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true value of the premiſes to the Treaſury, atteſted on their oaths. No abuſe can therefore take place, nor any undue favour be ſhewn, under the proviſions of this law, unleſs ſurveyors of eminence in their line ſhall deliberately perjure themſelves, or a Treaſury ſhall be found bold enough to grant leaſes, or renew them, at a leſs value than ſhall be certified to them, which could not eſcape immediate detection, as there is a clauſe in the act requiring an account to be laid before Parliament annually, "of what leaſes or grants ſhall have been made in the year preceding; for what terms or "eſtates; the annual value, as returned on oath by the ſurveyors; the annual value of the laſt preceding ſurvey; what rents ſhall have been reſerved, or what fines paid; and upon what other conſiderations ſuch leaſes ſhall have been reſpectively made."
More ſtrict proviſions to guard againſt any evaſion of the law could hardly have been deviſed.Under this management the revenue ariſing from the eſtates of the Crown has increaſed, in the fifteen years ſice the law took effect, from 4,251L to 635862l and will go on improving till it
