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away the same on similar payment. The right to straighten 

 marches, or to excamb with neighbouring proprietors, is to be 

 reserved to the proprietor. 



" 5. The lands are to be let at a yearly annual rent in money, 

 one-half thereof payable at the term of Martinmas, in the year 

 during which the crop is reaped, and one-half thereof at the 

 Whitsunday following. 



" 6. Offerers for the farms must state in their offers the ex- 

 tent of repairs or additions they may require for existing houses, 

 and on new farms where houses are to be provided, the extent of 

 accommodation required, and also the fences desired to be built. 

 Arrangements will be made for supplying the accommodation 

 and fences agreed on in each case, and the tenant is to perform all 

 carriage required in connection therewith. Certain roads are to 

 be made by the proprietor for the accommodation of the farms, 

 and the tenants are also to perform all carriages in connection 

 therewith, and all farm and service roads on the property are to 

 be upheld by the tenants in good repair during their leases, and 

 so left at the expiry thereof. Drainage money will be provided 

 for such tenants as may not wish to drain at their own expense, 

 on which money they are to pay the drainage rent charge along 

 with, and under the same conditions, as the rent. All lands 

 capable of being brought into profitable cultivation are to be im- 

 proved by the tenant within the first seven years of the leases. 



*' 7. AH houses are to be insured by the proprietor, the tenant 

 paying one-half of the premiums along with his rent for the 

 year. All houses and fences built, repaired, or added to, or to 

 be built, repaired, or added to during the lease, are to be kept in 

 good condition and repair by the tenants during the currency of 

 the leases, and so left at the expiry thereof. 



" 8. The tenant is to labour, cultivate, and manure the lands 

 according to the rules of good husbandry, and to leave them in 

 good order and condition at the end of the lease, and, in particu- 

 lar, not to have more than one-half of the arable land under 

 white grain crop in any one year ; and at the term of Whitsun- 

 day of removal from the houses and pasture, he is also to give 

 over to the landlord or incoming tenant not less than one-sixth 

 of the arable land in fallow for green crop once ploughed, not 

 less than one-sixth in first year's grass, sown the previous year 

 with the grain crop after turnips, and not less than one-sixth in 

 second year's grass, also sown with grain crop after turnips, for 

 which he shall be paid, as fallow and grass respectively, accord- 

 ing to the valuation of neutral men mutually chosen. The land- 

 lord or incoming tenant to have liberty to sow grass seeds with 

 the part of the waygoing crop which is after turnips, and which 

 seeds are to be harrowed in by the waygoing tenant. The dung 

 and straw are to be consumed on the, farm, and what remains 



