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 HEN the drawing up of the contract, as by the above report, and the finishing of the same as to other matters, was referred to the said Mr Worsely, he brings about againe (and that before the Councill

notwithstanding the above report) the consideration of the price, alleadging the same to be exorbitant, and above what was now allowed by the Act, or heretofore, for the admeasurement of Conaught and Tipperary, unto which was answered:

1st. That the allowance of fourty shillings per thousand for barrony lines, the last year, which was dearer then thirty pounds per thousand for what was propounded, and other extravagant rates since that, had made the Surveyor set an unreasonable value uppon their labour, more indeed then the same doeth intrinsecally deserve.

2dly. That, as to Conaught survey, it was done only according to the lowest denominations; this, not only soe, but with distinction of proprieties, subdivisions, and double books and plotts. Moreover, there was then allowed a surcharge of a Director-Generall of the said works. Here all is comprehended in the rate per thousand. The admeasurers then and there paid little for their diet and lodging, bounders, marksmen, spademen, &c.; needed noe guards, wrought in a well-planted and accommodated countrey, and made great advantage by transcripts of their survey; none of all which advantages must be now exspected.

3dly. The countrey is now overgrowne with rushes, shrubwood, bogs, and other impediments; the worke must often stand for want of bounders, guards, tables for protraction, &c.

4thly. The extraordinary dispatch and security now proposed, may, in all reason, much advance the rate.

5thly. The adventurers give much higher rates, with whome tis easier dealing then with the State.

6thly. The States pay three pounds per thousand, and yet have all the benefit