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The Landed Interest. 



Extent of 

 public 

 roads con- 

 structed, 



and value 

 of lands 

 devoted to 

 public 

 objects, at 

 the cost of 

 the owners 

 of common 

 rights, 

 equal to 

 one-eighth 

 of whole 

 value of 

 the land 

 inclosed. 



their just share of county and parish rates and 

 pubHc taxes. 



More than two thousand miles of pubHc 

 roads have been constructed in connection with 

 these enclosures since 1845, at the cost of the 

 common-right owners, in addition to the nu- 

 merous accommodation roads set out for their 

 special use in giving convenient access to their 

 several allotments. Other works of a public 

 nature, such as embanking and straightening the 

 course of rivers connected with inclosures, have 

 been executed. The value of lands devoted 

 to public objects, at the cost of the owners of 

 common rights, is equal to one-eighth of the 

 whole value of the land inclosed. 



The total estimated value of the wastes 

 inclosed amounts to ;^6, 140,000. The value of 

 the land taken from the best of this for public 

 purposes (comprising land for recreation, field- 

 gardens, public quarries, fuel, schools and 

 churches, burial-grounds, public roads, and other 

 purposes) has been estimated at ^282,140. To 

 this must be added the cash, raised by rate, or 

 sale of property, and expended on the construe- 



