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ceeding 35s per thousand for forfeited lands; and if but full allowance were made for the barrony lines, crowne and church lands, as alsoe for the county of Dublyn, libertyes of cities, &c., according to their respective worke, your honoures are not at 25s per thousand charge for all the forfeited land, one with another, measured by your petitioner in this most exact way.
3dly. Moreover your petitioner desires your honours to consider that the contribution of 4li 3s 4d per thousand from the army was propounded and procured by your petitioner, and that therefore, having done such a service in procuring the wages as well as performing the worke, hee humbly craves releife in the aforementioned particulars:
4thly. Your petitioner humbly intreateth your honoures to thinke how hard a case itt is, that the reimbursement of a litle money paid to the late surveyors should bee required from your petitioner; whereas it was never knowne but, in new and difficult designes, something must bee lost in making of tryalls and exsperiments to find out the best way.
Lastly, this craving of extraordinary considerations in these extraordinary cases is noe more then what your petitioner hath without importunity afforded almost unto every man that hath been imployed under him, uppon farr less grounds; hee having severall times allowed even double to his agreement, and that even after the service was finished, when hee had noe kind of constraint uppon him soe to doe.
Whereuppon their Lordshipps granted the following order:
By His Highness the Lord Protectors Councill for the Affaires of Ireland.
Whereas by an order of this board, dated the 15th of May last, the Surveyor-Generall of lands was required to take care for the examining and casting up of the severall plotts and bookes of reference which were returned in by Dr William Petty, concerning the surveyes of the three provinces, and to see that the same were duly perfected and returned according to the articles of his agreement or contract, or otherwise to state and present the defects of the said survey unto this board; and for the better performance and dispatch thereof, the said Surveyor-Generall was thereby impowered to imploy soe many able and discreet persons as he should thinke fitt, not exceeding the number of four, as by the said more at large appeareth; and whereas the said Surveyor-Generall hath, pursuant thereto, in August last, presented unto this board his report
