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6thly. And for the better ascertaining of lands decreed away uppon claimes or compounded for, that the said Commissioners, uppon receiving the neat booke, may, uppon better information, take other lands into charge which are left out of charge, and putt any other lands out of charge which are given in charge.

7thly. That your Lordshipps will bee pleased to reserve all the forfeited lands within the adventurers moyety of the ten countyes and Lowth, for and towards the adventurers satisfaction only, untill all and every the respective adventurers bee satisfyed their particular proportions for the summes by them subscribed and paid, and untill they bee repaired for such damages as they shall receive by errors or mistakes of survey, as allsoe by incumbrances on their respective lands.

8thly. Your petitioners doe humbly desire that such determination and finall settlement of every adventurers satisfaction as shall be agreed uppon by the above mentioned Commissioners authorized by your Lordshipps may bee approved of by your Lordshipps, and confirmed with the seale of the Councill of Ireland; and that the survey whereuppon the certificats for the same are grounded may be attested by the Surveyor-Generall; and that your Lordshipps would, together with the said approbation, give warrant to the sherriffs of the respective countyes to deliver to possession according to the said certificates respectively.

9thly. Your petitioners doe further desire that the county of Kildare may bee divided by lott betweene the adventurers and souldiers, in order to their respective reprizalls, as the ordinance in that behalfe made doeth direct, and that such part thereof as falleth to the adventurers may be sett out unto them by lott and string from time to time, as occasion shall require, for reprize of incumbrances by lease and otherwise.

10thly . That your Lordshipps would bee pleased to accept of and appoint Dr William Petty to transact the above mentioned affaire, both in the behalfe of your Lordshipps and your petitioners, instead of the abovementioned Commissioners intended for management of the premisses, being a person of whose ability and integrity your petitioners have received good satisfaction; and that your petitioners may be at liberty, in case of his refusall, death, or other considerable absence before the said worke is finished, to recommend others in his stead on behalfe of your petitioners.

11thly. Thatt all such as have received the rents and profitts of any surplu-