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taken the ſame year. The tenants, by covenant, reſtrained from pariñg or burning, except mofs lands.

The tenants ſometimes reftrained, by covenant, from ſelling either hay or firaw, but are bound to conſume the whole upon the premiſes.

The tenants, by covenant, reſtrained from ſelling of their flock till the cloſe of the year, at the expiration of their term, that the greater quantity of dung may be raiſed from the pro- duce conſumed.

“The tenants allowed to take of three-fourths of the wheat growing upon the premiſes at the expiration of a leaſe. The fucceeding tenant to have the remaining quarter*.,

A ſucceed ng tenant to have permiſlion, after Candlemas, at the expiration of a leaſe, to occupy certain portions of the out- buildings, by clauſes founded for the accommodation of his horſes, hay,&c. neceſlary for the ſpring ſeedin ng, on the new tenant entering upon his farm

Upon the eſtate of that intelligent landlord, Mr. Bayley, of Hope,whenever a tenant wiſhes for the whole of his farm. or any particular field, to be improved, by draining, marling, limincg, dunging, or laying down to graſs in a ſuperior manner, the landlord takes the field into his own poſſeſſion, during the pro- cels; and, when co! E returns it again to the tenant, with an advanced rent of ten der cent. upon the capital laid out upon the improvements; by which A Mr. E has advanced the rental of bis eftate, ſince the year 17068, very conſiderably—his

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county. At any ratc e it 18 wrong to prevent the tenants from making trials, and fili more 6 to prevent them making one of the firſt of AgTI- cultural) Kent. This covenant, to the of a Kentiſh farmer, ſeems the moft extra- ordinai y that can be. Tt Sn by them ſuppoſed to be almoſt the beſt pre- paration that can be for wl Nothing can juſtify it, but inattention to the bean crop, by is 1n too foul a ſtate to be ſown: but it muſt be foul indeed, if a Kentiſh 1er could not find, ways to clear it properly tor wheat.“ No man can be ſurprized that corn 1s ſo dear in this

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county, when he knows that ſuch covenants are to be and in leaſes. Mr. DoE of Kent.

*# The cuſtom of the off-soing tenant ta ES three-fourths of the wheat

left growing on the premiſes 1s much upon the decline in this diſtrict, for Lt 1s generally allowed but one half; and many leaſe not to leave any at

all. I myſelf, for one, am not to leave any grewine. Mr, Harper.

tenants

- land, and turf- E— Mr. Boys,‘of