Note 13 — Chapter III

According to the Local Government Report of 1878, the rental of all the properties over five hundred acres averaged thirty-six shillings an acre; that of properties between fifty and a hundred acres, forty-eight shillings an acre; and that of properties between ten and fifty acres, a hundred and sixteen shillings an acre. In Scotland, the rental of properties over five hundred acres averaged nine shillings an acre: that of properties between ten and fifty acres, four hundred and thirteen shillings. With regard to the value of properties under ten acres, the following Scotch statistics are interesting. Four-fifths of the ground rental of Edinburgh is taken by owners of less than one acre, the rental of such owners being on an average ninety-nine pounds. Three-fourths of the ground rental of Glasgow is taken by owners of similar plots of ground; only there the rental of such owners is a hundred and seventy-one pounds. In the municipal borough of Kilmarnock, land owned in plots of less than an acre lets per acre at thirty-two pounds. The land of the few men who own larger plots lets for not more than twenty pounds. Each one of the eleven thousand men who own collectively four-fifths of Edinburgh, has in point of money as much stake in the soil as though he were the owner in Sutherland of two thousand acres: and each one of the ten thousand men who own collectively three-fourths of Glasgow, has as much stake in the soil as though he were the owner in Sutherland of three thousand four hundred acres.