General view of the agriculture of the county of Lancaster with observations on the means of its improvement, from the communications of Mr. John Holt and the additional remarks of several respectable gentlemen and farmers in the county / Drawn up for ... the Board of Agriculture.

  • Great Britain. Board of Agriculture.
Date:
1795
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Credit: General view of the agriculture of the county of Lancaster with observations on the means of its improvement, from the communications of Mr. John Holt and the additional remarks of several respectable gentlemen and farmers in the county / Drawn up for ... the Board of Agriculture. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N“ 3. CINCE the above Report was drawn up, the following pa- ^ per was tranfmitted, by an a£l:ive and intelligent magiftrate for the county of Lancafter. Ohfervations on the Com Aft, 31ft Geo. III. chap. Xxx. refpefting the Salaries of the Corn Infpeftors. It is infifted, that the clear meaning of the legiflature was, to defray the cxpences of its execution) and amongft thefe the falaries of the corn-infpeftors, from the duties to be paid on the importation of foreign corn. In proof of this'—, , ' I. Be it obferved, that by the 15th, i6th, 17th, and i8th claufes, various duties are impofed on foreign corn imported ; and are put under the management of the commiflioners of the cuftoms. 2. 'That by the 74th claufe, and the two following ones* exprefs provifion is made for the re-payment of the monies paid by the county treafurers, viz. (5^. for each return) charging alfo the deficiency (if anyj to the general cuftom-houie account to make good. 3. That the regulations for the port of London^ in claufes 43, 44, 45, and 46,- provide for the falary of the corn-in- fpeftor there., from the duty of one penny on Briujh corn, and two pence for foreign corn imported. This is plainly done from the juft view of the fubjeft—as of national, and not of concern; and therefore-no partial burden is thrown on the city of London to pay their corn-in- fpeftor; and there can be no doubt, that on the-fame principl*- of equity, all other parts of the kingdom were intended to be equally exempted from local impofitions. 4. That