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228 A TREATISE ON-THE CONNECTION OF

duties on salt for domestic purposes would not exceed 60,000]. a year; but the difference is to be made up by a similar tax to that recommended under the article of Horses and Cattle, together with a duty of 3d. in the pound on the rent paid by each farmer or occupier of ground, and ros. a ton on the salt rock exported to fo- reign countries: according to’-which plans, the salt duties

would amount to as follow:

To tons of salt for domestic consumption, at 1]. per ton=--& To tons of rock salt exported to Ireland

and abroad, at ros. per ton-=

To duty on horses,--

To duty on neat cattle,“

To 3d. in the pound on rent of land

which sum would exceed by the whole net

amount of the salt revenue of Britain.

But the increase of the revenue would not stop here, for as soon as the valuable application of salt for agricul-

ture, and the feeding of cattle, was generally known

and