45 



6$. 9d. It has been ascertained, that five pence 

 per head for each of the family, or half-a-crown 

 for the whole, would provide the other smaller 

 articles. The wages of nine shillings a week, 

 therefore, will still nearly, if not quite suffice, 

 if the individual possess habits of industry, and 

 has due encouragement to exert it. The better 

 wages of hay-harvest and corn-harvest, and the 

 entire earnings of his wife, and any of his chil- 

 dren, will be found adequate to the charges for 

 ^clothing and food, and for the payment of 

 rent *. 



The quantum of relief to the farmer, if one 

 third in amount of these taxes was repealed, 



* A most serious evil has of late years been experienced 

 by the labourer in the great increase of rent exacted from 

 him ; four pounds and five pounds being often required as 

 the rent of a cottage for which only forty and fifty shillings 

 was paid a few years back. A mitigation of this evil would 

 far more effectually benefit the labourer, than the repeal 

 of all the five obnoxious taxes in one third of their amount ; 

 for, as has been shown, by the repeal of one third in amount 

 upon four out of the five a saving of no more than seven shil- 

 lings and sixpence could be expected to be obtained; viz. 



s. d. 



Leather 1 



Salt .3 9 



Soap .2 2 



Candles 7 



7 6 



