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ing unto the Crown, in the year one thousand six hundred and thirty, or any time since, and survey the same, with all houses, edifices, timber, woods, mines, and appurtenances thereunto belonging, and return the same in distinct surveys by themselves, together with the true yearly value thereof, in the year one thousand six hundred and forty.
They shall also, by the like ways and means, examine and find out all honors, baronies, castles, and manors, lands, tenements, rents, or other hereditaments, lately belonging to any archbishop, bishops, deans, dean and chapter, or other officers belonging to that hierarchy in Ireland, in the right of his archbishoprick, bishoprick, deanery, or office aforesaid, and survey the same, with all houses, edifices, timber, woods, mines, with the appurtenances, and return the same distinctly by themselves, together with the true yearly value, as the same was in the year one thousand six hundred and forty, which surveys shall be kept by the register distinct and apart from the surveys of the forfeited lands.
The said under-surveyors shall have power to keep courts of survey, and to call before them such persons as they conceive best know the forfeited lands to be admeasured by them, or the lands not forfeited lying amongst them, or abutting upon them, and to examine them concerning the meets, bounds, rights, title, rents, valuations, of any of the said lands and premises; and for the more full discoveries of the same, to examine upon oath all persons, other then such as have interest or title to the lands in question, whom they presume can inform them in the premises.
The said under-surveyors shall return every survey, as soon as the same is made, to the surveyors-generals, attested under their hands, and a duplicate thereof, in like manner, attested, to the register, together with all records, evidences, and writings, which shall come to their hands concerning the premises.
The surveyors-general, upon the receipt of any survey or certificate from the under-surveyors, shall peruse them with diligence, and if they finde the same to be mistaken or defective, or any way insufficient to contract upon, or otherwise to be disposed of, that then they cause to be transcribed so much of the said survey as they shall judge to be mistaken, defective, or any ways imperfect, and return the same unto the respective under-surveyors, and certifie them the causes of their exceptions, who shall thereupon forthwith examine the truth thereof, and amend the same, or certifie the cause why they cannot do it.
The surveyors-general shall have power to certifie and amend mistakes, errors, and other matters that are not of substance in any of the said surveys, that the surveyors-general, in all cases where they can (by proof of witnesses upon oath, which they have hereby power to administer), amend and survey without any return of the surveyors; that then they, by the advice and consent of three of the commissioners aforementioned for hearing and determining claims, shall and may amend the same, which shall be as good and effectual as if the same had been so returned.
The Oath to be taken by the Surveyors-General.
"I, A. B., do swear, that I will, according to my best skill and knowledge, faithfully discharge the duty and trust committed unto me as surveyor-general for Ireland, according to
