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her rural population thus situated, including 

 the small farmers and their families ; so that 

 were landlords to make a present to them of 

 their holdings (which is neither more nor less 

 than what the demand above made for employ- 

 ment requests), it would not thereby promote 

 them to that rank which they ought to occupy 

 in the British community, nor advance even 

 their incomes threepence half-penny per day, or 

 51. per annum. 



The present tenant-right system of Ulster, 

 so strenuously advocated by Mr. Crawford 

 and others, even when viewed only in its most 

 favourable light, proposes no more to the tenant 

 than the performance by the landlord of duties 

 at the expiry of his lease which he ought to 

 have discharged at its commencement. But, 

 when that period has arrived, instead of the 

 landlord putting his hand into his pocket, the 

 tenant-right is sold at the rate of some 107., 

 12/., or 201. per acre, for which investment the 

 purchaser receives at the most a fair percentage 

 for his money, but in the majority of cases no 

 interest at all. 



In the former case, the tenant is landlord 

 (so to speak) to the amount of the yearly 

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