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 irregularity can be made appeare to have been practized by them in acquiring the said satisfaction.

2dly. Your petitioners thinke fitt, publicke notice being given in churches, diurnalls, and by all other convenient wayes, both in England and Ireland, that such accompts or desires ought to bee brought unto the persons which shall be nominated as aforesaid; that such adventurers as doe not bring in the said accompts or desires within two moneths after the above mentioned supposed perfect rule is declared to bee sealed up, shall not have any benefitt of their said former assumptions or possessions not being according to the said rule. And withall, that all surveyes made at the charge of the adventurers, which shall not bee brought in and exhibited within the said two moneths time, either at London or Dublyn, shall be declared null, and the distributions made uppon them bee consequently declared null and voyd likewise.

3dly. They humbly propound that the person or persons to bee appointed at London to receive the said surveyes, and the above mentioned desires of particular adventurers to continue in their satisfactions formerly assumed, doe transmitt the said surveyes and desires to the above mentioned committee at Dublyn, consisting both of your Lordshipps instruments and of those other persons recommended by the adventurers as afforesaid, to the end that the reasonableness of the said desires, as allsoe of such other desires as shall bee exhibited at Dublyn, may bee examined; in order whereunto your petitioners humbly propound:

1st. That the distribution to all persons who are concerned in a barony, whereoff the survey is not produced as afforesaid, be null.

2dly. That allthough the survey be produced, yett if the barrony plott whereby the distribution of the said barrony hath been actually made, hath not been, according to appearing outline of the same, divided into four parts, answerable to the four proportions or quarters of money respectively which appeare by the booke of lotts to have been drawne uppon them, but that there is contained in one or more of such quarters above fifteene per cent. more or less then there ought to bee, your petitioners conceive that soe grosse a miscarriage in the foundation of the distribution is a sufficient reason why all the distributions founded thereuppon shall bee declared null.

3dly. Where the States survey maketh more disposeable acres in any barrony then the private survey exhibited by the adventurers doth, whether the same happen by the adventurers omitting of certaine parcells taken in by the