RATES AND TAXES 

 AS AFFECTING AGRICULTURE 



CHAPTER I 



GENERAL PRINCIPLES 



THE Final Report of the Royal Commission 

 on Local Taxation was issued in 1901. A 

 very able conspectus was presented of the 

 burdens, anomalies and inequities of the 

 present system, and a careful statement and 

 examination was given of the principal 

 remedies proposed. It is always dangerous 

 to attempt to summarise in a few sentences 

 the results of an elaborate inquiry of this 

 kind, but it is still more dangerous simply to 



