Note 12 — Chapter III
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Recent falls in rent make it impossible to give the figures with actual precision; but the returns in the New Doomsday Book, taken together with subsequent official information, enable us to arrive at the substantial facts of the case. In 1878 the rental of the owners of more than a thousand acres was twenty-nine million pounds. The rental of the rural owners of smaller estates was thirty-two million pounds; and the rental of small urban and suburban owners was thirty-six million pounds. The suburban properties averaged three and a half acres, the average rent being thirteen pounds per acre.