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 amounteth unto upon any former Acts or this present Act of Parliament; always provided the same be paid within three months after the publishing of this Act. And all other adventurers, who have not brought in their moneys, according to their former subscriptions, being now poor and unable to pay in the rest of their adventure, and shall be so adjudged and certified by three justices of the peace, in the respective counties and cities wherein they live (which certificate the said justices are hereby authorized to give under their hands and seals). That certificate, with their former receipts under the treasurer's hand, shall be admitted by the committee of Grocers' Hall, and their certificate thereupon, which they are hereby authorized to give, shall be a sufficient warrant to such poor person or persons to make claim for so much land in Ireland as the money he or they at first advanced shall amount unto upon any former or this present Act, without any other additional payment in money, which said claim shall be allowed of accordingly, and satisfaction be made in land, in like manner as is appointed for the rest of the adventurers, and shall be enjoyed accordingly. And what money shall be brought into the treasury hereupon shall be disbursed for surveying the lands, and defraying other necessary charges in setling the said plantations in such manner as the Parliament shall direct and appoint.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all other the houses and lands of the rebels in Ireland, and all the lands forfeited by virtue of the before-mentioned Acts of Parliament, with their and every of their appurtenances, scituate, lying, and being within all the several provinces and counties of Ireland, except such as are in this Act hereafter excepted, shall be set forth and disposed of by the said commissioners for the uses and purposes hereafter expressed, that is to say, for and towards the satisfaction of such arrears of pay of the officers and soldiers, and others of the present army in Ireland, as became due since the fifth day of June, one thousand six hundred forty and nine, for their service in Ireland, or before that time for their service in England, as aforesaid, which shall not be satisfied and paid out of the forfeited houses and lands, within the ten counties formerly by this Act appointed, whose satisfaction out of the same is to be at the same rates and with the same advantages as are allowed to those that have their payment out of the before-mentioned ten counties; and after satisfaction made as aforesaid, the remainder of the said forfeited houses and lands shall be set forth and disposed of at the rates hereafter expressed, for the  satisfaction of other arrears and debts hereafter mentioned; that is to say, for the satisfaction of all other the arrears of the said officers and soldiers of the present army in Ireland, which became due before the fifth day of June, one thousand six hundred forty-nine, for their service in Ireland not otherwise satisfied. And the arrears of any other officers or soldiers that served the Parliament in England or Ireland, and have continued faithful to the Parliament, for their service done in England or Ireland, which arrears for service done in Ireland, are to be stated by the commissioners for accounts in Ireland, according to the rules and directions to them given in an Act of the late Parliament, entituled, "An Act for stating and determining the accounts of such officers and soldiers as are and have been employed in the service of this