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Were this waste to be divided, like another other/waste
waste, among all the Commoners, in proportion
to their respective quantities of interest possessed by each of that
is (in the present instance in equal shares)
the quantity of divisible land, compared with the
number of the sharers, would have afford to each
of them a spot big enough to stretch himself upon: and
in that case the very expense of fencing to say nothing of draining) would
of itself be more than sufficient to eat up the whole value of
each lot the subject to be divided. (a) And<d/el> But, upon
this such a plan of division, the particular interests interests
just spoken of would be more compleatly and
irremediably satisfied, than upon the plan here
proposed. Those to whom it is now of the most
value would have no greater share than those to whom it is now any one of the thousands to whom, in its present state it is of no value at all.
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Note
(a) Number of acres remaining after an
allowance made for road of the necessary quantity
for roads, and an allotment of 10 or
11 acres clear for the Westminster Scholars, about 40
No of sharers Inhabitants in <sic>St. Margarets 12000, in
<sic>St. John's

Identifier: | JB/123/026/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 123.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	123	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	026	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c25 / d3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	41452
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