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be attended with confiderable advantages in ancient 

 times, and though the fyftem of open field hulbandry, 



where 



pal objeft to be obtained. That inclofure fliould extend to fuch parts of the foreft and 

 chafe woods as are fituated within thofe parifhes refpeftively. The afl of Parliament 

 to be obtained for the purpofe, fhould contain proper powers for the commiflioners there- 

 in appointed, to afcertain the value of the whole commonage in the woods, and to di- 

 vide and proportion the value of that commonage among the feveral townlliips or pa- 

 rifhes, according to the number of pcrfons who may be found by them in each parifli 

 or town{hi[), to be entitled to any fliare or proportion of fuch commonage, and accord- 

 ing to their refpeflive rights and interefb. The commiflioners ihould alfo be empow- 

 ered to fet out fo much land, being part of the eftate which the proprietor of the woods 

 may be pofTefled of in each paridi or townlliip, to every commoner, as they may judge 

 equal in value to the proportion of the commonage to which fuch commoner may be 

 entithd, and which they may judge to be a full and adequate compenfation to inch 

 commoner, for his right and intereft in the forell or chafe woods. The land fo to be givea 

 in compenfation to each commoner, as aforefaid, to be added to the allotment of land 

 which each commoner may be entitled to, in right of his eftate and intereft in the open 

 fields and commons, which allotment Ihould be laid as contiguous to the dwel- 

 ling-houfe or homeftead of the commoner as poffible. It is prefumed this mode might 

 be adopted in all cafes, where the proprietor of the woods is poflefTed of an eftate and 

 property in the open fields and commons, or of any old inclofed lands belonging to the 

 parifti or townlhip in which the woods may be fituated, to enable the commilTioners to 

 fet out a fufficient part of fuch property as they may judge equal in value to the whole 

 of the commonage of fuch parilh or townfliip ; but inftances may occur where the pro- 

 prietor of the woods may not be poffeiled of either of thofe advantages ; in that cafe, a 

 fufficient quantity of the woodland might be grubbed up and cleared, and confidered as 

 part of the land intended to be inclofed, and might be valued and allotted by the com- 

 roiiFioners accordingly. 



The prefent ftate in which the foreft woods are held, it is feared, will neverthelefs, in a 

 great many inftances, make it impofliible for the fyftem above preferibed to be generally 

 adopted; the remaining intereft ftill referved to the Crown, with relpect to the deer and 

 othtrr matters in thefe woods, will prevent the proprietor of them from being able to 

 accede to any meafures that may be fuggefted for their advantage and improvement,, 

 until fome previous arrangement takes place. It is hoped the commiflioners of the 

 land-revenue, who, it is underftood, have now thcl'e matters under confideration, will 

 devife fome means by which fo formidable an impediment as a mixture of int.'rcils 

 inuft inevitably be to the improvement and advantage of landed property, may be 

 done a'vay, and by which the refpeclive owners and proprietors of the foreft woods may 

 be enabled to purfue the beft polFible fyftem of management in tlie cultivation of the)i.. 



The advantages refulting from fuch meafures being adopted, as have be.-n fuggefted, 

 in regard to the foreft and chafe woods, would not only be very ftnCV^y fol: by the indivi- 



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