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by the Lieutenant-Governor — his orders were always in the form of commandb— to 

 send a surveying party into the London District to survey and lay out the new 

 road, and upon the recommendation of Col". Talbot the post of surveyor was 

 ofFered to Mahlou Burwell, being his first commission from the Government. The 

 instructions, under date of March 24th, 1809, were in the following terms : 



" In obedience to His Excellency, the Lieutenant-Governor's commands to us, 

 bearing date the 17th February, 1809, to send a surveyor and a sufficient party, as 

 soon as the season will permit, to complete certain surveys in the Loudon District 

 recommended by the Executive Council and approved by His Excellency the 

 Lieutenant Governor, upon a petition submitted to the Board from Thomas Talbot, 

 Esq., of Port Talbot, Avho has recommended you to carry the said surxey into 

 execution. 



" You are hereby required and directed without loss of time, as soon as the 

 season will permit, to survey and lay out a road to pass through the aforesaid 

 townships upon the principle of Youge street, by making the said road in breadth 

 one Gunther's chain, and laying out lots thereon of 20 chains in breadth on each 

 side of the same, leaving a road on the side lines of each of the said townships, and 

 a road between every five lots in each of the same, of one Gunther's chain. 



" For this survey your pay will be 7/6 per day, with an allowance in lieu of 

 rations of 1/3 Provincial currency per day. 



" Your party is to consist of eight men, that is to say, two chainbearers and 

 six axe men only, considering the country through which you have to pass is 

 lightly wooded, by having little or no underbrush. 



" The chainbearers will be allowed 2/- per man per day. The axemen will be 

 allowed 1/6 per man per day, all Provincial currency, and you will be allowed for 

 each ration furnished to your party 1/3 Provincial currency per man ]>er day. 



" The ration to be of the following species, viz., 1^ lb. flour, J lb. of pork and 

 ^ pint of peas. 



"You are to understand that this allowance to you of 1/3 Provincial currency- 

 per man per day for each ration is to cover all expenses whatsoever, such as 

 transport, batteau hire, camp ketttes, axes, tommyhawks, tents, bags, snowshoes, 

 etc. 



" The chainbearers must be sworn to the faithful discharge of their trust before 

 they enter upon their operation. This you are authorized to do yourself, under an 

 Act of the Province of Quebec, no law in the Province of Upper Canada having 

 been made to the contrary ; but it will appear more solemn and have a better eftect 

 to have it performed by a magistrate. 



" The whole of your party, being eight in number, are actually to be employed 

 in the field without any subterfuge, as you will be obliged to make oath to this 

 fact. But should you not be able to engage the whole of your party — that is to .say 

 eight men, including axemen and chainbearers — you are to bear no more men ou 

 your pay list than those who are actually employed in the field. 



"Should you be under the necessity of discharging any of your party before 

 the survey is completed, you must keep four open pay lists for that i)urpose. which 

 the person so discharged must sign, whose signature must be witnessed by some 

 person of respectability (if possible), and those who remain with you are also to be 

 borne on the said pay list, a form of which is herewith enclosed for your guidance, 

 so that the whole of the expense incurred on your survey shall not exceed the 

 number of men your party is rated at, which must be sworn to according to the 

 form given. 



"You must keep a field book of the whole of your operation, noting everything 

 worthy of remark, but in particular the white and yellow pine, and the lots on 

 which it is to be found, which must be so clear and distinct that the whole thereof 

 may be traced on the plan, not only by a surveyor but by any person who can read 

 writing, which must also be sworn to and returned with your pay lists and 

 vouchers. 



"You must keep a diary or journal, clearly explicit, as how you have 

 expended your time, in which 'you iiiwst enter everything worthy of remark, par- 

 ticularly tiae white and yellow pine fit or not fit for masting according to the best 

 of your'knowledge and belief, and such mines and minerals, etc., that you may 

 pass in the course of your operation, noting the lot and concession whereon the 



