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Chapter VIII. — The Government in its Connection witli Arjriculture. 
No Minister of Agriculture, and no Government Control exercised, or State 
Schools for Agriculture, or Flocks or Herds maintained by Government — 
The Inclosure Commission the only State Department connected with the 
Land — Its various Functions — Main Drainage Commissions for Control of 
Floods — These beneficial where not permitted to remain too long stagnant 
— Great Engineering Works seldom required — Exchange of Intermixed 
Lands inexpensive and simple in its operation — Extent to which the 
Power of Exchange is used . . . . . . . . . . Pages 54-57 
Chapter IX. — Waste Lands and Copyholds. 
Inclosure of Waste Lands, its extent and results — Quality and occupation of 
persons to whom Waste Lands passed — Extent of Public Roads constructed 
and Value of Lands devoted to Public Objects, at the cost of the Owners of 
Common Rights, equal to one-eighth of value of the whole land inclosed — 
Enfranchisement of Copyhold Lands and Buildings — Number completed — 
Extinction of this objectionable kind of Tenure desirable — Mode of accom- 
plishing this .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Pages 
Chapter X. — Church, Croicn, and Charity Estates. 
Tithes commuted from payment in kind to Money — Unexpected effect of this 
in preventing a rise in the Income of the Church, and increasing that of the 
Landowners — Parish Clergy a body of resident Landowners equal in number 
to more than one-fourth of those over 200?. c year, the removal of whom 
might prove a change of great magnitude in its social effect — Her Majesty's 
Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues managed with great judgment — and 
now yield a net Return to the Exchequer exceeding the Civil List paid 
to the Queen — General Conditions on which the Farms of the Crown are let 
— Charity Estates, their Extent and annual Value — now placed under the 
general direction of Government — Their Magnitude compared with the Cost 
of the Civil Admipistration of the Country .. .. ., Pages ^2- P6 
