Hie Making of the Land in England. 
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£ 
The net income of the Estate in 1841 was .. .. 30,499 
The average of ten ye;ivs to 1841 was 25,208 
The net income in 1860 was 26,740 
The net income in 1882 was 25,402 
The net income in 1885 was 27,523 
It is interesting to examine, by the way, the payments which 
in the year 1882 came off the year's income of 52,285/., amount- 
ing as they do to over one-hall of this gross income. They were 
as follow : — 
£, s. d. £ s. d. 
Land tax 1,410 2 7 
Property tax 1 , 183 0 10 
Out rents 4,879 10 5 
Parochial rates 279 4 1 
Tithe rent charge .... 6,481 3 0 
Voluntary payments .. .. 680 17 7 
Buildings and repairs .. .. 8,836 4 63 
Gates and fences 401 1 5| 
Underdraining 1,192 14 7 
Law charges 146 7 3 
Management 1,303 17 10 
Sundry disbursements . . . . 812 9 
14,913 18 6 
11,061 8 5 
Total sav, £20,875 0 0 
Net profit .. .. say, 25,410 0 0 
The average cost from the year 1852 to the year 1883 has 
been annually 
£ s. d. 
For buildings and repairs 8,083 6 0 
Gates and fences 332 11 8 
Underdraining 760 4 5 
Total £9,176 2 1 
The amount annually expended in buildings and repairs 
alone from Michaelmas 1815 to April 1868, a period of fifty- 
two years, was 837 IZ. 18s. 3rf. 
Here we have an instance of an expenditure during 107 years 
of over one million sterling on one estate, in the purchase of land 
and in work and payments necessary to insure this rental of 52,285/. 
Applying the same rule as in the Connington case, and taking 
the interest of half this amount at 4 per cent, during the whole 
period, the proprietor from this source alone would have derived 
an annual income of 20,OOOZ., only 5410/. less than the net income 
of the improved and enlarged estate at the present time ; or if 
the owners had only hoarded the sums annually spent on the 
maintenance of their estate during the period under considera- 
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