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By the Lord Deputy and Councill.
Ordered,
Order to consider Dr Petty's proposall and the rates. 27 October, 1654.That the proposalls of Dr Petty, touching surveys, and the report allready made by the Committee of officers thereuppon, be further referred to Sir H. Waller, Sir Charles Coot, Collonell Chidley Coot, Collonell Lawrence, Benjamin Worsely, Esq., Surveyor-Generall, Major Symner, and Captain Mullineux, or any three or more of them, who are forthwith to consider of the rate to be allowed for the worke, and to proceed to some conclusion, both as to the said rate, and the rules and instructions by which the said Dr is to undertake the performance thereof, as may be most for the advantage of the Commonwealth, and to certifie the same with all convenient speed. Dublyn, the 27th of October, 1654.
Tho. Herbert, Clerk of the Councill.
Uppon receipt whereof the Committee, the same day, sitting late at night, draw up the following heads of an agreement:
Proceedings of the Committee for Surveyes, the 27th of October, 1654.
Proceedings on the said order.This day, in pursuance of a reference from the Right Honourable the Lord Deputy and Councill, the said Committee tooke into consideration the business of Dr Pettye's proposalls of the forfeited lands in Ireland, and did proceed thereon as followeth:
- Articles made, had, and concluded, betweene, ......... in the Name and Behalfe of the Commonwealth, and Dr William Petty on the Behalfe of Himselfe.
Resolved,
A draft of articles between the Commonwealth and Dr Petty.1st. That it is the opinion of this Committee that the Doctor be contracted with, for the surveying of all the forfeited lands within the three provinces of Leinster, Munster, and Ulster, allotted for the satisfaction of the souldiery.
2dly. That the said Dr shall exactly survey and distinguish in .... lands between all lands as is profitable and all lands which is unprofitable, to the end the said profitable forfeited land may be exactly knowne; which profitable land