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Thefe added together make one guinea, which 

 divided by 4, (the number of markets) gives 5s. 

 3d. which is to be entered with the Clerk of the 

 Peace as the average price of a bufhel of wheat in 

 the year , for the county of Wilts.* 



If an act of parliament for this purpofe fhould 

 pafs, in or before the year 1790, the average price 

 of a bufhel of wheat for each year being proved, 

 and regiftered as aforefaid, until the year 18005 

 the whole mould then be added together j and an 

 average for that period be taken, and publifhed in 

 the court of Quarter-Seffions, and alfo in fuch 

 country news-papers as circulate through that 

 county. In the years 18 10, 1820, 1830, and at a 

 like decennial period ever after, the averages fhould 

 be collected. Thofe parifhes where a commuta- 

 tion takes place before the year 1800, may be 

 varied in the year 18103 and thofe commuted for 

 from the year 1800 to 18 10, may be varied in the 

 year 1820: thus, 



* The only reafons for preferring the three months before- mentioned, are t 

 that it will be lefs trouble, and the prices will be more eafily remembered by 

 thofe w*ho attend the feffions, than the prices for a longer period. The 

 markets at this time of the year are generally full, and the period is fufficiently 

 long to prevent any collufion. Whether the exaft average of the year can 

 by thefe means be obtained, does not feem of fo much confequence as, whe- 

 ther the average of the firft ten years bears a due proportion to the average 

 collected, in like manner, during a period of any fubfequent ten years. 

 However, if fix months or the whole year be preferred, for collecting the 

 average of each year refpedively, it may be done without much trouble} 

 and the principle will remain the fame. 



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