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exertions of human induflry, are in a confiderable 

 degree a prohibition of fuch exertion, and in that 

 refpeft a6l as a dead weight and a check on that 

 fpirit of improvement, which it is good pohcy to en- 

 courage by every means that can be devifed. If an 

 equivalent can be found, and a commutation be ef- 

 feifled, without injury to any one concerned, fuch 

 regulation would doubilefs be aji improvement in 

 our political fyftem. 



The following plan is propofed as the outline of 

 an exchange of tithes for land, as land will always 

 bear a value proportioned to that of its produce, 

 and even the price or value of labour is meafured by 

 the fame flandard. 



Let an aft of parliament appoint in every diocefe 

 an equal number of the moft refpeftable clergy and 

 country gentlemen, commiifioners and truftees, and 

 with a power of nominating furveyors to value all 

 the tithes belonging either to the clergy or the laity 

 within the diocefe j and let the aft give an option to 

 the land-owners of purchafing their refpeftive tithes 

 at the valuation fixed on them by fuch furveyors ; 

 the money arifing from fuch redemption might be 

 inverted in the funds, or other fecurities, until a pro- 

 per opportunity fliould offer of laying it out in land; 

 and where the land-owners fliould refufe to pur- 

 chafe fuch tithes, the commiflioners might have a 

 power of mortgaging them, or of taking up money 



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