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Ordered,

That it be referred to the Commissioners-Generall of the Revenue, and Mr Standish, Receiver- Generall of the Revenue of Ireland, to consider of the agreement made with Dr Petty for admeasurement of forfeited and other lands in Ireland; as alsoe of the generall vote of the councill of officers of the 18th of December last, concerning the armyes proportion of the pay undertaken to be made to Dr Petty, for his worke of surveying their lands allotted for their respective arreares; and how the same may be reimbursed to the publicke treasury, out of the pay of the army, and in what proportions.

They are further to consider how the monyes, from time to time payable to Dr Petty by the said agreement, may be had, to answer the engagement of State therein; and to offer their opinions herein with all convenient speed.

Dublyn, the 11th of May, 1655.

Clerke of the Councill.

Uppon considerations of the severall petitions of the officers of the army, desireing that, forasmuch as the admeasurement of the lands throughout all the three provinces is in some competent forwardness, orders therefore might be issued for the putting of themselves and their respective regiments into possession of the arreares due to them; and uppon consideration of the report of a committee of certaine agents and others appointed to consider of the manner and way how the satisfaction of the army may best be exspedited;

Itt is by the said Lord Deputy and Councill ordered, that the army be forthwith put into possession of lands for the two-third parts of the arreares respectively due to them, according to the rates sett downe in the Act for satisfaction of the adventurers and soldiers, for the severall provinces of Leinster, Munster, and Ulster.

And to the'nd that, in assigning or setting out the said lands to the severall regiments whose lotts are fallen in the afforesaid respective provinces, the lands soe assigned may be sett out together, without intervalls, according to the tenor of the said Act.

And that the overplus of the lands, if any shall remaine in any of the said