value of the land seven
per cent, per annum; that all such public advances shall be repaid on
the principle of the million act, in twenty-two annual instalments, and
that a certain percentage shall be fixed, beyond which preliminary
expense and expenses of inspection shall not extend.

That, with a like object, we also recommend that tenants, with the
consent of their landlords, should have power to apply for public loans
in the same manner as the proprietor himself, and to charge the lands
improved with the repayment of the money advanced--the tenant rendering
himself responsible for the annual instalments that shall accrue due
during the period of his occupation; and that in order to encourage the
investment of the tenant's own capital upon his land, his right to
compensation for permanent improvements, in case of his removal, should
be recognised by law.

16. That, to remove the obstacles that now obstruct employment, the laws
which regulate the management of estates under the Courts of Equity
should be revised and amended, and facilities should be given to landed
proprietors to sell portions of their estates for the payment of
charges.

That, with a like object, and to diminish the enormous expense and
delays that now exist in these matters, cheap and simple modes should be
devised for the transfer, partition, and exchange of landed property.

17. That, in addition to these measures for the absorption of surplus
labour, for the affording facilities for private employment, and for the
removing of the obstacles that now obstruct it, we are of opinion that
other measures of an economical and social nature are imperatively
called for.

That, among the most prominent of these is an amendment of the present
Grand Jury system; and as great inconveniences have arisen from the want
of permanent bodies for the administration of county affairs, we would
recommend that all the fiscal powers of Grand Juries should be
transferred to county and baronial Boards.

That, in such, a change, we would recommend that the present system of
road-repair contracts should be modified; and that all roads should be
kept in repair under the superintendence of the baronial Boards.

18. That, in addition to an amendment of the Grand Jury Laws, we deem it
highly expedient to raise the social state of our agricultural labourer;
and that, as we believe, one of the most efficacious means of effecting
this will be the improvement of his habitat