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 Immediately after the officers then and there present withdraw, and, putting themselves into a Councill of Warr, make the following Act:

Being present

Whereas it hath been proposed by a Committee of officers that one penny for each acre of profitable land, which shall be actually received by the army, in satisfaction of their respective arreares, shall be paid unto Dr Petty for the measuring the said lands, it is therefore humbly offered, as the advice of the Councill of Warre, that one penny for every three acres due to the army, according to their respective debentures, and the rate appointed by the Act of Parliament in the respective provinces wherein their lot is fallen, be deducted, and forthwith advanced unto the said Dr Petty, out of the next moneth's pay due to the army; provided that the regiments fallen within the lot of Ullster advance noe more then according to the estimate of the forfeited lands in that province.

And itt is likewise humbly offered, that to compleat the payment of one penny per acre to the said Dr, a proportionable deduction of the next ensueing moneth's pay be made after the survey is delivered by the said Dr, according to the agreement made with him, and possession given to the army. Signed in the name and by the appointment of

the said Councill,