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Jos. M.^cMinn to Major Brown
Commissioner to examine Surveyors
officers &c

Executive office
Murfreesboro 6^th Ap^r 1819

Sir

Your letter of acceptance of the office of commissioner
under the act entited an act &c has been duly received and
in pursuance thereof your commission is herewith
forwarded.

The law under which you derive your autho
=rity, having been drawn very much in detail, and the
objects of the Legislature so distinctly exhibited as to render
anything in the form of instructions almost unneces
=sary, except as to the following Points.

Altho the Commissioners books are not
named in the Law, they are nevertheless deposited in
The Registers office, by legal authority, & consequently
form a part thereof, which will place them entirely
under your Controul [sic] in relation to an examination
and report thereon, the object of which will be to ascertain the
gross amount of acres ^in warrants which have issued between the or
=ganization & termination of the Law under which the
different board, of commissioners have acted.

I recommend a carefull [sic] examination of the
Books Kept by The Registers for recording warrants &