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price of corn; as it is by the price of corn that the 

 growth of thofe articles is at prefent in a great de- 

 gree regulated. 



Mr. Pryce having, in his very ingenious effay on 

 this fubjea (already publiflied by the fociety) pointed 

 out minutely the procefs vt^hich he apprehends would 

 be proper to be authorized by parliament to carry 

 commutations into general effeft, and parliament ha- 

 ving in many inftances done him' and the fociety the 

 honour of adopting many parts of his plan in com- 

 mutations under inclofure afts, it will be needlefs to 

 add more here on that fubjeft. The mode now in 

 general ufe may be feen in many inclofure afts paiTed 

 every feffion, and particularly in an aft fent herewith, 

 paired in the laft feffions, for inclofmg the open lands, 

 and commuting the tithes of the parifh of " Milton- 

 " Bryant in the county of Bedford." 



If the fociety fhould honour this plan with their 

 fanftion, and parliament fhould adopt it by way of 

 experiment in particular parifhes, the difficulties of 

 making an aft for carrying it into general execution will 

 be feen, and, it is prefumed, will eafily be obviated. 



Such an aft might lodge a power in fome of the 

 law courts, the court of quarter-feffions, or perhaps 

 the new Board of Agriculture, to grant commiffions 

 for that purpofe, on the application of a fpecified 

 majority of the parties intercfled in the tithes of 

 each parifh. 



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