Tithe commutation tables. [With] Annual suppl

TITHE COMMUTATION TABLES,

FOR ASCERTAINING, AT SIGHT, THE AMOUNT OF

CORN-RENT

IN BUSHELS,

(AS DIRECTED BY THE ACT OF 6 AND 7 WILLIAM IV. CAP. 71),

EQUIVALENT TO THE TITHE-RENT,

FIXED AS THE BASIS IN THE DRAFT OF APPORTIONMENT:

ALSO,

SHEWING THE AMOUNT OF

TITHE RENT-CHARGE

PAYABLE FOR THE YEAR

1837,

ACCORDING TO THE AVERAGE PRICES OF WHEAT, BARLEY, AND OATS,

FOR THE SEVEN PRECEDING YEARS, TO CHRISTMAS 1836,

AS DECLARED IN THE

LONDON GAZETTE OF 13TH JANUARY, 1837.

BY CHARLES M. WILLICH,

SECRETARY AND ACTUARY TO THE UNIVERSITY LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN.

By the Tithe Commutation Act, all Tithes will be converted into a Corn-Rent of so many bushels of Wheat, Barley, and Oats; but, instead of the party paying such Corn-Rent in kind, it directs that the respective quantities shall be annually valued at the average prices for the seven preceding years, and the amount thereof shall be the Tithe Rent-Charge for the following year.

The object in view has been to arrange the TITHE COMMUTATION TABLES in such a manner as may enable any individual to ascertain with ease the quantity of Wheat, Barley, and Oats, which is to be inserted in the Draft of Apportionment, or Schedule, against each amount of Tithe-Rent; and to shew, at the same time, the amount of Tithe Rent-Charge he is to receive or to pay for the current year.

The 53d clause of the Tithe Act directs, that the Draft of every Apportionment or Schedule annexed, shall state the amount of Rent-Charge, charged on the said several lands included in the agreement or award. And by the 57th clause, it directs that such amounts of Rent-Charge shall be divided into three portions; and that every Rent-Charge so charged on any lands by such apportionment, shall be deemed to be of the value of such number of Imperial Bushels, and decimal parts of an Imperial Bushel, of Wheat, Barley, and Oats, as the same would have purchased, at the average prices for seven years ending Thursday before Christmasday, 1835, in case one-third part of such Rent-Charge had been invested in the purchase of Wheat, one-third part thereof in the purchase of Barley, and the remaining one-third part thereof in the purchase of Oats; and the respective quantities of Wheat, Barley, and Oats so ascertained, shall be stated in the draft of every Apportionment.

E. G. Suppose the amount of Rent-Charge agreed upon in the Draft of Apportionment be £100; on referring to the Table, the proper quantities of Wheat, Barley, and Oats, will be seen, forming the Corn-Rent to be inserted, in the said Draft of Apportionment or Schedule annexed, against the Rent-Charge of £100 viz.

And on the same line will also be found the money value, amounting to £98: 13:92, of such Wheat, Barley, and Oats, according to the average prices for seven years, to Thursday before Christmas-day 1836, as declared in the "London Gazette" of 13th January, 1837, and which sum is the Tithe Rent-Charge payable for the year 1837.

Answers to almost every amount of Rent-Charge which may be inserted in the Draft of Apportionment, will be found in the Tables. If the exact sum be not found, the difference must be under 5s., as the answers are given for each 5s. up to £100. Therefore, if we suppose the Rent-Charge in the Draft of Apportionment, or Schedule annexed, to be £49:3:9, we find by the Tables,