Act for Regulating Surveyors

The Act for Regulating Surveyors of 1683 was a law of the Colony of Jamaica that provided that the Crown surveyor was to be responsible for surveys in Jamaica only when the Crown was a party to the relevant matter and that otherwise, any person may make a survey. It was revised by An Act For Further Directing and Regulating the Proceedings of Surveys in the same year. The acts were significant due to the importance of surveys in the functioning of the plantation economy of the colony.^[1]^[2]

References

^ "The Making of Jamaican Estate Maps in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" by B. W. Higman in David Buisseret, ed. (1996). Rural Images: Estate Maps in the Old and New Worlds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 113–136 (p. 113). ISBN 978-0-226-07990-5.
^ "Jamaica Land Surveying Before the Survey Department", B. W. Higman, Jamaica Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2 (May–July 1988), pp. 21-27. Digital Library of the Caribbean.

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[Buis-1] "The Making of Jamaican Estate Maps in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" by B. W. Higman in David Buisseret, ed. (1996). Rural Images: Estate Maps in the Old and New Worlds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 113–136 (p. 113). ISBN 978-0-226-07990-5.

[hig2-2] "Jamaica Land Surveying Before the Survey Department", B. W. Higman, Jamaica Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2 (May–July 1988), pp. 21-27. Digital Library of the Caribbean.

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