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 of Down, Antrim, and Armagh, in the province of Ulster; and to divide all the forfeited lands, meadow, arrable and profitable pasture, with the woods and bogs and barren mountains thereunto respectively belonging, in each of the said counties (except the baronies of Dulick and Slane in the county of Eastmeath) into two equal moyeties, distinguished and bounded each from the other; which division so made, the surveyors shall return by themselves apart, unto you, mentioning onely in gross what honors, baronies, castles, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, each moyety did contain.

You shall likewise give instructions to the said surveyors-general, and the under-surveyors, that, in the next place after the surveying and admeasurement of the said premises in the ten counties aforesaid, they do survey, admeasure, and set forth all and every such of the said forfeited lands and premises as shall lye within the county of Lowth, in the province of Ulster, in such sort as they are appointed to survey, admeasure, and set forth the forfeited lands in the said ten counties, and to return the surveys thereof as soon as the same shall be perfected.

You shall authorize and appoint the surveyors-general to present unto you, from time to time, the names of such fit and able persons, who shall be well skilled in the art of surveying, as shall be necessary for the surveying and admeasurement of the lands and premises aforesaid, and to appoint by warrant under their hands and seals such and so many of them as you shall approve of, and think fit to be surveyors under them, and to allow unto each of them such allowances as the said surveyors-general shall think fit and necessary for carrying on the said work of surveying and measuring the premises as aforesaid, not exceeding three pounds for every thousand acres.

The said surveyors-general shall take a due accompt, that the said under-surveyors discharge their respective duties in this service; and in case of neglect or unfaithfulness in any of them the said surveyors-general shall put out such under-surveyors, and put in such other fit and able person and persons in his or their rooms, from time to time, as they shall think fit.

The said under-surveyors so appointed as aforesaid shall have power to enter into all and every the forfeited lands aforesaid lying within such counties, places, and divisions, as they shall be appointed unto; and as well by the oaths of good and lawful men as by all other lawful ways and means, to enquire and find out all and every the honors, baronies, castles, manors, messuages, lands, tenements, rents, annuities, reversions, remainders, possessions, and other hereditaments whatsoever, which lately, or at any time since the twenty-third day of October, in the year one thousand six hundred forty and one, did belong unto any person or persons whose lands are forfeited as aforesaid, or to any other person in trust for him, them, or any of them, and the true yearly value thereof, as the same were letten for, or worth to be let, in the year one thousand six hundred and forty, or at any time before: and also what part of the premises are chargeable with any pious and charitable use or uses; and also to enquire and survey what timber, buildings, open quarries, and mines are upon the premises, and to make true particular surveys of their proceedings.

The surveyors shall also, in like maner, and by the like ways and means, examine and finde out all such honors, castles, manors, lands, tenements, rents, or hereditaments