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refort. But it frequently happens, that the quan- 
tity of open land belonging to one manor, is in- 
fuficient to afford an expence of, perhaps, near 
300. for an act, befides the fubfequent expence of 
working a commiffion. And although the land- 
owners of /wo or more Manors might join in one aé, 
yet it is a difficult matter to get them to agree on 
the terms of it; efpecially when, as is often the cafe, 
their intereft, or at leaft their claims, on the com- 
monable lands, clafh and interfere with each other. 
The expences of an act of parliament for an in- 
clofure, are not entirely occafioned by the fees of 
the two houfes, but by the delay and uncertainty of 
attendances in London, owing to the multifarious 
and increafing bufinefs of parliament; and which 
an annihilation, or even a reduction of thofe fees 
would tend much more to increafe than prevent. 
Remedy propofed.—But there feems to be a mode 
by which this difficulty might be, in a great mea- 
fure, obviated, and /wall common-fields or com- 
mons divided at a trifling expence, viz. by em- 
powering the juftices of the peace to receive 
applications for that purpofe at the quarter-feffions; 
and particularly in thofe cafes where a very great 
majority of the proprietors were confenting, or 
where the objections were chiefly founded on Jegal 
difability. 
Notice of the propofed application to the juftices 
might be given (in the way now prefcribed by par- 
liament) 
