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salaries as aforesaid, shall not take or receive any fee, reward, or gratuity, from any person or persons, for or in respect of anything in relation to his or their office or imployment aforesaid, upon pain of forfeiting his or their respective places and offices, and incurring such further punishment as the demerit of his or their offence shall deserve.
And whereas it is intended that the adventurers, soldiers, and officers should be satisfyed, and Ireland planted with as much expedition as may be, you are to consider and advise whether by any other way or means then is before in and by these instructions prescribed, with less expence, and in a shorter time, a gross survey may be taken of the several honors, baronies, manors, lands, or tenements, so forfeited as aforesaid, so as there may be some certainty as to what honors, baronies, manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments are forfeited, and an estimate made what quantity of meadow, arrable, and profitable pasture, and what woods, bogs, and barren mountains are belonging to each of them respectively, that thereby way may be made for alotments between the adventurers and the said soldiers and officers; and afterwards, upon the division or alotment of each person's respective proportion, or in some convenient time after, a more exact admeasurement may be made. And in case you shall finde the same may be effected, you are hereby authorized and required to take such speedy course therein (without proceeding by the way of under-surveyors hereinbefore prescribed), as you shall judge most expedient and effectual to lessen the charge and shorten the work. And you are impowered to employ therein such and so many persons, and to allow them such salaries and recompence, to be paid in such maner, and to give them orders and instructions to proceed therein by such ways and means as you shall think fit. And you are to cause such gross surveys of each particular honor, barony, manor, lands, or tenements, and of the quantity and number of acres of meadow, arrable, and profitable pasture, by estimation (together with the woods, bogs, and barren mountains), to each of them respectively (or to any two or more of them adjoyning or lying together) belonging, to be taken and returned in writing under the hands of such persons as aforesaid, to the surveyors-general, and a duplicate thereof to the register for the said lands, with all possible expedition.
You shall give direction to the register aforesaid, that as soon as any such survey or estimate shall be transmitted unto him, he draw out of the same an abstract how many acres of meadow, arrable, and profitable pasture, is in such survey or estimate mentioned to belong to such honor, barony, manor, or tenement, so as an exact and perfect abstract of all such of the said forfeited lands as are of that condition within the said ten counties, and also in the county of Lowth, may immediately, upon the return of the said surveys or estimates of the premises in the same eleven counties, be sent over unto Mr. Methusalah Turner, Robert Hammond, and others, appointed a committee to sit at Grocers' Hall, under your hands and seals.
You shall observe and execute such further instructions in and about the premises as you shall from time to time receive from the present council of state (until the meeting of the supream authority of this nation), and afterwards from the said supream authority, or others authorized by them on that behalf.
Whereas an Act of Parliament was made the twelfth day of August, one thousand six hundred fifty-two, entituled, "An Act for the Setling of Ireland," whereby it is declared,
