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A, B, and C, are, by an order of the Councill of State of the 1st of June, 1653, appointed a committee for certaine ends and purposes (prout); the Parliament of the 26th of September following confirmes that order; the Councill of State is dissolved the 16th of December, the Protectorshipp and a new Councill succeeding under a new forme of government:

Quere,—Whether the order of the Councill of State, allthough confirmed as afforesaid, bee determined?

Whether the committee of adventurers had any power over any other then defective barronys, by vertue of the ordinance of the 1th of August, 1654?

Whether they could act before they certainely knew which barronyes were defective?

Their ordinance being dated after the Act of Satisfaction, and after the commission and instructions to Cha. Ffleetwood, &c., whereby the lands sett out unto each man are to be distinguished by their quality, quantity, name, scituation, &c., whether any rule or method not answering these ends, which the said committee can contrive, is allowable?

Whether the registering of the certificat of particular allottment be not necessary to seisin and possession, and whether the registring the certificat of the committee of claimes be necessary?