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are (that is to say), into town-lands, plough-lands, cartroones, or any other denominations of lands proper to the said baronies and counties where the said lands do ly (or that are usually known and observed in the said baronies), according to the bounds of each of the said denominations respectively, so as each of the same may be certainly and distinctly known from other lands of the like denominations in the said barony.
You are to subdivide the said town-lands, plow-lands, cartrons, or other the usual denominations of lands, according to the number of proprietors who have forfeited their estates, and have lands conteined in any of the said denominations, and to distinguish the metes and bounds of each of the said respective estates belonging to the said several and respective persons who have forfeited the same. Provided that if the said forfeited estates, which shall ly intermixt one with another, or with lands unforfeited, be in small parcells, and under forty acres entirely together; in all such cases it shall and may be lawful to return the said lands by estimate only, without surveying the metes and bounds of each of them distinctly by the instrument.
For the better ascertaining of what land is judged to be bog and barren mountains, you are faithfully to describe the nature, quality, and bounds of all such kind of lands, and especially to make some eminent mark where the same runns and bounds with other land, arable, meadow, or profitable pasture land. You are also to describe the nature and qualities of the said mountaine and bog, and to set down reasons and grounds for returning the same as such.
And to the end it may be the better ascertained what woods are to be cast in, and what are to be reserved according to the intent of the "Act for the Satisfaction of the Adventurers and Souldiers," you are carefully to distinguish the woods growing upon barren mountaines, or which are not fitt for timber, from all other woods; and the woods so reserved by the said Act you are to survey by themselves, and to make particular returns of them.
You are carefully to survey and admeasure with the instrument the out-meares and bounds of all and every the baronies within the counties mentioned in the above said first article, and the same so surveyed distinctly to protract and lay down, to the end that the civil metes and bounds of each barony may be the better known and preserved, and that exact and perfect mapps may be held of the said metes and bounds of each of the said baronies.
You are to give into the office of the surveyor-generall fair plotts and bookes of survey, fairly writ, of all and every the said baronies, and of all the honors, mannors, castles, lands, tenements, and hereditaments forfeited in each or any of the said baronies, together with bookes of references answering to the said plotts, in which you are at large to describe the bounds and metes of all the said forfeited townes and lands, with all other their appurtenances, and to set down what you find observable in them, or any of them; all which you are to give in under your hands; in the making and drawing up of which plotts and bookes you are to observe such further forme, method, and rules, as hath been given by the surveyor-generall in the like case.
Dated at the Council Chamber in Dublin, the 3rd day of September, 1656.
T. H.
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