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 true value of the premies to the Treaury, atteted on their oaths. No abue can therefore take place, nor any undue favour be hewn, under the proviions of this law, unles urveyors of eminence in their line hall deliberately perjure themelves, or a Treaury hall be found bold enough to grant leaes, or renew them, at a les value than hall be certified to them, which could not ecape immediate detection, as there is a claue in the act requiring an account to be laid before Parliament annually, "of what leaes or grants hall have been made in the year preceding; for what terms or "etates; the annual value, as returned on oath by the urveyors; the annual value of the lat preceding urvey; what rents hall have been reerved, or what fines paid; and upon what other coniderations uch leaes hall have been repectively made."

More trict proviions to guard againt any evaion of the law could hardly have been devied.Under this management the revenue ariing from the etates of the Crown has increaed, in the fifteen years ice the law took effect, from 4,251L to 635862l and will go on improving till it amounts