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thereof, with the approbcuion of three-fourths of 

 the land-owners, including the lord of the manor, 

 the re^lor, or vicar, and the overfeer of the poor for 

 the time being, to let their commons for 2 1 years to 

 the higheft bidders, or for the beft rent that can be 

 got for the fame, giving a preference to induftrious 

 cottagers with families; the rents to be applied in the 

 firfl place towards the difcharge of the expences in- 

 curred by the inclofure, and for ever afterwards one- 

 twentieth part thereof to the lord of the manor, one- 

 tenth to the officiating clergyman, provided his fti- 

 pend be lefs than lool. per annum; and the refidue 

 in difcharge of the poor-rates, or land-tax, in cafe 

 of a furplus: future leafes to be granted by the fame 

 parties or their fucceffors, and the furplus of rent 

 to be received and accounted for by the overfeer for 

 the^time being. The inhabitants of the parifh of 

 Dale may not be difpofed to inclofe now, if aided by 

 fuch a£l ; but th^y may afterwards. 



Appeals may be made to the juftices at the quar- 

 ter-feffions, who fliould in thefe fmall matters be the 

 dernier refort ; and the confent of the parties to the 

 inclofure, &c. be certified by them, and enrolled in 

 chancery, in perpetuum rei tejiunonium. 



In common fields where the fcparate properties 

 are afcertained by buttals and boundals, and are 

 called known-land, in contradiction to commons and 

 waftes, which are called unknown land, the now 

 flraggling ftate of landed property fo circumftanced, 



though 



