WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament bearing date the twelfth of October 1652. Entituled, An Act for further impowering the Commissioners for removing Obstructions, to determine Claims, The Commissioners named in one Act of Parliament, Entituled, An Act for transferring the Powers of the Committees for Obstructions, or any four of them, were Authorized and Required to hear and determine all Claims and Causes not then determined, upon Petitions formerly made to the said Commissioners, or to the late Committee of Parliament for removing Obstructions in the Sale of any Mannors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, by any Act or Ordinance of Parliament before that time appointed to be sold, with and under the Proviso therein mentioned and expressed; And wheras no time is limitted by the said Act for the Determination of such Claims and Causes as aforesaid, by reason whereof severall Persons, who have long since put in diverse Claims before the said Commissioners and Commit­tee, do delay the prosecution of them, whereby great Obstructions are made in the sale of the said Mannors, Lands, Tenements, and Heredita­ments: It is hereby Ordered and Declared, That the time for the hear­ing and determining of the Claims and Causes mentioned in the said first recited Act of Parliament, shall be untill the first day of November next comming, and no longer; And that all persons who shall not get Allow­ance of their respective Interest, from the said Commissioners for removing Obstructions, by or before the first day of November, shall be, and are hereby barred, and concluded, for and in respect of their said Claims and Interests.

Given at the Council of State at VVhite-Hall this 16. day of Iune 1653.