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�To Joseph Norris Esq The Commissioners under the act providing for the separation of Maine from Massachusetts, at their meeting holden at Boston in December 1826, having determined to cause a further survey to be made during the next season, of the undivided lands belonging to the two States, lying South of the line run due West from the Monument by Joseph Norris & Joseph C Norris in 1825 & 1826 and the north line of the fourth range North of Binghams Kennebec purchase and East of Nos 3 in the 1st 2nd 3rd & 4th of said ranges, and north and east of Binghams kennebec purchase and north of the ninth and tenth ranges north of the Waldo patent, and west of the seventh range west of the boundary line except such parts of this tract as has been located & conveyed - To enable you the more easily to ascertain the territory to be surveyed & understand the manner of laying it into townships , and the mode of numbering the ranges, and townships, you will be furnished with a plan, representing the tract to be surveyed, by which you will be governed in making your survey, and plan, as far as the same may be applicable to the actual situation of the territory to be surveyed. The range lines are to be run parallel with the west line of the seventh range of townships West of the boundary line, as run by Norris & McMillan in 1825, and at right angles with the line run due West from the Monument. But should these lines be found, not to be at right angles with each other, then your range lines are to conform to