INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS
ON THE
NATURE AND PRINCIPLES

OF THE ANNEXED SKETCH OF A

BILL

For facilitating the Division of Commons, by Agreement among the
Parties interested therein.

By the PRESIDENT of the BOARD of AGRICULTURE .

IT may not be improper, to submit to the Consideration of the
Reader, previous to his perusing the following Sketch, a few
short Observations, tending to point out the Nature and Object
of the Bill (the Outlines of which are subjoined) and the Prin-
ciples on which it is founded.

There is every Reason to believe, that there are many Com-
mons in England, particularly those of small Extent (where in ge-
neral the Land is the most valuable, and the fittest for Cultivation)
which would be divided among the Parties interested therein,
by Agreement among themselves, did not various legal Disabili-
ties stand in the Way of Such Agreement.

It is principally for the Purpose of removing such legal Disabi-
lities, that Acts of Inclosure are ofter resorted to; and so naturally
are