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until three months after the notice, and if during 

 that period any person dissents who is entitled 

 to any estate in, or charge upon, either of the 

 lands proposed to be exchanged, the Commis- 

 sioners withhold their confirmation while the 

 dissent continues. From time to time the 

 powers of the Commission have been extended 

 to comprise all cases omitted from the original 

 statute. All hereditaments, corporeal and in- 

 corporeal, may now be exchanged with ease and 

 at a very moderate cost. Inequality in value 

 to the extent of an eighth may be compensated 

 by a rent-charge annexed to the less valuable 

 and charged upon the more valuable property. 



The extent to which this beneficial and Extent to 



which it 



inexpensive power is used is very considerable, is made 



use of. 

 It is mostly in the rectification of boundaries, or 



the exchange of intermixed lands, and in many 

 cases to facilitate building operations, and em- 

 braces annually from 6,000 to 10,000 acres, 

 having a value of from 400,000 to 500,000. 



