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 made by the committee, of such matters which, in pursuance to the vote of the 18th of July, instant, they had prepared for the councill to consider of, which were read, and severall of the heads thereof debated.

The answer of the Lord Deputy and Councill to the petition of the profitts of the lands, &c., being made and read, it was considered of; and in regard the same granted the profitts only of the ten counties, it was further resolved, that another petition should be drawne, and presented by their next meeting, for to procure the profitts likewise of the other security, and to be assigned over to the agents as aforesaid.

A return of the petition ordered to be prepared for the profitts of the collaterall security being made, and read before the councill, they resolved that it should be engrossed, and presented to the Lord Deputy and Councill; which, being signed by the greatest number of the agents then present, was done accordingly; the substance of which petition was this:—That in regard the Act doth not define a grosse survey, and they not knowing whether the ground and limitation of the concession for the profitts of the moyetie of the ten countyes was granted by a gross survey or downe admeasurement, the Lord Deputy and Councill would soe far admitt the grosse survey allready made noe way contrary to any rule in the Act, as that the profitts of the collaterall security may be sequestred from the State's revenue, and deposited in a third hand, till it appeare to whome of right it doeth belong. And further, that forasmuch as, before they can proceede to the conclusive possession of the rest of their collaterall security, they are by the Act to take the overplus in the moyetie of the ten counties assigned to the adventurers, and the overplus of their collaterall security, by which rule they cannot sit downe till every individuall adventurer be fully setled, which the petitioners conceives, for diverse reasons, will not be effected in many yeares; they, therefore, pray the Lord Deputy and Council, that out of their accustomed care they would be pleased to declare their dispensation of that rule, or make an humble, earnest, and speedy application on the petitioners behalfe for his Highness his dispensation; and the rather, that the overplus, if any be in the adventurers moyety or collaterall security, will probably be as advantagiouse to the State as an overplus in any other part. The