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 petition was by the appointment of the councill delivered to the Lord Deputy and Councill by Collonell Sankey, Collonell Abbot, and Collonell Ingoldby, who returned from their Honoures with this verball answer, vizt:

That the profitts of the security mentioned in the said petition should be put into the hands of their receivers for the severall precincts, and reserved soe that noe part of those rents due from May last should before the first of November be disposed off; and as to the other part of the petition, they were pleased to declare that they would condescend to dispence with the forementioned rule, in the granting forth of the collatterall security. The councill, after a full debate, had put the following question, vizt:

Whether the rents and proffits of the moyetie of the ten countyes now granted by the Lord Deputy and Councill to the use of the army, shall be collected by order and appointment of the agents for the respective provinces, and disposed of accordingly? Resolved in the affirmative.

The councill of agents did further take into their consideration the proposalls tendered by the committee who were appointed to prepare for their debate such things as they should conceive would conduce to the procuring them a legall title to their lands, as alsoe such other matters as tend to the further settlement and wellfare of the army.

Whether agents shall be nominated and impowered to doe such act and things as they shall judge conduceing to the making an indefeaseable title to the lands which shall be assigned the souldiery for their arrears? Resolved in the affirmative.

Whether such agents shall have power to distburse such sums of money as they shall judge necessary for the most advantagiouse carreying on of the said worke, according to the instructions they shall receive? Resolved in the affirmative.

Whether the agents shall be limitted in their exspence, in the carrying on of the said worke? Resolved in the affirmative.