A GENERAL BILL OF CHRISTENINGS AND BURIALS, From DECEMBER 11, 1792, to DECEMBER 10, 1793. * There have been executed, in Middlefex and Surrey, 25; of which number 7 only havę been reported to be buried (as such) within the bills of mortality. The The propofed augmentation and equalization of the Land Tax, rendering it a fubject of much tereft to the public, it may not be unacceptable to many of our readers to be informed, that the caufe of the difproportion of its operation proceeds from its having been originally a kind of voluntary contribution, levied for the fervice of the flate in the reign of king William.-The fum agreed to be raised by it, viz. (2000000l.) was divided into five hundred and thirteen parts, being the number of the members for England and Wales, and it was left to the option of the feveral counties to pay as many of thofe parts as they thought proper, or could afford; the confequence was, that fome of them, Counties. Acres. celebrated for their loyalty, took upon them the payment of immenfe fums, while others, although equally capable if bearing the burden, contributed very sparingly indeed. For instance, Middlejex agreed to pay eighty parts, Effex and York twenty-four each, and Norfolk and Kent twenty-two each; whereas Weftmoreland and Cumberland would fubfcribe only one each, Rutland two, and Durbam three. In this manner it has ever fince been voted from year to year, down to the present time. The following Table fhews the quantity of land in the feveral counties, the number of members returned by each, and the parts paid by them, together with the amount of their produce. Parts. Produce. 30 24 Memb. or £92631 4 0 81052 6 73333 30877 I 8 Hants Kent 82911 18 8 An ACCOUNT of the Total Net Produce of the TAXES for one Year, ended the 5th Day of January 1793. Men fervants, 1777 (arrears) Houfes and windows, 1747, 1762, and 1764 (arrears) 156000 0 365993 4 9 23097 5 637 19 8 203484 3 9 960 O 6 8 500 0 2272 15 4 DUTIES Anno 1791. Sugars, customs British fpirits, excife Foreign ditto 24 31/1 41290 32117 I 331276 3 148328 18 3130 1210 O 98372 9 28426 2 125932 14 955 14 4339 10 9902 14 34 4 13 I 2 |