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ART. V. 
On rendering Inclosure Bills more simple, and 
less expensive; to obviate in some degree the 
want of a General Bill. ia 
In a Letter to the SrcRETARY. 
st (By Brens.. Hosuouse, efg; M.P.) 
DEAR SIR, Cottle’s-House, Oct. 17, 1798. 
oat that a part of the laft volume of the 
Bath Society’s Papers is occupied by an ac 
count of the number of acres of commonable and 
wafte-land, in many of the counties of England and 
Wales, and a detail of the great advantages which 
would accrue to the publick by a General Inclofure 
Aé&. Neither of the gentlemen who have written 
upon the fubjeét, not even you, fir, who have fhewn 
yourfelf fo able an advocate for inclofure, can be 
more fenfible of thofe advantages than myfelf; but 
Jet me afk, is there any chance that this highly-bene- 
ficial meafure will be {peedily adopted by the legifla- 
ware? I wifh that I could anfwer this queftion in the 
affirmative, for then I fhould delight in the expeéta- 
tion that barrennefs would foon be exchanged for 
fertility, and extenfive traéts of unprofitable land 
foon be converted into verdant paftures, or fmiling 
fields of waving corn; but the pleafing hope muft 
not be indulged, Sir 
