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the necessary articles and agreement with Dr. Petty, which is done, and a formal contract entered into on the 11th of December, 1654, between the Surveyor- General, on the part of the State, and Dr. Petty, for the Survey and admeasurement of the Army portion of the Forfeited Lands in Ireland, profitable and unprofitable, at certain rates of payment.—The Survey to be completed in thirteen months from that date, allowing one year more for complaints or appeals against it.—A Committee of Officers also agrees, on the part of the Army, to pay to Dr. Petty one penny an acre additional for all the profitable land surveyed and set out to them, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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CHAPTER V.

Mr. Worsley dismisses the former Surveyors.—Dr. Petty completes his securities.—Mr. Worsley issues instructions to Dr. Petty as to the Books of Reference which will be required Orders and warrants are issued by the Council for the necessary supply of men to show the meares, for abstracts or lists of the lands to be surveyed, for access to existing Records and Surveys, and a Committee of Officers is appointed to consider the best mode of making the subdivision of the lands among the Soldiers and others to whom it is to be granted—A separate agreement, relating to the Survey, between Dr. Petty and Sir Hardress Waller, described and explained, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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CHAPTER VI.

While the arrangements for the subdivision are under consideration, Dr. Petty begins the Survey in the neighbourhood of Dublin, and finds cases not contemplated in his contract.—New arrangements are proposed, but not seriously, and ultimately a Committee of Officers is appointed by the Council for the determination of casual doubts and difficulties.—In consideration of these delays, the thirteen months for completion of the Survey, from the date of the contract, is extended to thirteen months from that date, viz., 1st February, 1655, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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CHAPTER VII.

These delays being removed, Dr. Petty prepares a Code of Instructions for his Surveyors and Artists, in the field and in the office, and commences his operations; but as the arrangements for subdivision and distribution, which had been intrusted to the Committee of Officers, were still uncertain and incomplete, the Doctor is unable to do more than proceed with the admeasurement only, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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CHAPTER VIII.

Examination of the Strafford Survey of Tipperary, with a view to its adoption, if found sufficient.—Report upon the same, and description of the documents of which it consisted Dr. Petty ultimately resolves to add to and amend it, and employs Dr. Patrick Raggett for that purpose, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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CHAPTER IX.

The Survey being now in full progress, arrangements for the subdivision become indispensable, and as there is reason to suppose there would not be land enough to satisfy the full debt, it is agreed to satisfy two-thirds of each claim in the first instance.—Proceedings of Council of Agents.—Petitions