74 A HISTORY OF 



consider the propriety of offering premiums for planting 

 and enclosing old Danish forts, mounds, raths, motes, 

 and churchyards. It was recommended ; and is. per 

 perch, running measure, was the rate fixed on. Twenty 

 shillings per acre were to be awarded for every acre 

 planted with 2000 forest trees, and ^ioo were to be 

 expended in this class. When claims were adjudicated 

 on, those of Messrs. Richard Warburton, Andrew 

 Walsh, John Augustus levers, and William Spaight 

 were allowed. They had each enclosed between twenty 

 and thirty perches of old forts, and Mr. Warburton 

 had planted his enclosure with forest trees. In 1790, 

 sums varying from £2 to £19 were awarded to sixteen 

 persons in the counties of Antrim, Cavan, Carlow, 

 Clare, Galway, Kilkenny, Meath, Tyrone, Wexford, 

 and Wicklow, for enclosing and planting, &c. Lord 

 Dillon headed the list with three acres planted, and 

 131 perches enclosed. 



A premium of £44, 12s. 6d. was awarded to 

 Messrs. Richard Williams & co., of Dublin, being at 

 the rate of ten per cent, on the value of plate glass 

 (^446, 4_r. $d.) manufactured and sold by them, 

 which was superior to similar glass imported. A sum 

 °f LSS-> I s - ^d. was rateably divided between the same 

 firm and Thomas Chebsey & co. for flint glass 

 manufactured and sold by them. William Penrose 

 won ^50 for glass made in Waterford ; and John 

 Smilie and co. and Benjamin Edwards a similar sum 

 for glass made in Belfast. 



