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manner as commutations are now fettled and regu- 

 lated daily under inclofure a£l:s, by a ratio deduced 

 from the price of wheat alone. 



It may be faid that the price of the tithes, when 

 once fettled, might remain the fame for more than one 

 ysar. — I anfwer, that as the many pariflies which now 

 pay rents of this kind in lieu of tithes, and the many 

 others yet remaining to be fettled, mufl: neceffarily 

 begin from different periods; it follows, that the juf- 

 tices mufi make a return every year. But the tithe- 

 owners and the tithe-renters, are not obliged to alter 

 the terms every year ; but may, if they think proper, 

 make agreements for three, fe*uen, or fourteen years , 

 or for as long time as their refpeflive interefls Ihall 

 continue. 



With refpeft to the tithes of fuch valuable articles 

 as hops, hemp, flax, &c. the legiflature might fix a 

 fair price per acre for each, and fuch as would not 

 be fufficient to prevent the cultivation of thofe ar- 

 ticles in land naturally adapted to themj at the fame 

 time recollecting, that, as they are produced in ge- 

 neral in the very bed land, the price to be fixed for 

 the tithes fliould bear a proportion to the fuperior 

 value of the land, and to the tithes it would produce 

 if the cultivation of thofe articles were fuperfeded by 

 the cultivation of corn. 



And whenever a general commutation takes place, 

 the rife and fall thereof might follow the average 



price 



