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ment) in Auguft or September. The bill of the 
propofed regulations of the inclofure might be 
delivered at the Michaelmas feffions, and made 
public immediately after. Objections might be 
heard at the Epiphany feflion, and the bench might 
then determine for or againft an inclofure. 
*Thofe who doubt the competency of a court of 
quarter-feflions to do this bufinefs. properly, will 
confider that the local information, fo effential ta 
the proper framing an inclofure bill, may be ob- 
tained, and the objections of parties aggrieved may 
- be inveftigated, not only much cheaper, but much 
better on the {pot, than can poffibly be done before 
parliament. And thofe who think it would be 
giving foo much power to juftices of the peace, will 
confider, that they have already a greater power 
than this, viz. the hearing and determining appeals 
that may come from parties aggrieved, under in- 
clofure ats pafled by parliament, 
And, indeed, if it were thought neceffary, all 
pollibility of partiality might be prevented by pre- 
{cribed rules and regulations, as to the proportions? 
majority of confenting proprietors, abfolutely necef- 
fary to the pafling an order for an inclofure. 
It may, perhaps, be expected by fome, that in 
{peaking of obftacles to improvements in agricul- 
ture, the payment of tythes in kind fhould be men- 
tioned, and fome plan propofed for its abolition. 
But it is not to he expected that fo great an altera- 
tion 
