IT is Ordered and Declared , That the Officer for the time being , commanding in chief the Forces within every respective Precinct , and the Commissioners of the Revenue there , or any three or more of them , whereof the said chief Officer to be one , shall and may , and are hereby authorized to inform themselves , of such persons that are Popish Recusants or Irish within their respective Precincts that by former Declarations are to be removed into Connaught and the County of Clare , whom they shall judge fitting and necessary to be dispenced withall for their said removing and transplantation ; And to that end , they are hereby authorized to send for all parties and Witnesses , and to examine such Witnesses as are Protestants and Persons of credit upon Oath ( which Oath they are hereby authorized to administer ) and such Evidence as they shall find to be material , to set the same down in writing . And if upon due proof and evidence appearing before them , they shall judge any such Persons fit or necessary to be dispenced withall as abovesaid , they are to certifie such Persons , and the Reasons of such dispensations , and the proofs inducing them thereunto unto the said Commissioners of the Common-wealth , at or before the Tenth day of May now next ensuing . And in the mean time , they shall , and may , and are hereby authorized to give Dispensations and Licences to all such Persons respectively , under their Hands , for their stay until the first day of Iune now next ensuing , and no longer ; to the end that upon return made of such Persons and their Conditions , and the said proofs and evidence , the said Commissioners of the Common-wealth may give further Order and directions therein as shall be just and fitting . And in such dispensations to be given as abovesaid , the Persons are to be described by their Age , Stature , Colour of Hair , and quality or condition . And all such Persons as shall be so dispenced with , and have such Certificates in writing , shall and may , and are hereby authorized to stay within the Provinces of Leinster , Munster , and Vlster , until the said first day of Iune , and no longer , without further order or direction from the said Commissioners of the Common-wealth , or the Commander in Chief of the Army and Forces in this Nation . Provided alwaies , that no dispensation be by the said Officer commanding in chief in the Precinct , and Commissioners of Revenue as abovesaid granted to any Person whatsoever , but to such Persons as are under some of the Qualifications hereafter mentioned : That is to say ,

First , To Persons weak and infirm by age , sickness , lameness , and such like infirmities , whereby they are or shall be in danger , or peril of their lives in case they shall be transplanted .

Secondly , To Persons not having been of any the Councels with the Irish Rebels , nor of their Armies , nor took their Oaths of Association , but having lived alwaies peaceably and quietly towards the English and Protestants , have at any time done any eminent service in discovering of the Rebels , or in aiding and assisting the English Army and their parties , or have sheltred and protected any English , or Protestants from being Murthered and destroyed by the Irish Rebels .

Thirdly , To Persons that have , or shall give any good and sufficient Evidence , and Testimony of their real renouncing the Popish Superstitions , especially of the Masse , and the Supremacy of the Pope and Bishop of Rome ; and also their desire , and willingness to hear such as shall and may better instruct them in the true and saving knowledge of Iesus Christ , his Gospel and Truths .

Provided also , That such Persons so to be dispenced withal , having any real Estate in any County , or City within the Provinces of Leinster , Munster on Vlster , shall not be adjudged , deemed , or taken to be Proprietors , or to continue the enjoyment of all , or any part of his or their said real Estates in the said Provinces . But such part of his or their real Estates as by the Act of settlement he or they are Declared to enjoy , he and they are to have satisfaction for the same in Lands in the Province of Connaught , or County of Clare . And the Commissioners sitting at Loughreah that are authorized to proceed in such cases , are hereby authorized and required , upon application made to them by any on the behalf of such Persons , so to be dispenced with as abovesaid , to assign and set out such Lands unto them and their Assigns , in Connaught and Clare , as by Orders and Rules given unto them , they are to set out unto others that are , or shall be actually transplanted , and to permit the Agents , Servants , and Assigns of such Persons so to be dispenced with , to enjoy the same , they behaving themselves as they ought to do . But as to their holdings and being in any of the Provinces of Leinster , Munster & Vlster , such Persons as are so to be dispenced withal as abovesaid , shall , and may enjoy such Lands as shall be necessary for their relief , and support as Tenants to the Common-wealth , and not in their own Right , paying Contribution , and such reasonable Rents for the same , as the Commissioners of the Revenue in the respective Precincts shall judge most fitting , and for the most advantage of the Common-wealth ; which they are to enjoy , during the time they shall be dispenced with for their said transplanting as abovesaid .

And it is further Ordered and Declared , That no Person whatsoever , who is by the late Declarations required to remove into Connaught or Clare , at , or before the first day of May next , and hath , or shall present his Petition to be dispenced with , for his transplantation , may , ( upon pretence of attending for an Answer to the same ) plead that for his staying longer , or not removing by the time limmited as aforesaid ; unless such Person upon due proof as aforesaid , shall be adjudged worthy of dispensation , whereof all whom it may concern are to take notice .