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much, that they will rather permit their interefls in 

 wafle lands to lie dormant, than fubje£l themfelves 

 to the greater inconvenience of an expence they are 

 not always able to bear. 



To remove this difficulty would perhaps be one 

 of the moft popular and beneficial undertakings, in 

 which the Honourable Board of Agriculture could 

 engage. Some of the moll intelligent perfons I 

 have talked with on this fubje£l are of opinion, that 

 an aft fliould be palTed to empower the cuftos of 

 each county, with the magiftrates aflembled at the 

 Michaelmas quarter-feffions, to appoint commiffi- 

 oners to divide and inclofe any waftes, upon the 

 application of the majority of proprietors in value, 

 under their hands and feals. Such commiffioners to 

 be perfons no wife interefted in the wafte propofed 

 to be inclofed; and having been previoufly chofen 

 by a majority of votes, at a publick meeting of the 

 proprietors, held within the manor or parifli in 

 which the wade lies, by notice given on the church 

 door of fuch parifh, for three fucceflive Sundays 

 (during divine fervice) next previous to the day of 

 meeting. 



Such powers as may be found neceilary to invert: 

 commiffioners with; and proper inrtruftions and re- 

 gulations, as to the making the allotments and pay- 

 ing the expences, may be enafted, fo as to anfwer (it 

 is prefumed) all the purpofes at prefent to be ob- 

 tained by feparate afts. It is generally believed in 



this 



