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 the last article of the further instructions of the council of State, or as are particularly before in this Act disposed or appointed for the disbanded forces, widows, or orphans, in this Act before mentioned; all and every of which said manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, or manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments to such value as have been given, granted, or setled, or intended to be given, granted, or setled as aforesaid, which are before in this Act disposed or appointed for the said disbanded forces, widows, or orphans; or as have been assigned or ordered by any Act, ordinance, or order of Parliament for satisfaction of debt, either in the said counties of Dublin, Cork, Kildare, or Caterlagh, or in any other the counties or provinces of Ireland; and also all grants, priviledges, and immunities made and given by the commissioners of Parliament in Ireland upon the propositions of the late Lord Deputy Ireton for the planting of Waterford (confirmed by the late Parliament), and to the present tenant or tenants of the island called the Little Island, in the river of Waterford, shall be and are hereby confirmed to them, their heirs and assignes, respectively, according to the true intent and meaning of such Acts, ordinances, orders, instructions, and grants, as aforesaid; any thing in this present Act, or in the former Acts or ordinances for the adventurers for lands in Ireland, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

Provided always and be it hereby declared, that no surveyor-general, register, under-surveyor, or any other person imployed in the execution of this service, his or their childe or children, during the time of their imployment, or any in trust for him or them, shall be admitted directly or indirectly to be a purchaser of any part of the lands to be surveyed, upon pain that the purchase be void unless that they do first acquaint the commissioners of Parliament with their desires, and obtain license from them for the same.

Provided always, that if any of the aforesaid persons to be imployed by this Act, their childe or children, heirs or executors, have arreares or publique debts due unto them from the Parliament which shall be allowed of as aforesaid, that the commissioners of Parliament be, and are hereby authorized to lay out and make over lands for their satisfaction in such manner and at such rates as are appointed by this present Act for other arrears or debts of the same nature.

Provided always, that this Act, or anything therein contained, do not extend unto the forfeited lands in the province of Connaught and the county of Clare, nor any part thereof, for the ends and purposes aforesaid; except the lands about Sligo, and upon the sea-coast in this Act before-mentioned, to be assigned and set apart for the said forces lately disbanded, but that the said forfeited lands within the said province and county except as aforesaid, shall be and hereby are reserved and appointed for the habitation of all the Irish nation, comprehending in the qualifications mentioned in the Act, entituled, "An Act for setling Ireland," and for other the ends and uses specified and appointed in the foresaid further instructions from the council of state to the said commissioners, who are to dispose of the same accordingly.

Provided also, that in case the said commissioners of Parliament shall finde it inconvenient or dilatory to proceed in the first place to the