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By the Commissioners of the Commonwealth of England, for the Affaires of Ireland.
Ordered,
Order to consider how the survey may most expeditiously and cheaply be done.That it be referred to Sr Hardress Waller, Collonell Hewson, Collonell Lawrence, Adjutant-Generall Allen, Dr Cartret, Lieut.-Collonell Arnopp, Mr Benjamin Worsely, Mr James Standish, Captain Salt, and Captain Shaw, or any three of them, together with Mr Roberts and Dr Petty, forthwith to consider how the business of surveys may be carryed on with most exspedition, and least charge to the Commonwealth, and certifie what they thinke fit therein. Dublin, September 8th 1654. Signed in the name and by the appointment of the said Commissioners,
Tho. Herbert, Secretary.
Whereuppon was considered the charge, usefullness, and dispatch of the Survey then allready in hand, grounded uppon and made in pursuance of the following report of a Committee of Survey, instituted by the generall councell of the army, held in April, 1654, and for bettering of another way of survey before that time propounded by Mr Worsly, which the said report doeth mention and correct.
The Report of the said Committee of Survey, viz.:
The 11th of May, 1654.
Report of the Committee of Survey, on which Mr Worsly's instructions were grounded.By the Committee appointed by the generall councill of officers, to have a view and consideration of such instructions as are to be sent out for the surveying of lands.
To the Right Honourable the Commissioners of the Commonwealth.
It is humbly shewed,
That the Comittee, having conferred with the Surveyor-Generall, and viewed certaine instructions prepared by him to be issued to such persons as are to be imployed in the surveying and admeasuring of land, and considering of how great import it is (as they humbly conceive), as well to the interest of the Commonwealth as to that of the army, that the souldiery should, with what exspedition is possible, be put into possession of their lands; and how much it would contribute to that end, and to the facilitating the subdivision among themselfs, if the quantity of forfeited lands may in each place be ascertained,