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To Joseph Norris & Joseph C Norris

The commissioners under the act providing for the separation of Maine from Massachusetts, at their meeting at Portland in December 1825, having determined to cause a further survey to be made of the undivided lands belonging to Massachusetts and Maine during the next summer, commencing upon the West line of the second range of townships West of the Monument, & extending West (between the line running due West from the Monument and the river St Johns) far enough to include five additional ranges of townships, and reposing confidence in your skill & integrity as a surveyor do hereby appoint you the said Joseph & Joseph C to make said survey or such part thereof as may be in your power to accomplish in the course of next season.

To enable you the more easily to understand the territory to be surveyed, the manner of laying it into townships, & the mode of numbering the ranges & townships, you will be furnished with a plan representing the territory to be surveyed & the adjoining lands already surveyed, by which you will be governed, as far as can conveniently be done, in making your survey & plan - the range lines are to be run parallell with the west line of the second range of townships lately marked by Joseph Norris, and the check lines parallell with the line run West from the Monument & lately marked by Joseph C Norris - the townships are to be six miles square, & the corners of the townships in the third range are to be made upon the line marked by Joseph Norris for the West line of the second range and whenever former locations extend West of that line, you will ascertain