Ordered,

A Committee to consider how the survey may most expeditiously and cheaply be done.That it be referred to Sir Hardress Waller, Collonell Hewson, Collonell Lawrence, Adjutant-Generall Allen, D^r Carterette, Lieutenant-Collonell Arnopp, M^r Benjamin Worsly, M^r James Standish, Captain Salt, and Captain Shaw, or any three of them, together with M^r Roberts and D^r Petty, forthwith to consider how the busines of surveys may be carried on with most exspedition and least charge to the Commonwealth, and certifie what they thinke fit therein. Dublin, the 8 September, 1654.

By which report appeared,—1st. That the new instructions brought in by M^r Worsly were clogged with unnecessary impositions, things done pro virili, and to make amends for his extravagancy in what went before.⁠2dly. That notwithstanding he had seen the vanity of his said former instructions given for the admeasurement of the lands set out A. D. 1653, and had brought in a set of more chergeticall contrivances, as himselfe called them, yet the Committee thinke fit to propound rules wholly different from what he had presented.⁠3dly. They ingeniousely acknowledged that the Act had not prescribed or warranted any rule for the distinguishment of profitable from unprofitable.⁠4thly. The said Committee did not restraine the surveyor's payment to profitable land only; but, consequently, the invention of biassing and tempting the surveyors to wrong the army by unequall allowance of profitable and unprofitable had its rise elsewhere; the which is likewise confirmed by the same difference betweene the heads of the agreement made between the officers and D^r Petty, and the contract between him and M^r Worstly to the same purpose, as may appeare by the copies of both hereafter inserted, the same having been industriousely avoided by D^r Petty, who, 1st, made this byas one of the objections against the survey preceeding him.⁠2dly, propounded, for the same reason, to undertake the whole for 30000^li, or at six pounds per thousand, without distinction.⁠3dly, agreed with as many of his under surveyors as he could to work by the mile and in length, by the thousand acres of profitable or unpro-