Section III The Proportion of Poles to every Acre for those who shall have paid in their Subscriptions before the 20th of July.
And whereas the two Millions and halfe of Acres menc[i]oned in the said first recited Act to be for the satisfactionof such persons as shall underwrite and pay in any su[m]m of money according to the said first recited Act or Propositionsmentioned in the said first recited Act are to consist of English measure Now to the intent that all such well affectedpersons Bodies Politique and Corporate as have underwritten or shall underwrite or have caused or shall cause to beunderwriten to the purposes in all or any of the said Acts expressed any su[m]m of money and shall pay in or cause to bepaid in all theire summs which are or shall be so underwritten as aforesaid before the said twentieth of July may haveLands sufficient to give them satisfaction according to the proportion of one and twenty foot to the Pole for every Acre.Therefore be it Enacted That every Acre of the said two Millions and halfe of Acres shall consist of eightscore Pearchesor Poles and every Pearch or Pole shall consist of one and twenty foot And all the said two Millions and halfe of Acresshall be measured forth out of the said Rebells Lands and the other Lands forfeited by the said first recited Act accordingto that measure Any thing in the said Propositions or in the said Acts contained to the contrary notwithstanding