A TREATISE ON THE VALUATION OF PROPERTY FOR THE POOR'S RATE; SHOWING THE METHOD OF RATING LANDS, BUILDINGS, TITHES, MINES, WOODS, LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. PREFACE. THE poor-rates of England have in creased so much of late years, and are become such a burthensome tax on property, that the principles on which they are founded and computed are, at the present period, a matter of anxious inquiry. No work, exclusively on this subject, has hitherto appeared. Small patches on the liability of property to the poor's rate may be found in lawbooks; the most important of which are selected and blended with practical information in the present undertaking. The most recent decisions of cases on the poor-rates are abstracted, and it has been humbly attempted by the |