Indeed, Sir Robert Peel, whose measure of the preceding year had been chiefly directed to the encouragement of voluntary commutations, had stated to the House that there were already two thousand parishes in the kingdom in which a commutation between the clergyman and his parishioners had been agreed upon, and established as a durable settlement by separate acts of Parliament.
"The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860"
Charles Duke Yonge
But the great struggle, which lasted through the entire session, was upon the subject of railroad passenger commutations.
"The-Life-of-Phineas-T-Barnum"
Benton, Joel