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- Rules and Agreements concerning the present Proceedings of Setting out Lands to the Army, assented unto by us the respective Agents of the severall Regiments thereoff.
1st. That wee receive the proportion of lands according to the quota pars of 12s 3d in the pound, in part of satisfaction due unto each regiment, together with the loose debentures, as they have been thereunto affixed by the Commissioners for setting out lands, contained in a list or ffile of contiguitie, specifying the content of each towne land and part of towne lands within the said regimentall lott, and that wee doe allsoe receive therewith lists of the debentures belonging or affixed unto each troope and company within the said lott.
2dly. That the Commissioners bee desired, according unto the said list of each troope and companys debentures, to distribute the lands of the said regimentall lotts according to their owne rules and judgements, and the same to seale up and send unto us by or before the 21th day of Ffebruary, to bee then in force, and conclusive to the severall persons concerned therein, unless wee shall before the said day make and conclude some other agreement authentically among ourselves, equivalent unto the said distribution of the said Commissioners.
3dly. That wee shall soon after the said day returne unto the said Commissioners, either our assent unto the distributions by them propounded and sent unto us, or else some other authentically agreed by our selves, together with what exceptions wee find touching anything relating to our lott, as allsoe our directions for the subdivideing or cutting of any parcells within our lott, to the end that such agreement may then bee concluded uppon, and such orders of possession accordingly may bee given forth unto us, as shall bee then thought fitt.
4thly. That, together with the receiving of our said orders of possession in manner aforesaid, wee doe deliver up our debentures, or some other equivalent satisfaction or acknowledgement for such lands as wee shall receive in part satisfaction of them, as shall bee thought most convenient and fitt, and for which we shall in the meanetime adress our selves to the Councill for the declaration of their pleasure touching this matter.
5thly. That the Councill bee desired to command the Commissioners, after such orders of possession given, to receive any complaint or desire of reprizall of
