IS 
A COTTAGE AND GA'rDEN 
from father to son, like those little estates, 
which we contemplate with so much plea- 
sure in Burrodale. If therefore, the ex- 
emption from rent, taxes,* Sec. continued 
no longer than while the cottage was both 
the property and residence of a parishioner, 
generally working within his parish, it 
would not be of half as much value to any 
other person, as to him for whom it was 
originally intended ; and if in some in- 
stances they got into other hands, they 
would soon return again into the possession 
of the labouring parishioner. 
As the means of promoting 1 industry 
The kind of anc * good conduct' among the 
preference poor, I should hope that a pre- 
andaidtobe ference would be given to" in- 
given. tt dustrious' parishioners/ mem- 
" bers of friendly societies and that the 
character of the man, the number of his 
children, and other eircums'tances, would 
induce the' farmers to give himtbe carriage 
' * The exemption from land tax would create another 
exemption ; that of not having to attend county elec- 
tions. Iu might be proper that no settlement should be; 
affected, or varied, by any ownership or occupation of 
these cottages': 'and that the performance of the con- 
dition, by the- erection, of the cottage, should be certi- 
:.fie,d and. recorded at the quarter sessions. The rent to 
be paid by a stranger should not be less than a guinea a 
'year; to be distributable In fuel among the poor of the 
parish at Christmas,- This would serve at once as a pe- 
nalty on- the, intruder., and as a compensation to the 
