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 1st. Reducing all the troopes and companyes of the army into such divisions as they stood in anno 1654, when they cast their lotts, which an establishment made since that time had disordered.

2dly. In pitching such a quota pars or proportion, wherein to satisfie the said army, as might consist with the commissioners obligation as to the further satisfaction of those disbanded anno 1653; and allsoe as to such reprizalls as might happen on past or future satisfaction.

3dly. In associating debentures duely, that is, in placing such and such together as might best answer the rules of the afforementioned Councill, Aprill, 1654, with such few exceptions as invincible necessity required; as allsoe in making out lands for the grand divisions, especially those of Munster, with due reservations, as above required.

May it please your Lordshipps:

Whereas there are dayly applications to us, by severall persons who pretend a desire to plant, if they might be accommodated by a proportion of land convenient thereunto, by joyning of severall small debentures together, though of severall regiments, which thing wee are doubtfull wee have noe power to doe, by reason of some resolves formerly made by the generall councill; yett in regard the doeing of the same will not tend to the damage of any person or lott, but would much tend to the preservation of many poor people from ruine, whose whole estates is therein concerned, and allsoe to the planting of Ireland, wee humbly conceive it were a worke of charity and publicke advantage for your Lordshipps to give a rule herein; all which wee humbly submitt, &c. Dated at the Castle of Dublyn, the 25th of June, 1656. Signed in the name and by order of the commissioners,

4thly. In ascertaining what lands were disposeable, in pursuance of all Acts of Parliament, and of the ensueing order of the Councill, as allsoe of the practise of the preceeding yeare, 1655, and right reason, with the rules of distinguishing and neating the said disposeable land from such as were not; moreover, in the deriving of warrant for every thing that was done therein from the most authentique ground extant, as allsoe in executing the said business by meanes