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fuch cafes, a different crop to that which has been 

 fown in rotation and has miffed, fhould intervene, 

 and the choice of the intervening crop be left to him- 

 felf. This choice may not meet the approbation of 

 all parties, but it will fhorten the exceptions thus 

 rendered neceffary to the covenants in a leafe, and 

 the land will not be fuffered to run to weeds, the 

 worfl: of all poffible crops, while the landlord and 

 tenant are fettling punftilios. 



The tenant will continue a judicious and profitable 

 courfe of hufbandry, as long as the returns are in- 

 fured to himfelf ; but towards the laft years of his 

 term he will relax, if an adequate reward be not held 

 out to infure his perfeverance ; and if that reward be 

 nearly equal to any advantage he could reap by 

 purfuing a lefs praife-worthy condudl, the injury to 

 the public k would be avoided, the fucceeding tenant 

 would cheerfully difburfe that reward, increafe the 

 rent of the farm, if really worth an increafe, and 

 take the flock, 8cc. as between in-coming and out- 

 going tenants, at a fair value ; and at the end of his 

 term would again relinquifli on the fame conditions. 



All lawful compa(5is between man and man may 

 be made certain, and to lafl for the time agreed on, 

 provided the contracting parties are competent. On 

 this principle a farmer beftows his property and time 

 in the cultivation of the eflate of his landlord, who, 

 for certain confiderations, has, by a valid agreement, 

 delegated all his powers to his tenant, excepting 



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