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 the instructions I have received, and shall receive in that behalf; and that I will not, for favour or aflfection, malice, reward, or gift, or hopes of reward or gift, break the same."

"I, A. B., do swear, that I will faithfully and truly, according to my best skill and knowledge, perform the duty and trust of a surveyor, in all such surveys as I shall be employed in, according unto the instructions which I have received, and such further instructions as I shall receive, from the commissioners of Parliament or surveyors-general; and shall make true returns thereof unto the surveyors-general and register; and shall neither for fear or favour, malice or reward, or hopes of reward, violate the trust reposed in me."

The register shall take and have the custody and keeping of all leiger-books, writings, and evidences which shall belong or in any wise appertain unto the lands, tenements, and premises, which are to be returned unto him by the surveyors, as also the duplicates of the surveys which shall be returned to him, which he shall fairly lay up and keep in good order, making catalogues of them in such manner as that any person may come readily to have a view of the same, and the said register hath power to give copies attested under his hand.

"I, A. B., do swear, that I will faithfully and truly, according to my best skill and knowledge, execute the office and place of register for the several lands in Ireland forfeited for treason, and other lands to be surveyed, according to the trust in me reposed, and such instructions as I shall receive in that behalf; and that I will not for fear, favour, malice or reward, or hope of reward, violate the said trust."

The like oath for the deputy-register, mutatis mutandis.

For the better keeping and preserving of the surveys, and all such records and writings as shall concern the premises, you are to appoint some convenient and publique place or house within the city of Dublin, for the surveyors-general and register to keep their said offices in, as you shall think fit.

The surveyors-general shall have each of them, from the date of their commission, the yearly salary of four hundred pounds, and the register the yearly salary of three hundred pounds; the one-half whereof to be paid to each of them in ready money quarterly, by equal portions out of the revenue of Ireland, by your warrant, the other half in lands, after the same rate as shall be allowed to those who have money due upon publique faith.

You are hereby impowered to allow unto such clerks and other officers as you shall finde necessary to be allowed to the said surveyors-general and register, for making out, entering, or transcribing surveys, particulars, contracts, journal-books, or other service, such competent and convenient salaries, to begin at such time as need shall require, as you shall think meet, to be paid quarterly unto them out of the publique revenue of Ireland.

The surveyors-general, register, under-surveyors, clerks, and other officers, being allowed