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 the said commissioners, or such as the parliament shall authorize thereunto, shall have power within the space of three years after the expiration of the said term of two years, and not afterward, to cause the same to be re-surveyed and measured, and in case that the said adventurers, officers, or soldiers, or any of them, shall, after the two years as aforesaid, be found possessed of more then is due unto him or them, the said commissioners, or other persons so authorized, shall have power to seize upon such overplus of the land of the said person or persons so in default, to and for the use of the Commonwealth, unless the said person or persons do redeem the same, by paying in ready money for the said overplus six years' purchase, according to the true value thereof in the year one thousand six hundred and forty. Provided that such seizure be made upon such part of the said lands as shall be to the least prejudice of his or their purchase. But if within the term of three years as aforesaid no re-survey and admeasurement shall be made, and overplus found, there shall be from thenceforward no further inquisition made, but the said lands possessed and held upon such gross survey as aforesaid, shall remain and be for ever in the possession of the said adventurers, officers, and soldiers, respectively, their heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, who shall then hold and enjoy the same without any let, trouble, incumbrance, or molestation whatsoever, for or concerning any re-survey or overplus.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all the adventurers, officers, and soldiers, who shall proceed to plant upon their several proportions and alotments of land so to be set out as aforesaid, unto them and their tenants respectively, shall have equal protection against the rebels and other enemies with other members of the Commonwealth of England inhabiting Ireland, and shall have and enjoy all grants, rights, immunities and privileges, which by any former acts or ordinances of parliament shall have been granted unto the adventurers for lands in Ireland, and not restrained by this act.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that in case there shall be found an overplus of the forfeited lands in the respective counties aforesaid, after the adventurers and soldiers are satisfied, the said commissioners of Parliament, or such others as shall be authorized thereunto, shall have power, and are hereby required to set forth and grant out of the same such a proportion of land, not exceeding the value of one thousand pounds yearly rent in any one county, for and towards the erecting and maintaining free schools, and for the setting up and maintaining manufactures in convenient places within those counties.

And be it further enacted, that those powers and authorities which are mentioned in the third article of the first Act of Parliament, for the adventurers for lands in Ireland, for appointing of maintenance for preaching ministers, erecting of corporations, and regulating the several plantations, according to the intent and meaning both of the former Acts and ordinances, and in pursuance of this present Act, be and hereby are vested in the said commissioners of Parliament, or such others as shall be authorized thereunto, who are to execute the same