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SECT: 3 Tithes:

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Of this bane to Agriculture, we do not find any thing, peculiar to this county, which is not common to the reſt. In ſome parts the tithes are collected with moderation, in others with all the ſeverity that law can enforce; ſome let for a term of years at a fair rent, whilſt others value and let every year.

SECT. 4.— Poor Rates.

In Newcaſtle they vary from 2s. 6d. to 45s. ád. in the pound, in times of peace; but at preſent, All-Saints pa- riſh is as high as 6s. per pound, owing to the ſea-faring people living moſtly in this pariſh; and the failors being imprefled, their wives and children come for ſupport up-

on the pairſh.—At Hexham they are 2s. 6d.—Morpeth-

25. ód.— Alnwick 1s. I0d.—Belford 2s. 6d.—Berwick 25. 8d.—Wooler 15s. 6d.—and in other parts of the county wend they vary from ód, to 2s. per pound.

fs DECT. 5— Leaſes.

Leaſes—for twenty-one years, are let on moſt of the principal eſtates, eſpecially in the northern parts of the county. Some proprietors of land in the other diſtriQs let only for nine, twelve, or fifteen years. The general time of entry is the 12th of May.#"The covenants vary with circumſtances; but we think the following the beſt calculated for improvement, and the benefit of both land-

lord and tenant:

After the uſual reſervations of mines, woods,&c. and

* Upon the Duke of Northumberland?s eſtate the time of en- try is Lady-day, and the offgoing tenant has no waygoing crop.

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