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To prevent the effects of that partiality, which 

 want of judgment or of candour too often occafions, 

 the ingenious writer before quoted propofes, that 

 the fum which each perfon fhall pay in lieu of tithes 

 fhould be fixed by two indifferent and fkilful per- 

 fons, with liberty to any of the parties to order a 

 new valuation to be made once in every feven 

 years: the expences to be equally borne by the 

 rector and the parifh. 



The expence attending a meafure of this fort, 

 often reiterated, would be one confiderable objec- 

 tion. Many improvements in husbandry are at- 

 tended with heavy expences, and the return is fre- 

 quently uncertain. A feptennial reckoning with 

 the tithe-owner may damp that fpirit of induftry, 

 v Inch an exoneration from tithes is meant to pro- 

 duce. A difagreeable anxiety would attend pro- 

 perty often fubmitted to arbitration. And when 

 we confider that men have been perverfe enough to 

 let their lands lie unfown, in order to deprive the 

 rector of his tithe, we may take it for granted that 

 there would not be wanting thofe, who, with an 

 unworthy policy, would take every poflible ftep to 

 warp the judgments of the arbitrators, by depreci- 

 ating the value of their tithes previous to fuch fep- 

 tennial, or any other regular valuation. 



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