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with the land-owner, be entitled to his remedy by 

 diftrefs. But as this remedy is fuch a one as every 

 man of feeling, and particularly a clergyman, would 

 wifh to avoid, it would be proper for him to have 

 the privilege of calling on his parifhioners to nomi- 

 nate, at a veftry, two collectors, for whom they 

 lhould be refponfible. The clergyman to allow 

 them three-pence in the pound for collecting. If the 

 collectors of the land-tax were to be appointed for 

 that purpofe, it would be but little additional trouble, 

 and would make it well worth their attention. 



METHOD OF VARYING THE PAYMENT. 



As the value of money or of the neceffaries of 

 life rife or fall, on an average, fo lhould the pay- 

 ment for tithes rife or fall in like proportion. The 

 method of doing this fhould be as fimple, and cer- 

 tain, as little complicated, as general, and liable to 

 the lead trouble poflible. If we attempt to regifter 

 the various articles out of which tithes iflue ; — if 

 different commifnoners fix thcfe values for different 

 parifhes j — if each parifh is to be feparately confi- 

 dered, and regulated at the end of a certain number 

 of years from its firft payment; — if the fluctuating 

 values are from time to time to be determined by 

 particular markets, or by the prices on particular 

 days, it will lead pofterity into a labyrinth of trouble j 



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