to officers

and soldiers,

establish.

ments.

lands, given general George Weedon, brigadier-general Daniel Morgan, brigadier-general James Wood, colonel Wilon continen. liam Heth, lieutenant-colonels Towles, Hopkins, tal and state Clarke, and Temple, captain Nathaniel Burwell, and captain Mayo Carrington, of the continental line, or any five of them; and brigadier-genoral Clark, colonels Brent, Muter, and Dabney, major Meriwether, captains Roane, Rogers, and Boswell, of the state line, or any three of them, to appoint superintendants on behalf of the respective lines, or jointly, for the purpose of regulating the surveying of the lands appropriated by law as bounties for the said officers and soldiers; and that the said deputations of officers shall have power to nominate and appoint two principal surveyors, to be commissioned as other surveyors within this commonwealth, and contract with them for their fees, who shall appoint their deputies, to be approved by the superintendants; and in case of their death, or inability to act, the superintendants shall have power to appoint from time to time, a successor or successors, as the case One sixth may require. Provided, That one sixth part of the of surveyors fees received by such surveyor or deputies, shall be ed to Wm. & accounted for to the use of the college of William and Mary col. Mary, in the same manner as other surveyors are directed to account for their fees, upon surveys made by them within this commonwealth. That the holder or holders of land warrants for military bounties, given for bounty by law as aforesaid, shall, on or before the fifteenth lands to be day of march next, deliver the same to the principal delivered by March 15. surveyors, at such place or places as they shall, with the advice of the deputations, direct, endorsing on thẹ

fees reserv

lege.

Warrants

in

back of each warrant the number of surveys the same shall be laid off in, specifying the quantity of each Limitation survey. Provided, that a general officer shall not be sa to number allowed more than six, a field-officer five, and a capof surveys. tain and subaltern four surveys, in their respective apportionments of land, and the staff in proportion. The non-commissioned officers and soldiers warrants shall be put into classes, as near as c circumstances will admit, of one thousand acres each, numbered previous to the drawing, and the number of the lot drawn shall be endorsed on every such class; and the sw persons interested in each class, shall determine their

lande on

Cumberland

ed then on

to and Little Miami.

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All the gord IV. And be it further enacted, That the surveyors under the direction of the superintendants, and the and Tenisee claimants having a right to survey from the priority of rivers, to be their numbers shall proceed in the first place to survey first survey all the good lands, to be adjudged of by the superintend north west ants, in that tract of country lying on the Cumberland of Ohio, be- and Tenisée rivers, as set apart by law for the said of tween Scio ficers and soldiers, and then proceed in like manner to»: survey on the north-west side of the river Ohio, be-z tween the rivers Scioto and the Little Miama, until the deficiency of all military bounties in lands shall be ful+ a ly and amply made up. Provided always, That in: such surveys, the same proportions be observed in. length and breadth as are directed by law in other surveys within this commonwealth, and shall be closed and marked on all sides. And whatever lands may happen to be left within the tract of country reserved for the army on this side the Ohio and Mississippi, shall be saved, subject to the order and particular dis position of the legislature of this state. And that the governor, with advice of council, be, and he is hereby empowered and required to furnish the superintendants Governor if with such military aid, at such time, and in such man-«. may furnish ner, as he may judge necessary for the of carpurpose military aid. rving this act into executon. Provided, that the aid to Limitation be ordered shall be from the Kentucky country, and not exceed one hundred men.

necessary

thereof.

of prime tract, on the Mississippi, may be laid off for a

of

V. And whereas the deputations of officers aforesaid, 4000 Acres have represented to this assembly that a certain tract of country, lying on the Mississippi and the waters thereof, is from its situation and other advantages, too much importance to be subject to fall to the lot of any individual, and it now being the request of the said. town. lines, through their respective deputations as aforesaid, that four thousand acres of land should be laid off on the Mississippi and the waters thereof, within the said tracts of country for a town and other public purposes, for the common benefit and interest of the whole: Beit therefore enacted. That the said deputations jointly, be, and they are hereby empowered, to cause four thou sand acres of land to be laid off in such manner and form as they may judge most beneficial for a town, without being confined to any certain length or breadth, as in other surveys, and vested in trustees, at