By the Commissioners of the Commonwealth of England, for the Affaires of Ireland.
Ordered,
A Committee to consider how the survey may most expeditiously and cheaply be done.That it be referred to Sir Hardress Waller, Collonell Hewson, Collonell Lawrence, Adjutant-Generall Allen, Dr Carterette, Lieutenant-Collonell Arnopp, Mr Benjamin Worsly, 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 busines of surveys may be carried on with most exspedition and least charge to the Commonwealth, and certifie what they thinke fit therein. Dublin, the 8 September, 1654.
Signed in the name and by appointment of
the said Commissioners, Tho. Herbert,Secretary.
By which report appeared,—1st. That the new instructions brought in by Mr Worsly were clogged with unnecessary impositions, things done pro virili, and to make amends for his extravagancy in what went before.2dly. That notwithstanding he had seen the vanity of his said former instructions given for the admeasurement of the lands set out A. D. 1653, and had brought in a set of more chergeticall contrivances, as himselfe called them, yet the Committee thinke fit to propound rules wholly different from what he had presented.3dly. They ingeniousely acknowledged that the Act had not prescribed or warranted any rule for the distinguishment of profitable from unprofitable.4thly. The said Committee did not restraine the surveyor's payment to profitable land only; but, consequently, the invention of biassing and tempting the surveyors to wrong the army by unequall allowance of profitable and unprofitable had its rise elsewhere; the which is likewise confirmed by the same difference betweene the heads of the agreement made between the officers and Dr Petty, and the contract between him and Mr Worstly to the same purpose, as may appeare by the copies of both hereafter inserted, the same having been industriousely avoided by Dr Petty, who, 1st, made this byas one of the objections against the survey preceeding him.2dly, propounded, for the same reason, to undertake the whole for 30000li, or at six pounds per thousand, without distinction.3dly, agreed with as many of his under surveyors as he could to work by the mile and in length, by the thousand acres of profitable or unpro-
