For notice of application { One shilling for every five pounds and to the Court { fraction above five pounds or any multiple { of five pounds of the sum claimed. { One shilling and sixpence for every five For making the order { pounds and fraction above five pounds { or any multiple of five pounds of the { sum claimed. But the total fee in any one case shall not exceed— For notice of the application Ten shillings. For making the order Fifteen shillings. REMARK ON THE TITHE ACT, 1891. I. i. The main principle of this Act, is that the tithe rentcharge is in future payable by the owner of the lands and not by the occupier, unless he is also owner. The same principle existed in the Tithe Commutation Act of 1836. But unfortunately the 80th section of that Act, out of which landlords contracted themselves, says that “any tenant who shall pay any such rentcharge, shall be entitled to deduct the amount thereof from the rent payable by him to his landlord, and shall be allowed the same in account with his landlord.” Very few tenants deducted the tithes from their rents according to this section. It therefore became the general practice for the tenants in their leases or agreements, to agree to pay certain rents to the landlord, and also the tithe rentcharge to the tithe-owner. This Act carries out the intention of the Commutation Act in making the landowners liable to the payment of the tithe rentcharge. The Lords made a wise addition to subsection 1, viz. that, “Any contract made between an occupier and owner of lands _after_ the passing of this Act, for the payment of tithe rentcharge by the occupier, _shall be void_.” The Bill on leaving the Commons, provided, in subsection 2, for contracts made _before_ the passing of this Act, but made no provision against contracts made _after_ the passing of the Act, thus leaving the door open to contracts which may be made _after_ the passing of the Act. The owner of the lands is now the collector of the tithe-owner. And the great advantages which the tithe-owner derives from this Act increase the market value of the rentcharge fully 25 per cent; and it will materially increase the value of the rentcharge when redeemed. I. 3. It gives power to the owner to distrain for the sum equivalent to the tithe rentcharge paid by the owner of the lands and due by the occupier under a contract made previous to the passing of this Act, according to section 85 of the Act of 1836. The present Act thus transfers the unpopular system of distraint from the tithe-owner to the owner of the lands. No doubt section 85 was framed with a view of preventing tenants escaping payment by removing produce and stock from one field to another.