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confiderable advantage to the nation ; but, if 

 this method fhould ftill be thought detriment- 

 al, he might be indulged with following 

 his own plans, for the trifling expence of fix- 

 pence to government for every acre laid out 

 in a manner different from that of the efta- 

 blifhed fyftem. Perhaps fome might think it 

 would be a better plan to afTefs all the farms 

 in the country at two-pence halfpenny an acre, 

 for the purpofe juft now mentioned. This 

 is no more than a voluntary contribution, on- 

 ly the fandlion of parliament would be nece- 

 fary to make every one equal. 



It might indeed be worth the confideration 

 of government, how far it would be proper 

 to impofe a tax upon thofe farmers who found 

 it for their intereft to differ from the national 

 plan. Each perfbn might be aflefTed in fo 

 much for every acre kept in corns and grafs 

 above the eftabliftied proportion, and fo much 

 for each acre of wafte ground that was nei- 

 ther improved nor planted. The taxes raifed 

 from thefe would be Very properly employed 

 in premiums to fuch farmers as raifed the 

 greateft quantities of corn and grafs, in fol- 

 lowing the rotation of crops fixed upon by 

 government for a national improvement ; nor 



would 



