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Of the diminution of that kind of traffic which is most injurious.
19. Are the landowners and the tenants benefited by the reduction in the rates?
I have conversed with many of them, who acknowledge the sums paid to the parochial and other rates are very large.
20. They are benefited then by it?
I take that for granted.
21. To what extent do you pay parochial and other rates?
We are assessed on the amount of our net income.
22. To what yearly amount in round numbers?
I find it impossible, unprepared as I am, to do that; in some parishes it is about half of the whole rates.
23. That is, half of the rates of some of the parishes is borne by the Company?
Yes; and some more than that.
24. Do you consider that the Railroad does any injury to the game on the property?
We have never had but one complaint, four years ago; the Company put down the objection,—the cause of the objection.
29. Are you a landowner yourself in the neighbourhood of the Railroad?
Yes. I am.
30. How near does it pass to your property?
I have one small estate which it intersects in two equal parts, nearly.
31. Does it pass near to the homestead?
It passes through the inclosure in which the homestead stands.
32. Have, then, you or the landowners been benefited in respect of draining by the Railroad passing?
I have, by the cutting fourteen to sixteen feet deep through, that I have sunk myself; and I observe where there were cuttings the landowners do avail themselves of then as drains.
