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  out of such allowance as shall be judged fitt to bee made him for his care and paines in setting out lands for the satisfaction of the army, or other publicke services by him to bee performed, and accordingly to bee accomptable for the same, of which the Auditors-Generall and others concerned are to take notice. Dated at the Councill chamber, in Dublin, the third of Aprille, 1657. Clerk of the Councill.

  ITHERTO hath been sett forth the manner of bringing in, examining, and accompting for the said survey; itt remaines to sett forth the like narrative of the manner of paying for it, and clearing the severall summes due uppon the said accompts, vizt:

There was two thousand pounds paid as advance money by the order of the 17th of December; about May following there was granted another order for one thousand pounds and five hundred, just as the Lord Deputy Fleetwood and some of the Councill were going a progress into the countrey, with directions that the said order should not be delivered the Doctor untill hee had produced such and soe much worke as answered the said summe, according to the letter of the contract, or equivalently, which was observed: accordingly, 11th of May, the following order issueth:

Ordered,

That it bee referred to the Commissioners-Generall of the Revenue, and Mr. Standish, Receiver-Generall of the Revenue of Ireland, to consider of the agreement made with Dr Petty for admeasurement of forfeited and other lands in Ireland, as allsoe of the generall vote of the councill of officers of the 18th of December last, concerning the armyes proportion of the pay undertaken to bee made to Dr Petty, for his worke of surveying their lands allotted for their respective arreares, and how the same may be reimbursed to the public treasury