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 . And also to take order for the erecting of publique meeting-places for the worship of God, and for laying out highways of convenient breadth, and for building and repairing bridges for the ready passage of travellers and carriages from place to place throughout the country.

And to the end the said adventurers, officers, and soldiers, and other person or persons who shall have lands alotted, granted, or set out unto them by virtue of this Act, may be confirmed and setled in their respective shares, proportions, alotments, and purchases, be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every adventurer and adventurers having a certificate under the hands and seals of any five or more of the committee at Grocers' Hall aforementioned, whereby he or they are enabled and authorized to make their claims of lands in Ireland, respectively, according to the said order of the said council of state, dated the first of June, one thousand six hundred fifty and three. And all and every officer or soldier having (after the division made among the officers and soldiers) a certificate under the hands and seals of the commissioners of Parliament, or any two or more of them, and all other person or persons who shall become purchaser or purchasers of any houses or lands having a certificate or conveyance under the hands and seals of the commissioners of Parliament, or such others as shall be authorized thereunto, shall from and immediately after the setting out and particular alotting unto them their respective shares and proportions accordingly, and the due recording or registering thereof, with the publique register for the said lands, be and are hereby adjudged to be in the actual possession and seisin of all and every such houses and lands, with all things thereunto belonging, mentioned in his or their shares and alotments; and that he or they may then forthwith enter upon, have, hold, and enjoy the same to him or them, their heirs or assigns, for ever, respectively, to be held in free and common socage as of the Castle of Dublin, under the covenants and conditions reserved and made, or now reserved and made as by this Act is directed, limited, and appointed.

And be it further enacted by this present Parliament, and the authority thereof, that all those adventurers for lands in Ireland, which shall partake of the privileges in this Act contained, shall be excluded the benefit of any forfeiture committed by any of the adventurers who have not paid in their monies according to the tenor of any former Act of Parliament, any clause in the former Acts or ordinances expressed in anywise notwithstanding.

And all persons, corporations, or bodies politique, who have made default by nonpayment of their full subscriptions, shall have liberty to pay to Thomas Andrews, alderman of the City of London, so much money as may fill up and satisfie his or their former subscriptions, or such a part as may not be of a lesser proportion then was formerly paid by him or them in the year one thousand six hundred forty and two, and the receipts of the said Thomas Andrews given in that behalf, which he is hereby authorized to give, shall be admitted by the committee at Grocers' Hall, and their certificate thereupon, which they are also authorized to give, shall be a sufficient warrant to him or them so paying, to make claim for so much land as the money now paid being added to the former payment, Rh