§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDsaid, he wished to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether it is intended to act upon the recommendations contained in the Report of the Committee on the Royal Forests in Essex?
MR. PEELsaid, in reply, that the Committee were very much divided in opinion, and it was not easy to collect precisely what were their recommendations, and in what manner they intended they should be acted upon. One recommendation was, that any past encroachments on the forestal rights of the Crown should be abated. The question, what proceedings should be taken to give effect to that recommendation, and whether the prospect of success would be commensurate to the expense, was under the consideration of the Law Officers of the Crown. Another recommendation was, that what remained uninclosed of the forests should be inclosed, and that a people's park should be founded by means of Crown allotments and with the assistance of grants of public money. But the Crown had no lauded property there whatever. It had only forestal rights, and it must rest with the Lords of the Manor and the copyholders whether they would grant pieces of land to form into a park. With regard to proposing a grant of public money, that was a point which had not yet received sufficient consideration.
§ VISCOUNT ENFIELDsaid, he wished to know whether the Crown would permit of the continuance of inclosures, as it did before the Resolution of the House of Commons?
MR. PEELsaid, the Resolution referred, not to inclosures, but to the sale of the forestal rights of the Crown, which was a distinct thing.