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Heads of Lease for Richard Peters’s Belmont Farm. 
Read 14th, August 1810. 
Dear Sir, 
Being frequently called on for my lease, by those who. 
wish to let farms on shares, I thought it would conduce 
to the information of all who were desirous to make 
such leases, to send to the society the heads of my lease. 
If they think proper, the enclosed may be published 
with our memoirs. 
One tenant, on my Bull farm, has lived 15 or 16 
years, under the terms stated in these heads or extracts. 
He has brought up reputably a large family ; and has 
got much before hand, according to the country phrase- 
ology. Several tenants, on my Belmont estate, have 
lived five, six, and seven years, under this lease; and 
all have thriven. I have not been rigorous in enforcing 
my priveleges; or holding them very strictly to all 
parts of their contract. But I am satisfied that I have 
done myself none, and them little good, by this laxity. 
Small objects may be neglected ; but every tenant is 
the better and more exact and regular, by being kept © 
to his agreement, Relaxations, from motives of libe- 
rality, may be occasionally granted, But I have found 
in all instances, that though at first accepted as favours, 
they are claimed thereafter as rights. ‘There must how- 
ever, be confidence and liberality on both sides; or 
such a lease will be a source of constant, and vexatious 
~altercation. 
Belmont, June 11th, 1810. 
