In the table of proportions, the value of money in the 

 year 1800 is stated to be, to the value of money in the 

 year 1688, as 562 to 224; and these several sums are in 

 the same proportion 19 the respective prices under which 

 Bounties were given, and to the different Bounties as settled 

 by the 41th of Geo. III. Cap. 109. 



No. 8. 



Comparisons of the prices of Wheat at different periods, 

 for the purpose of shewing the diminution in the value of 

 Wheat, occasioned by the Bounty granted in 1688 ; ex- 

 tracted from a Pamphlet, printed betwixt the years 1745 

 and 1750; to display the damages farmers had sustained 

 from the Bounty on Corn. 



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The price of Wheat per Quarter upon a medium 

 taken en 43 years from 1646, being the first 

 year the account commences, to 1688, the 

 year before the Bounty was allowed, appears 

 to be at the rate of 



From the medium taken on 43 years from 1689, 

 being the first year the Bounty took place, 

 to the yenr 1731, the price of Wheat per 



Quarter appears to bfe... I 18 



-i_^ : 



An annual loss to the farmer since the Bounty 

 tookplace 12 8 



From 1669 to 1688, being the last 20 years, 

 before the Bounty was allowed, the price 

 of Wheat per Quarter was, at a medium...... 2 6 



From 1726 to 1745, being the last 20 years, 

 on this account the price of Wheat, at a 

 medium per Quarter was 1 l7 $ 



An annual loss to the farmer in price, since 



the Bounty took place 8 4 



