square down to the ninth range or located lands. You will in this way lay out all the undivided lands South of the monument except the townships to be surveyed by the other Surveyor, beginning at the East & proceeding westwardly as far as you are able. When you find there is not sufficient unlocated land to make a township six miles square you will include it in the adjoining town- ship. Your general object will be to have as few small tracts or gores of land as may be. The way in which the townships are to be laid out will as far as practicable be delineated on a plain given you, and also the number & mark by which they are to be designated to which you will conform, unless on surveying you find that to be im- possible and in such case will distinctly notice the deviation and the cause of it in your field book. In all your surveys you will carefully mark & spot your ranging lines at convenient distances and at the end of every mile from the corner of a township you will make a durable mile [underlined] mark [underlined] and note it in your field books and at the end of each mile you will notice the soil, face of the Country timber & waters in said mile - you will carefully make durable marks and bounds at the corner of each township by you surveyed, & after completing the survey of a township, you will give as far as you are able a general description of the face of the Country, timber, streams, waters and mill sites, on the township that we may be able the better to judge of the relative value of each township. The lines when it is practicable are to tun due North and South and East & West - you will notice the variation