1 8 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY OF ckap. 7, 



ally. It is to be observed, however, that the 

 presbytery of Dunfermline, besides the parishes 

 belonging to the county of Fife, includes the 

 parishes of Kinross, Cleish and Orwell, which 

 are within the bounds of Kinross-shire, and 

 Culross in the county of Perth. And Port- 

 moak, though in the county of Kinross, is joined 

 to the presbytery of Kirkaldy. 



The two counties of Fife and Kinross, as has 

 been already said, are subject to the jurisdiction 

 of one sheriff-depute, who has two substitutes, 

 one for Fife, and another for Kinross. 



The county has also been divided into four 

 districts for regulating the police, and transact- 

 ing county business, with greater convenience 

 and dispatch, called by the same names, and 

 comprehending the fame parishes, with the four 

 presbyteries above mentioned. The proceed- 

 ings of the district meetings are reported to the 

 general meeting of the gentlemen, which is an- 

 nually held at Cupar, the head burgh of the 

 county. Within these several districts, Justice- 

 of-Peace-courts are held, when necessary, whose 

 decisions are subject to the review of the Quar- 

 ter Sessions. In different parts of the county, 

 courts have likewise been established for the re- 

 covery of small debts ; the benefit of which is, 

 every day, more and more sensibly felt, in re- 

 spect both of the equity of their decisions, the 

 dispatch of business, and the smallness of the 

 expence and trouble to which parties are ex- 

 posed. 



