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adding 16li 13s 4d, or 33li 6s 8d to the respective fifty pounds whereof the equalized rates doe consist. That proportions of lands, consisting of odd roods and perches, bee esteemed for whole or halfe acres.
6thly. In the due placing of loose debentures, vizt, such as were not brought in by the agents with the body of the debentures belonging to each troop or company.
8thly. In disposing and managing of lottery it selfe, and the manner of giving of the agents satisfaction, that the said association of debentures, neating, stringing, and rating of the respective lands, as allsoe the casting of lotts, was well and uprightly managed, as by the following order may appeare:
By the Commissioners for setting forth Lands to the Army.
The agents of the westerne division of Leinster, in order to an examination of what had been done and propounded by the said Commissioners, concerning the truth of the order of the succession of their barronies, and of the injury they conceive they have received from the said Commissioners, touching the rating of the said barronies, doe desire the neat content of every barrony supposed to be within their lott, and allsoe the debt of every regiment, troope, and company comprehended within the same, itt is ordered that the neat bookes of the said lands, with the mapps of each of the barronyes, the booke of the doubtfull lands within the limitts of their security, together with the lists of the said debt, and of the affixed loose debentures of each regiment respectively, to bee delivered into the particular care and charge of Captain Edward Warren, whom Thomas Taylor is to attend uppon the said examinations; and that the severall books and papers above mentioned bee delivered to the said Captain with all speed. Dated the 6th of December, 1656.
Md. This order was entered into the Commissioners booke at the request of the above mentioned agents, and executed accordingly.
9thly. In the manner of repairing shortness of measure and damageable mistakes as to the quality, when any man complained his land wanted measure, ffor as much as it was not easie to know whether there was such a fault or noe, nor whether the same was in the mearesmen or measurers; moreover itt was hard to send forth such a new measurer as might not either bee abused by such meeresmen as might be putt uppon him, or tempted by the party complaining, the State having noe security on their parts; and lastly, fforasmuch as it was
