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 concerning the state of the examination of the said Dr Pettyes survey, with what defects he had observed in reference to the particulars undertaken by the said Dr, and what still remaines further to bee performed for and towards the finall compleating of his whole contract with the Commonwealth, itt is thought fitt and ordered that Captain Stephen Allen, Richard De Lawne, and William Hopkins, or any two of them, being the persons appointed by the Surveyor-Generall to examine the platts and books of references returned by the said Doctor Petty, of the severall barronyes by him admeasured for the army, and to compare the same with the particulars of his contract, and other instructions, pursuant to the order above-mentioned, doe, by Wensday next, in the afternoone, prepare and attend the board with a perfect and particular accompt of the contents of the respective barronyes which the said Dr hath admeasured with the instrument, according to the tenor of his agreement, for the consideration of this board, in reference to the order abovementioned. Dated at the Councill chamber, Dublyn, the 7th of November, 1657. Clerk of the Councill.

When the accompt above mentioned was neer finished, before it came to the auditors to be cast up into money, the Dr did, by the Councells command, digest his humble desires in order to a finall stating of his said accompt into six heads set forth in the following paper:

1st. Because the worke is vouched by the oathes and certificats not only of the measurers themselves but allsoe of certaine examiners noe wayes concerned therein.

2dly. Because the said worke hath been managed by full and perfect instructions, and by rules and a method whereunto nothing could bee added, even by the Surveyor-Generall in this latter undertaking of the adventurers, the which were all followed and practised, as none of the surveyors now imployed on the adventurers lands could deny, who, being bound to noe more then what was formerly practised uppon my owne accompt, would not have borne any such new and unpractized impositions.