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©f which there is no reafon to doubt, application 

 might then be made to parliament, which would, no 

 doubt, agree as to the propriety of the divifion, and 

 pafs a bill appointing commiilioners to negociate the 

 bufmefs in common form. 



Among the various important objefis which na- 

 turally fall under the confideration of the Board of 

 Agriculture, there are none which, in their confe- 

 quences, will prove more extenfively beneficial, in a 

 national point of view, than their giving every pof- 

 fible aid to thofe fpirited proprietors, who are anxious 

 to promote the improvement of the country, by 

 bringing the commons and wafle lands under culti- 

 vation, as nothing will fo certainly promote or main- 

 tain an increafe of population. 



With refpeft to what are the befl means to be 

 purfued in regard to the common in queflion, it 

 would be improper in this report to determine. It 

 appears only neceffary to repeat, that the improve- 

 ment of it would give regular employment to a great 

 number of hands, and furnifli the publick markets 

 with an additional quantity of feveral thoufand quar- 

 ters of grain annually; all of which can be efFefted, 

 without being attended with any bad confequences 

 vrhatever. 



Art. 



