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easily conceived that, as there might bee faults of shortness, soe there might bee others of the contrary kind, of which the State should never heare; itt was therefore thought fitt to give the complainant leave to admeasure any mans allottment, within a certaine scope, where he suspected an overplus, the which if he thought he had found, he was then to goe to the owner of that overplus, and with him to agree uppon some such surveyor whome they could both trust, the which might measure both the supposed overplus of the one, and the supposed defect of the other; itt being ordered that, in case the said indifferent surveyor did find but the overplus and the defect complained of to bee reall, that reparation should be made the one out of the other.
In the like manner, as to unprofitable lands, if, for example, in a parcell of five hundred acres, whereof but one hundred acres was returned unprofitable, complaint was made that there was really two hundred acres such, and perhapps one hundred acres more of very course land, and such as can but barely bee accompted profitable, itt was thought fit, in this case, to suspend the one hundred acres in dispute, and to give the party complaining one hundred acres for it, as the worst of his profitable was, not admitting him to a new lott or possibility to have, instead of his one hundred acres of disputable, another one hundred acres better than the very best of his whole allottment.
10thly. In making out exchanges and reprizalls, according to the great variety of cases hapening thereuppon.
11thly. In preventing the collusion and abuses offered to the State uppon these occasions.
12thly. In answering the Councill's speciall orders, as to the dispose of scraps and remnants, and of the variouse considerations which the said Councill had in the liberty they then used, and when they conceived any further lottery was as well prejudiciall as impracticable.
All which severall operations, with the appurtenances unto them, were, after the body of the army was accordingly satisfyed, presented to the Councill, as a kind of an accompt of that affaire, and in order to receive their further directions thereuppon in the following paper:
