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would remove the complaints of thofe who compare 

 the prefent mode of payment to the taille or old land- 

 tax of France, which was collefled by the different 

 intendants according to the goodnefs of the crop. 



2dly, There is another plan, which we think befl: 

 of. After the tithes are valued as aforefaid, let them 

 he offered to the refpeftive proprietors of land at 

 thirty years purchafe, which every man, who knows 

 his own intereftj, would gladly accept in order to 

 get quit of them, The purchafe-money, where 

 they belong to the clergy, to be vefted in govern^ 

 ment flock, in name of the particular parifli from 

 whence it is produced, and the intereft regularly 

 paid to the incumbent. Where the tithes are the 

 property of the laymen, the purchafe-money might 

 be immediately paid into their own hands. 



Confidering the fubjeft in a moral point of view, 

 every well-difpofed perfon mud lament that the col- 

 leftion of a tax, purpofely given for the fupport of 

 religion, fiiould be the means of creating difrefpe^l 

 for its minifters. There are no arguments neceffary 

 to prove, that, where the clergyman differs from his 

 parilhioners upon this fubjeft, the ufefulnefs of his 

 office is totally fruflrated ; which makes not only the 

 praftice, but even the profeffion of religion, to be 

 difregarded. 



IBID. p. 69. 



With regard to the tithe-holders, they are, per. 

 ^aps, of opinion, that the full value of the tithes is as 



much 



