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antagonism to the conditions which usually regulate the relations betwixt man and man, and therefore I need not dwell upon it longer.[1]

    tween the valuations made by a Civil Engineer, and by the Ordnance valuation of the same lots:—

    KILLTEWINGAN.
    Engineer £120 0 0
    Tenement valuation 57 0 0
    No. 5.
    Valuator £8 10 0
    Tenement valuation 2 5 0
    RATHCLINE.
    Valuator £29 17 7
    Tenement valuation 8 0 0
    FOX AND CALF ISLAND.
    Valuator £10 0 0
    Tenement valuation 3 0 0
    LOT 9.
    Valuator £10 0 0
    Tenement valuation 1 6 0
    LOT 10.
    Valuator £8 4 3
    Tenement valuation 1 4 0

    In the estate of Rutledge the following are two of the valuations : —

    CREGGANROE.
    Valuator £53 1 7
    Tenement valuation 17 10 0
    BALLYKIT.
    Valuator £226 13 7
    Tenement valuation 131 12 0

    Although the valuations which I have stated differ so much, I believe that they were all honestly made by careful and skilful professional valuators. I have given those examples, not as  

  1. "And, first, as to fixity of tenure,–that is to say, a law that every occupying tenant, no matter what his contract may be,