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 and paid under feudal government, ii. 12; present average proportion of, compared with the produce of the land, 13.

Rent of houses distinguished into two parts, iii. 246; difference between rent of houses, and rent of land, 250; rent of a house the best estimate of a tenant's circumstances, ibid.

Retainers, under the feudal system of government, described, ii. 108; how the connection between them and their lords was broken, 112–113

Revenue, the original sources of, pointed out, i. 104–105; of a country, of what it consists, 395–396; the net revenue of a society diminished by supporting a circulating stock of money, 399; money no part of revenue, 400; is not to be computed in money, but in what money will purchase, 402.—How produced, and how appropriated, in the first instance, ii. 9–10; produce of land, 10; produce of manufactures, ibid.; must always replace capital, ibid.; the proportion between revenue and capital, regulates the proportion between idleness and industry, 17; both the savings and the spendings of, annually consumed, 18; of every society, equal to the exchangeable value of the whole produce of its industry, 160; of the customs, increased by drawbacks, 226.—Why government ought not to take the management of turnpikes, to derive a revenue from them, iii. 91; public works of a local nature, always better maintained by provincial revenues, than by the general revenue of the state, 96; the abuses in provincial revenues trifling, when compared with those in the revenue of a great empire, 97; the greater the revenue of the church, the smaller must be that of the state, 208; the revenue of the state ought to be raised proportionably from the whole society, 211; local expenses ought to be defrayed by a local revenue, ibid.; inquiry into the sources of public revenues, 213; of the republic of Hamburg, 214, 217; whether the government of Britain could undertake the management of the Bank, to derive a revenue from it, 214; the post-office a mercantile project well calculated for being managed by government, 215; princes not well qualified to improve their fortunes by trade, ibid.; the English East India Company good traders before they became sovereigns, but each character now spoils the other, 216; expedient of the government of Pennsylvania to raise money, 217; rent of land the most permanent fund, 218; feudal revenues, 219; of Great Britain, 220–221; revenue from land proportioned, not to the rent, but to the produce, 222; reasons for selling the crown lands, 223; an improved land tax suggested, 232; the nature and effect of tithes explained, 241; why a revenue cannot be raised in kind, 244; when raised in money, how affected by different modes of valuation, 244–245; a proportionable tax on houses, the best source of revenue, 250; remedies for the diminution of, according to their causes, 308; bad effects of farming out public revenues, 336; the different sources of revenue in