Notes on Hanoverian Bauers : autograph manuscript.

Asking questions related to the property rights of Hanoverian Bauers; saying "1. Under what conditions can a Bauer dispose of his Property? 2. Are the Bauern [illegible] restricted in any way as to removal from Place to place? - 3. What are the Services of the Bauern, in places of the Hanoverian Dominions where the new Regulations have not been introduced? 4. Where they have, what is the tax substitute for the Services? 5. What proportion of animal Food do the [illegible] Bauern, the [illegible], & the [illegible] consume - in other words what is their usual diet? 6. What are the diseases most common among them? 7. Where the new Regulations have been introduced, what is the size of the Estates or Properties? 8. What is the ordinary fate of the children who do not inherit? 9. What is the state of Population in the Hanoverian Dominions - is it adequate to all the demands of Agriculture? 10. Is the propensity to leave agricultural employment & to become Inhabitants of Towns & Cities general? Is it on the increase or decrease ? - And if the former, does it exist in a degree detrimental to agriculture? or does it only operate as a useful drain of superfluous Population? - / - Should Diseases happen to the unpropertied Day labourer, or in case of his Death, is there any species of legal maintenance or alleviation for his Family?"