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65,000 acres and 1200 houses. This Commission expended a 
considerable amount of time and trouble in their task ; and it is 
rather to be regretted that their labours were not followed by 
some plan of dealing with the Forest, or by some proposition for 
valuing as well as ascertaining the claims. It will be convenient, 
however, in this place to give the latter part of the Report de- 
finirtg these rights, and signed by the Commissioners in question. 
In the year 1854, an Act of Parliament was passed for the 
settlement of Forest Claims, the nature of which is set forth in 
the Register: — " Now we, the said Charles James Gale, James 
Barstow, and John Duke Coleridge, to avoid unnecessary repe- 
titions in each case, do hereby declare that each allowance of any 
right is made subject to, and that the same is to be exercised and 
enjoyed according to, the Laws and Assize of the said Forest, 
and that in all cases wherein a right is allowed subject to a 
payment, such payment is to be made to our Lady the Queen. 
And that every right of common of pasture may be exercised and 
enjoyed at all times of the year, except during the fence month, 
that is to say, the twentieth day of June to the twentieth day of 
July yearly, and the time of the winter hayning, that is to 
say, the twenty-second day of November to the fourth day of 
May yearly, during which times we declare there is no right in 
all the unenclosed waste lands of our Lady the Queen within the 
said Forest for all their commonable cattle, levant and couchant, 
in and upon the said lands in respect of which the allowance 
is made. 
" And we do hereby declare that common of pasture for 
sheep is allowed only in cases where it it is expressly mentioned. 
" And we do hereby also declare that every right of common 
of mast is to be exercised only in times of pannage, that is to 
say, on and from the twenty-fifth of September up to and on the 
twenty-second day of November yearly, in all the open and 
unenclosed woods and woody lands of our Lady the Queen in 
the said Forest for all their hogs and pigs, ringed, levant, and 
couchant, in and upon the lands in respect of which the allow- 
ance is made, upon payments, unless otherwise expressed, yearly, 
to and for the use of our Lady the Queen, for every hog or pig 
exceeding the age of one year, four-pence, and for every hog or 
pig under that age, two-pence. 
" And we do hereby also declare that every allowance of tur- 
bary is of the liberty of having, digging, cutting, and taking turf 
in and upon the open wastes of our Lady the Queen within 
the said Forest by the view and allowance of the Foresters of the 
said Forest, and of carrying away the same turf from the said 
places to and into the messuages mentioned and described in this 
our Register for the necessary fuel of the said messuages, to be 
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