Letter to Mr. Dobbs, directing him to enquire into the State of the Grants made in the Year 1746 to the Associates of Murry Crymble & James Huey. 

We have had under Our Consideration the 84th. Article of your Instructions, whereby you are directed to enquire into the State of the Grants made in the Year 1746 to the Associates of Murry Crymble and James Huey, and forthwith transmit to Us an Account thereof; and, when the Term of ten Years, to be computed from the dates of the said Grants, was expired, you was impowered to seize and take possession of, as Escheats, all such parts of the Land as were not settled according to the Terms of the Grants; and as the said Instruction appears to Us to be doubtful, and to admit of different Constructions, We think it Our Duty to acquaint, you that We do not apprehend it was His Majesty's Intention, that any Step should be taken towards seizing the said Lands, until you had examined into the actual State of them, and transmitted an Account thereof to Us, which We desire you will do with all convenient speed, and likewise that you will give notice of this Letter to the Surveyor General or other proper Officers, that they may proceed accordingly. 

Dunk Halifax. 

Fran. Fane. 

J. Talbot.

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