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I object that there is no provision for holding Public
Meetings on the Forest ; a matter easily made practi-
cable.
I object that there is no Compensation Fund provided
for the Commoners in exchange for the varions rights
over the enclosed parts of "which it is proposed to deprive
them, Also that there is no clause to bring into such
fund the money paid by the Great Eastern Railway
Company for Commoners' rights and interest, now pre-
sumably over £1,000, which should be the nucleus of
such fund. To this should be added the 22 years' rent
of 275 acres secluded from the Commoners by the Lord
of Chingford St. Paul, computed at over £5,000 ; and the
like proportionate payment out of moneys proposed to
be paid either to Lords of Manors, or Grantees, where
lands have been inclosed or secluded from the Com-
moners.
This Fund, when ascertained and completed, should
be at the control of and divisible by and among the
Commoners. There is want of equity in extinguishing
or curtailing any of their rights without compensation.
I object to all the proposed payments to Lords of
Manors as being excessive, which is easily provable,
and especially to proposed grants of land value £5,000
to Mrs. Jane Hodgson, without any compensation to
the Commoners ;—the throwing open by the City being
merely a restoration of what they have been deprived
of.
I make these objections mainly on public grounds,
and respectfully urge their consideration. They are not
conceived in a hostile or unfriendly spirit,
GEORGE BURNEY.
British Land Company's Objection, page 8.—It is
erroneously stated that they had no knowledge of inter-
commonage, and equally so that they ever extinguished
or attempted to extinguish such rights except by the
very effectual process of enclosing and building. My
coadjutor, the late Mr. Delano, attended the Land
Registrar at his Court to urge the Commoners' claims,
and the result was that the much-vaunted indefeasible
titles are registered subject to Commoners' and Inter-