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APPENDIX. 



No. I. 



ABSTRACTS FROM ACTS OF PARLIAMENT RELATING TO 

 HUSBANDRY. 



Right of Voting. 



Stat. 2 Will. IV., c. 45. 



1. Freeholders. — Of inheritance of the yearly value of 40s. above"! Whether 

 rents and charges. >■ occupied 



For life or lives of the yearly value of lOA above rents and charges.! or not. 



For life or lives of the yearly value of 40.S'. above rents and charges, occupied 

 by such freeholders : or, although not occupied, which would have entitled 

 them to vote on the 7th of June, 1832 ; or acquired after that time by marriage, 

 devise, or by promotion to a benefice or office. 



Freeholds for life may be acquired in right of a" benefice or an office— as 

 clergymen, parish clerks, &c., with salaries derived from lands : they may also 

 arise from tithes, rent-charges, &c. Ibid., sec. 18. 



2. Cojnjholders. — For life or larger estate of copyhold, or any other tenure 

 except freehold, of the yearly value of 10/. above rents and charges. — Ibid., 

 sec. 19. 



3. Leaseholders, being Tenants actually occupying lands at a yearly rent of 

 not less than 50/. 



Lessees of 10/. yearly value, for terms not less than forty years.] Whether 

 Ditto of 50/. ditto, for terms not less than twenty years. > occupied or 



Assignee of the residue of such terms. j not. 



Freeholders and copyholders must have been in possession or in receipt of 



their profits for six calendar months, and leaseholders for twelve months. 



Tenants must have occupied their land during twelve months before the last 



day of July in each year, except in cases of descent, devise, marriage. — Ibid., 



sec. 20. 



Tithe Commutation Act. 



Stat. 6and7 Will. IV., 0,71. 



Officers under the Act. — Three Commissioners, who may appoint, to the num- 

 ber of twelve. Assistant Commissioners, or more, if they obtain consent of the 

 Government, Office to be in London or Westminster ; salaries, expenses, &c., 

 to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund. 



Principle of Commutation. — Tithe to be commuted into a permanent corn- 

 rent or charge. That is to say, a certain amount of produce is to be assigned to 

 the tithe-owner, the value of which, varying with the price of corn, is to be paid 

 in money, payable by half-yearly payments on the 1st of July and 1st of January. 



Exception to the Principle of Commutation. — A parochial agreement may be 

 made to give an ecclesiastical tithe-owner a certain amount of land, not exceed- 

 ing in quantity twenty imperial acres, for the whole or part of the great or small 

 tithes of the parish, in lieu of fixing a permanent corn-rent. But this is subject 

 to the sanction of the Commissioners, who must be satisfied of the soundness of 

 title to the land. 



Methods of Commutation. — Two methods: — 1, Voluntary, by agreement 

 amongst the parties concerned, subject to approval of Commissioners. 2. Com- 



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