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proprietors; each of whom should have 

 the substance of the committee's report 

 transmitted, with an invitation to sign an 

 engagement, (no otherwise binding than 

 upon honour), stating the quantity of 

 acres he proposed to cultivate, in the 

 manner recommended. A good method 

 once adopted, througli such influence, 

 would afterwards sufficiently recommend 

 itself. 



Government should, of course, set the 

 example; by putting the whole of the 

 Royal Forests under such management, 

 so far as applicable. 



It is almost unnecessary to mention, 

 that such Committee should meet in the 

 country, where Woods, of different ages, 

 were near at hand ; and that they ought 

 to call in such persons, to assist in their 

 inquiries, as they might deem necessary 



There is nothing in the business propo- 



