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measure, & active able bodied men as spotters & baggage men, & you are particularly instructed to see that they all act faithfully & diligently in their respective employments. You will receive these instructions from George Bliss, and Reuel Williams, Esqr two members of the board of Commissioners together with the plans and documents referred to, & you are to conform to such further instructions as they may give in the premises & you may correspond with them should you wish further directions or advise relative to the survey - You will make & return duplicate maps of your survey on parchment, by a scale of two miles to one inch, & return duplicate copies of your field notes.

We feel it to be our duty to press upon you the importance of making the survey accurately & faithfully & of having the lines and corners so marked that they can easily be found & understood - What you do perform it well - the evils resulting from inaccurate or insufficient surveys makes it incumbent on us to give these injunctions -

Portland Dec 31, 1825

                                      George Bliss
                                       Benj. J. Porter
                                       Chas Turner
                                       Reuel Williams
                                       Silas Hohman
                                       Daniel Rose