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This Act may be cited as the Commons (Expenses) Act 1878 and together with the Inclosure Acts 1845 to 1876 as the Inclosure Acts 1845 to 1878.
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The Inclosure Commissioners may, if they think fit, insert in any provisional order for the regulation of a common a provision for the raising and payment of the expenses of and incidental to the regulation of such common, either wholly or partly, by a sale of a portion of the common; and they shall in such case specify in the provisional order the situation and the maximum quantity of the portion of the common which may be so sold; and where such provision is made the said expenses may be raised and paid accordingly in manner provided by the Inclosure Acts 1845 to 1868.
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The Commissioners may, if they think fit, specify in any provisional order for the regulation of a common, as one of the terms and conditions of the regulation, the appropriation of an allotment for the labouring poor; and the provisions of the Inclosure Acts 1845 to 1876, with respect to such allotments made upon the inclosure of a common shall apply to any such allotment made on the regulation of a common.