f or J 
To remedy this, in all acts of parliament for in- 
clofures, where there is a poffibility of making wa- 
ter-meadows, or of improving thofe already made, power 
fhould be given to the commiffioners to take from 
the mills, at ftated times, a//, or fuch part, of the 
water as fhould be abfolutely neceflary for the wa- 
ter-meadows below; and where fuch mills are really 
unneceffary, to direct them to be taken away. Such 
commiffioners being at the fame time impowered 
to fix an annual rent-charge, to be paid to the 
owners of fuch mills fo injured, by the owners of 
the land fo benefited, as is done in the cafe of 
canals, fubject to the like appeal as is allowed in 
canal acts. 
In parts of the country which are already in- 
clofed, difputes frequently happen between owners 
of mills and owners of water-meadows, and which 
are almoft impoffible to be explained or underftood 
_in a court of juftice. 
Perhaps a mode might be praéticable of em- 
powering juftices of the peace, at their quarter-fef- 
fions, to order a reference to men of judgment in 
the neighbourhood, and to make their award mat- 
ter of record to bind the parties. 
The other obftacle to improvements in agricul- 
culture, is the impediment thrown in the way of — 
inclofures of commonable lands, particularly where 
the quantity of land is fmall, or the number of pro- 
prietors large, by the difficulty and expence of pro- 
curing acts of parliament for that purpofe, 
