II
Clauses of the Act of 1653 relating to purchase of land by the surveyors and others, and their payment in land debentures:
'Provided always, and be it hereby declared, that no Surveyor-General, Registrar, Under-Surveyor, or any other person employed in the execution of this service, his or their childe, or children, during the time of their employment, or any in trust for him or them, shall be admitted directly or indirectly, to be a purchaser of any part of the lands to be surveyed, upon pain that the purchase be void unless that they do first acquaint the Commissioners of Parliament with their desires and obtain excuse from them for the same.'
'Provided always that if any of the aforesaid persons to be employed by this Act, their child or children, heir or executors, have arreares or publique debts due unto them from the Parliament, which shall be allowed of as aforesaid, that the Commissioners of Parliament be and are hereby authorized to lay out and make over lands for their satisfaction in such manner and at such rates as are appointed by this present Act for other arrears or debts of the same nature.'[1]
- ↑ Scobell, Acts and Ordinances for 1653, ch. xii.
