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expeft to be found by thernfelves. They 

 then mould have the land, free of every 

 tax, without any rent or charge, for tea 

 years ; at the end of which period every 

 farmer mould be examined, and every farmer 

 who had improved his lands well, and 

 had got them all in culture, with an in- 

 creafe of cattle, fhould have fifty acres 

 more thrown to his farm, inclofed for him, 

 for ten years alfo, without rent, but paying 

 io4d. an acre for the former fifty, and fo 

 on, raifmg his rent every ten years of the 

 land he had enjoyed ten years without rent, 

 till it was riferf to the common value of 

 other fuch lands in France ; and I would 

 exempt every farmer for ever from tailic 

 and capitation, laying, inftead thereof, a 

 fixed tax per acre on the land, after a cer- 

 tain period. 



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The building would coft 7100 

 The inclofing 10 o o 



Stock 13 13 o 



Seed 3 



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