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Art. XIII. 



On the mojl ■pra6ticahle Mode of giving an Equitable 

 Compenfation for Tithes. 



[By Thomas Davis, efq; in a Letter to the Secretary.] 



Sir, 



THE Society having thought proper to call the 

 attention of their members and of the publick, 

 to the fubjeft of Tithes, under a well-founded con- 

 viftion that the payment thereof in kind not only 

 tends to fow diffention between the clergy and their 

 parifliioners, but is alfo a very great hinderance to 

 improvements in agriculture, and having offered a pre- 

 mium for the beft effay on the mod practical mode 

 of giving an equitable compenfation for tithes in 

 genera] j 



The writer hereof begs leave to flate to the fo- 

 ciety, that having had a long and active experience 

 in fettling commutations for tithes under inclofure 

 afts of parliament, and having had an opportunity 

 of obferving the inconveniencies and defers in the 

 modes hitherto authorized and directed by parlia- 

 ment, he flatters himfelf that he can point out fuch 

 an alteration in thofe modes, as will lay a ground- 

 work for a general commutation; and which, if 



• The publication of this EfTay (to which the Society's prize was 

 .':tljudged) was omitltd in tlie 7th volume, at the requefl of the author. 



fandlioned 



