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 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 mark [underlined.]