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 shared among landowners of townships in a proportion corresponding to the area of the estates already belonging to them there. I trust that this Commission will help to regulate the remainder of unappropriated land of Wales. In a return just issued by the Board of Agriculture, it appears that there are approximately in Wales 953,000 acres of unenclosed mountain land, sheep runs and hill grazings, over which sheep and other live stock range for at least a portion of the year.

Mr. Price, of Rhiwlas, said at Bala (Q. 8169) :

“ My tenants have sheep walks on mountain land on this estate, which right is invested in me.”

Mr. Wynne, of Peniarth, said at Barmouth (Q. 9458) : “ The rights of pasturage (on the hill wastes) arc vested in the owner. They are part and parcel of the rents. If there were no sheepwalks, the farms would not command half the rent.”

The late Lord Penrhyn, before the Richmond Commission (1879) said : “ There was at one time a great deal of pulling down walls in one part of Carnarvonshire. There had been