ion, we are of opinion that
measures should be adopted to enable proprietors to improve the
dwellings upon their properties of the labouring poor, and by proper
sanitary regulations to render it the interest of all landholders that
every dweller on their estates should have a good and healthy
habitation.
That we likewise deem it expedient to increase and disseminate
agricultural knowledge,--and, with this view, we are of opinion that
baronial Boards should have the power of establishing model farms in
each barony, presided over by proper agriculturists.
19. That, among the most prominent evils of the present land system, is
the want of a cheap and simple mode of checking waste, and therefore we
are of opinion that measures should be taken to remedy this.
That, with the view of relieving the owners and occupiers of the soil
from any burthens that unfairly press upon them, we would recommend that
the expense of jails, lunatic asylums, and criminal prosecutions shall
no longer remain a charge upon landed property, and that, in future, all
classes who derive an income out of land shall bear their equitable
proportion of the taxation which affects it.
20. That, having suggested above what appears to us to be the best means
of absorbing surplus labour, and removing the obstacles which fetter
private enterprise, we at the same time desire to express our firm and
deeply fixed conviction that any system of relief for the support of the
destitute, which is not based on the principle of distinguishing
between the proprietor who performs his duty, and him who neglects it,
by exempting the former from any taxation that may be rendered necessary
by the default of the latter, will be most injurious to the interests of
every class in the community.
21. That the Reproductive Employment Committee be requested to continue
their labours, and be empowered to call meetings, similar to the
present, at any time during the session of Parliament, if such shall
appear to be necessary; or to take such other steps as may appear
expedient for the carrying out the objects of the meeting.
22. That the secretaries be requested to communicate with those landed
proprietors who have been unable to attend the meeting to-day, with a
view of obtaining their support to the above resolutions.
23. That an address be presented to her most gracious Majesty, the
Queen, setting forth in the most respectful, but, at the same time, the
most urgent mann
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