Note 15 — THIRTY YEARS OF LIBERAL LEGISLATION.

Lords' Report on Real Property, pp. 8, 9. In our last Number we stated the amount of heritable property at £63,000,000, from a desire to be within rather than beyond the truth. But the latter figure was taken from the Poors' Rate return, which, as the Lords' Report justly states, is always below the truth; and their own report of £85,000,000 is taken from the rating for the property tax, founded on the returns by the occupants.—See Lords' Report on Real Property, p. ix.