appears to be perfectly competent to form a correct opinion on the
subject, laid before the commissioners, as the result of his own
experience, the following statement:--
Comparative Valuation of the Barony of Carberry, co. Kildare, all
situated between twenty and thirty miles of Dublin; with two canals
passing through it, and consisting of 45,000 acres of good feeding
and tillage land, with a similar quantity of equally good land, or
nearly so, in England, Scotland, France, and Belgium, originally
made in 1828, and since corrected:--
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| England. | Scotland. | Belgium. | France. | Ireland.
+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------
| L s. d.| L s. d.| L s. d.| L s. d.| L s. d.
Gross contents, 48,278 acres,}| | | | |
rent calculated on 42,000 }|55,650 0 0 |75,600 0 0 |55,650 0 0|41,938 0 0 |31,500 0 0
acres, }| | (Taxation | | |
| | included.) | | |
Tithe and direct taxation, |17,955 0 0 | 0 0 0 | 7,481 0 0 | 5,962 0 0 | 0 0 0
Poor-rate, one half, | 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 | 325 7 6
County Cess. 1s. 8d. in the } | | | | |
pound, on Mr Griffth's } | 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 | 2,266 13 4
valuation, } | | | | |
+------------+------------+------------+------------+-----------
Total, | 73,605 0 0 | 75,600 0 0 | 63,131 0 0 | 47,900 0 0 |34,092 0 10
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Total to landlord, L.31,500 0 0
Deduct landlord's half, poor-rate, L.325 7 6
Rent-charge, 4d. in the pound, 563 6 0
--------- 888 13 6
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Total to landlord in Ireland, net, L.30,611 6 6
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