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enclofing, liming, or carrying into execution any per- 

 manent improvements, as long as this fyftem exifts, 

 fince none of the party have any divifion, which may 

 be properly called their own. If one perfon fhould 

 be difpofed to improve, another, or perhaps the whole 

 party, may be averfe to it, and thus the bufinefs of 

 improving the farm is dropped altogether. 



Among the many claufes in leafes, one to oblige 

 tenants to divide their farms mufl certainly be of ufe. 

 I believe there is a law in exiflence, with refpeft to 

 mearings, which backs an aftive tenant, if he mould 

 be difpofed to make up his part of the mearing, though 

 his neighbours fhould be againft it. I fee no reafon, 

 why an aftive, enterprifing man, who may be con- 

 cerned in the run-deal fyftem, fhould not have the 

 law to fupport him, as that relative to mearings. 



Wherever divifions have taken place among tenants 

 occupying fuch tradls, improvements are very confpi- 

 cuoufly gaining ground, and efpecially in cafes of long 

 leafes, or when the tenant has an aflurance, that his 

 land will be let to him again, at a reafonable rent, at 

 the expiration of his leafe. 



The low lands of the eftates of Newtown-ftewart 

 and Aughentaine, the property of Lord Mountjoy, are 

 in general well divided, and in many parts well planted 

 with thorn quicks, and timber trees. Farms vary in 



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