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The resident surveyorship, an appointment which had been created in 1742, was abolished as no longer necessary, Palmer himself being at hand to give what advice the postmasters-general might require.

From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Joyce, Herbert

My surveyorship is lost, and I have no expectation, nor any desire, of regaining it.

From Memories of Hawthorne by Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne

And, after all, to be rid of the surveyorship was a relief.

From Hawthorne and His Circle by Hawthorne, Julian

Who has ever heard of a Government which binds itself to give the surveyorship of a new country to one man only?

From A Century of Wrong by Reitz, F. W.

The choice, in any case, lay between the Naval Office and the surveyorship, and Bridge urged Hawthorne's appointment to the latter.

From A Study of Hawthorne by Lathrop, George Parsons