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faid, mufl: be granted: But the great increafe in the value of 

 lands exempted from tithes, arifing both from the exemption 

 and from the probable improvements to be made, will gene- 

 rally furniih the means of borrowing the money, where it is 

 wanted; — and few men would think it an evil to be obliged 

 to borrow money, even as high as at legal intereft, to get 

 rid of the incumbrance of tithes. 



But, at all events, fay the advocates for this meafure, an 

 acl fhould be granted to empower all ow ners of lands paying 

 tithes to lay-impropriators, to call a jury, and fettle the value, 

 and the fale, whenever fuch land-owners (hall be defirous fo 



to do. A reafonable prior notice of fuch intention, in 



any land-owner, would of courfe be prefcribed by law.— 

 Such open and deliberate tranfaiStions would preclude the 

 idea of difficulty on either fide; and it may be readily con- 

 ceived, that the progrefs of fuch voluntary adjuAments 

 through the country, and all the confequent benefits of 

 tiiem, would be no tardy v-^ork. — But for a more copious 

 collection of opinions on the fubject of tithes, the reader is 

 referred to the extraSls^ which it has been thou;:ht proper to 

 infert in this volume, from the numerous County surveys 

 which have been made under the direction of the Uoard 

 of Agriculture. 



Such, among other, perhaps equally ufeful, though of 

 iefs popular defcription, are the objciics which have enga- 

 ged the attention of this Society fince its lail publication^ 

 And it is hoped that fuch labours, and the following fruits 

 of the Society's correfpondence, will be accepted and ap- 

 proved by the publick, for whofe welfare the original plan of 

 this* infiitution thus continues to be purfued. 



Finally i 



