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variation of the compass and note the course which you actually run by the needle, on your field book, and the time when you run it. If you find the variation different in different parts of your survey you will note it in your field minutes. You will see that the men under your care and superintendance are faithful and diligent in their respective departments, especially you will be careful that your chainbearers are well instructed in their duty and perform it faithfully. In executing said surveys you will ascertain what settlements, improvements or depredations are made on the land you survey and return to us - the names of the persons possessing or claiming any right, and the authority by which they claim and the time when they made such settlement or depredation. When you find yourselves obliged to lay out irregular townships you will carefully mark the courses and distances & calculate & place on a map you shall make the quantity of acres in each township. You will run out the exterior lines of each town-ship surveyed by you, but need not re-survey the townships already laid out any further than to ascertain the lines of the townships you survey. We have employed Joseph Norris Esq to survey two ranges of townships north of the line run by you from the monument above mentioned and have directed him after having completed that survey to come and assist in surveying the township South of the line by you run, West of the Monument, beginning on the first tier of townships in the third range West of the Eastern boundary South of your East & West line, & proceed till he finds you, or finds that you have completed the surveys in that quarter. Should he undertake to survey other part of the land South of said East & West line you will furnish