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practice is the very reverfe: covenants are made to 

 bind them, for the fame reafon that halters are made 

 to hang rogues, but with lefs benefit to fociety. 



The honed and induftrious farmer fees and la- 

 ments the neceffity of covenants between landlord 

 and tenant, and would cheerfully comply with them, 

 provided they did not frequently, in conjunftion 

 with feafons and circumftances, which human pru- 

 dence cannot forefee, militate againfl his own and 

 the publick intereft. 



A tithe-free arable farm, of poor, light foil, or 

 any foil if out of condition, mufl be improved by 

 money, and upheld by expence and induflry j and 

 if the annual rent or value be lool. the capital of 

 the occupier fhould be 600I. at leafl, in addition 

 to a competent knowledge of his profelTion, and 

 a leafe to proteft his improvements: the fooner 

 the farm is brought into a proper ftate of cul- 

 ture, the better it is for the occupier and the pub- 

 lick. It is mofl likely, admitting no accidents inter- 

 vene, that all his ready-money may be expended 

 before the farm makes a fuitable return; in that 

 cafe, a little indulgence from a landlord, fo amply 

 fecured, may be neceffary, and fliould never be re- 

 fufed ; the tenant will not wifli to deviate from any 

 judicious courfe of hufbandry that has been pre- 

 fcribed to him, except when that courfe is deranged 

 by the immediate interpofition of providence. In 



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