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Art. XII. 

 On the Liconvenience of the prefent Syjtem of Tithlb, 



Extra£led from the County Agricultural Surveys, 



'TPHE reafons v.liich induced the Committee to 

 -*' adopt the plan of giving extracts from the 

 County Surveys refpefting wafie lands, have operated 

 in favour of fuch exti-afts on the fubjeft of tithes. 

 The fubjeft being one of thofe prominent ones which 

 conftantly engage the notice of farmers, and the 

 publick — and being confidered in diiFerent points of 

 view, by parties differently interefted concerning 

 them, it has been thought, that the condenfed 

 opinions of numerous furveyors and writers, who 

 had opportunities of obferving the local effect of 

 this fyftem, as they proceeded, would be an agree- 

 jible and ufeful article in this publication. 



Survey of Bkrkshire, p. 49. 

 With refpeft to tithes, the praftice generally fol- 

 lowed in the prefent mode of inclofmg, of *' allot- 

 *' ting land in lieu of them," is certainly a good 

 one; and preferable in my opinion to a corn rent, 

 or any mode which obliges the clergyman to depend 

 on the induftry of his parifliioncrs for his income. 

 The only objeftion that can be raifed, is, that the 



clergyman 



