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 dispose the drawing of lots for ascertaining to the said adventurers where their dividends of lands shall be; and one commission under the great seal of England, bearing date the two and twentieth day of June, one thousand six hundred and fiftythree, directed to Charles Fleetwood, Esq., Lieutenant- General of the army in Ireland, Edmond Ludlow, Esq., Lieutenant-General of the Horse, Miles Corbet, Esq., and John Jones, Esq., authorizing them, or any two or more of them, to put in execution the  instructions thereunto annexed; and the further instructions from the council of state to the said Charles Fleetwood, Esq., and other the said commissioners in Ireland, or any two of them, bearing date the second day of July, one thousand six hundred fifty and three; and all the powers and authorities given and contained in the said order, commission, instructions, and further instructions, be and are hereby ratified and confirmed.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that one moyety of such the forfeited lands, as shall be by vertue of the said commission and instructions surveyed, measured, ascertained, and set forth, and all and every of them as are within the respective counties of Limerick and Tipperary (including that part thereof anciently called Holy Cross, otherwise Cross Tipperary), and Waterford, in the province of Munster, the King's County, the Queen's County, and the counties of Eastmeath and Westmeath, in the province of Leinster; the baronies of Duleek and Slane, in the said county of Eastmeath, being included, any former exception thereof in the said instructions to the contrary notwithstanding. And the counties of Down, Antrim, and Armagh, in the province of Ulster, shall be and are hereby charged with the sum of three hundred and sixty thousand pounds, for and towards the satisfaction of the adventurers for lands in Ireland, who subscribed and paid in their moneys, according to the several acts and ordinances of Parliament, mentioned and particularized in the said commission under the great seal, to be made unto them in land, according to the rates, proportions, and conditions expressed, limited, and provided in and by the said acts and ordinances respectively; and that the other moyety of such of the forfeited lands as are within the counties aforesaid, shall be, and are hereby charged for the security, and towards the satisfaction of the arrears of pay due to the officers and soldiers of the present  army in Ireland, to be made to them at the same rates with the adventurers, that is to say, after the rate of one thousand acres in Leinster for six hundred pounds, one thousand acres in Munster for four hundred and fifty pounds, and one thousand acres in Ulster for two hundred pounds, all according to Irish measure, together with such other advantages of bog, wood, and mountain, as are allowed to the adventurers.

Provided always, that those officers and soldiers onely, and their executors, administrators, and assigns, shall have the benefit of these concessions, who are or have been of the present army in Ireland, and for the arrears of pay grown due unto them since the fifth day of June, one thousand six hundred forty and nine, and for such other arrears as became due unto them for their service in England, before