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 not lyeable to any deceit or injury; and lastly, in the manner of disposing afterwards the lands then withdrawne as indisposeable.

Whereas a doubt hath been propounded by the Surveyor-Generall, concerning the giving possession of severall lands admeasured and returned, both in the barronyes belonging to the adventurers and souldiers, by reason that some are, by orders from this board, suspended from being disposed or sett out to any untill further pleasure; by reason allsoe that others, allthough decreed away by the court for adjudicature of claimes, are only mentioned at large in the county, without specifying the barrony where the said lands doe lye: uppon consideration had thereoff, as likewise that titles for many lands are still depending before the courts of his Highness Exchequer, itt is held adviseable by the said Councill, and accordingly ordered, that in all such barronyes, whether belonging to the adventurers or souldiers, where the said Surveyor-Generall shall find any lands doubtfull or incumbred as afforesaid, and shall have noe sufficient ground before him whereby to judge whether the said lands bee certainly forfeited or not, the said Surveyor-Generall, for the better preventing of all disorders and inconveniencies that might otherwise happen, both to proprietors and to the said adventurers and souldiers, is in all such cases required and authorized to respit the said lands from beeing disposed of, whereof both the said Surveyor-Generall and all others concerned are to take notice. Dublyn Castle, 17th of January, 1655. Clerke of the Councill.

5thly, In bringing all the said disposeable lands into such files of contiguity or strings of succession as might render the armyes former proceedings a true and genuine lottery indeed, which tis certaine was never soe before.

6thly. In setting rates uppon the lands soe ranged into strings, in order whereunto was the following resolve made about odd roots and perches:

Md. The officers of the army, having mett, agreed that all advancements and abatements made uppon the rates of lands, over and above the Act rates, be made by even groates, for the more easie and just casting up of debentures, vizt, by