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to Parliament for private ‘acts, ‘and the-rate -of fees 
paid on fuch occafions, however {mall it might be; 
would be fo much clear gain. 
I have now furnifhed you with a tketch’ ‘of the 
thoughts which fuggefted themfelves to my mind 
this morning, upon the fubje& of inclofure. You 
have feen that the plan, the outline of which I have 
rapidly drawn, cannot be objected to as diminifhing- 
the emoluments of office, becaufe it adds to them; 
neither ought it to ftartle the timid as an innovation, 
for it leaves the Jaw untouched, andis no more than 
a falutary regulation. Do me the favour to prefent 
it to the Society. Although it may not be deemed 
a proper bafis for an application to the legiflature, 
yet, by exciting inquiry, it may give birth to fome 
wifer and better fcheme for rendering private intlo- 
fure aéts lefs expenfive. I fear that, at the prefent 
period, no reafonable hope can be entertained either 
of a General Inclofure A&, or, of what would be 
ftill more ufeful, an a& for fubftituting adequate 
falaries in lieu of the fees of Parliament, which 
certainly operate as a prohibition a i me 
improvements, 
I am aware, fir, that communications of a pratti- 
cal kind are more valuable than my fpeculations; 
but as they aim to alleviate the weight of thofe cb- 
{tructions which now impede the progrefs of agri- 
culture, it occurred to me that there was no impro- 
priety in communicating’ my feqtiments to the Bath 
and 
