USHEEU Kh PROJECTS. 
burthens to which we are now fub- 
jected, without being exhaufted or 
erufhed by the preffure. 
It is more particularly neceflary 
to carry fuch a meafure f{peedily 
into effect, becaufe it might be of 
the moft effential public {ervice, as 
foon as the prefent war is conclud- 
ed, to have fo.important a refource 
opened at home for the employ- 
ment of our gallant foldiery, who 
muit be difmiffed when fuch an 
event takes place, and to whom the 
cultivation and improvement. of 
the territory of the country would 
furnifh by far the moft ufeful and 
valuable of all occupations. A 
difbanded fieet fupplies our mer- 
chantmen with failors, and may 
extend the fifheries on our coatts; 
but a difbanded army has hitherto 
nad little refource, but emigration 
to our colonies, or to foreign coun- 
tries, or reforting to manufactures, 
many of which require fkill and 
experience in thofe who are em- 
ployed in them. Since the intro- 
duction of machinery, however, 
great numbers of hands are lefs ne- 
ceflary for our manufactures tian 
. formerly ;. and hence the proper 
bufinefs for our difbanded foldiers 
‘would be the cultivation of the foil. 
With what fatisfaction would not 
the nation at large witnefs thofe 
“brave and gallant men, who in time 
of war devoted themfelves to the 
neceffary defence of their country, 
in the time of peace ufefully occu- 
ied in the effential employment of 
furnifhing it with fubsiftence! 
On the whole, your Committee 
have come to the following refolu- 
tions :— 
Refolved, That it is the opinion 
‘of this Committee, that the cultiva- 
tion and impro:ement of the wafte, 
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uninclofed, and unproduttive lands, 
and of the common arable fields, 
common meadows, and common of 
afture, in this kingdom, is an ob- 
ject of fuch effential confequence 
to the general interefts of the na- 
tion, that every means ought to be 
adopted, fpeedily and effectually, 
to accomplifh the fame; and that 
every poffible ftep ought to be 
taken for that purpofe, in the courfe 
of the prefent feffion of parlia- 
ment. 
Refolved, Fhat it is the opinion 
of this Committee, that it would 
tend to promote the inclofure of 
fuch lands, if a bill were paffed for 
dividing, allotting, and inclofing the 
wafte lands, commons, common 
fields, and other commonable lands, 
of that part of Great Britain called 
England, by agreement among the 
parties interefted therein, and for 
removing any legal difabilities which 
may ftand in the way of fuch agree- 
ment. 
Reflued, That it is the opinion 
of this Committee, that it would 
materially tend to the inclofure of 
{uch lands (more efpecially where 
the parties are neither numerous or 
complicated; ‘if, in cafes where the 
parties are not unanimous, a law 
were pafled for enabling any per- 
fon or perfons entitled to any wafte, 
uninclofed, and unprodu¢tive lands, 
“common arable fields, common 
meadows, or common of pafture, 
or any portion thereof, in that part 
of Great Britain called England, to 
divide, inclofe, and hold the fame 
in feveralty. 
Refolved, That it is the opinion 
of this Committee, that the chair- 
man Go move the Houfe for leave 
to bring in a bill or bills, purfuant 
to the above refolutions. 
Dd ANTIQUITIES, 
