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I may further be permitted to Draw for a Sum of Money (or to be [illegible] with it) from time to time, not Exceeding five Hundred Pounds Sterling in all acct to defray all the Traveling [illegible} from it, & to Pay the Wages and Provisions for the people requisite to Assist me when Surveying ~ And that I may have Accommodations to the Governors of the Different States to be furnished with a Boat and Guides where I have occasion for Should the Government be pleased to approve of my propositions I shall Chearfully engage myself to furnish, twelve months after the [illegible], I have [illegible] the Approbation, a Map with the Necessary Plans annexed to it, with every explanations, Remarks, and an Estimate of the Expenses attending it, if no unforeseen accidents happen. I shall likewise not omit, to make all Military [illegible], as far as my Capacity will Permit me, if demanded. And I promise that the whole Sum of Expences in making these [Sur]veys Shall not exceed five Hundred Pounds Sterling, excluding hire of a Boat or Guides I may be furnished with at times Requisite An Apprehension, that the interested [natives?] of the Different States, and in the former Government could [illegible]strate my Wished has hitherto prevented me to attempt to lay [illegible] Present Proposition sooner before the Honorable the Congress I hope, that my humble and well meaning proposition may meet with Kind Reception and if the Execution of so great a Plan should be thought Premature