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common, according to the rent they pay j but, let the 

 obligation, or the mode of performing this bufmeis, be 

 as it may, it is always attended to with the greateft re- 

 luftance. The fooner this feudal relick is abolifhed, the 

 better it will be found for all thofe concerned ; though 

 I am not without apprehenfion, that many of my 

 readers will not join me in opinion. 



Inftead of filling up leafes with poor infignificant 

 claufes, which anfwer no fubftantial end, fome good far 

 lutary claufes might be introduced ; fuch as binding the 

 tenant, under a fevere penalty, to drain, enclofe, lime, 

 marie, &c.; alfo, to attend to certain courfes of green 

 and white crops. Such are the claufes, by which both 

 parties would foon find benefit ; and with which, on a 

 certainty of reafonable leafes, tenants would chcarf ully 

 comply. 



SECT. 5. Taxes or CeJ/es paid by Tenants. 



THE taxes are; cefles for the fupport of roads, 

 bridges, &c. The cefs for roads is laid on the barony, 

 to which they belong , other cefles on the county at 

 large. Though thofe taxes are fometimes confidered 

 a grievance, yet, in general, they are paid more chear- 

 fully than any other fpecies of tax, both on account 

 of the benefits the public derive from roads and 

 bridges, and alfo the advantage the circulation and re- 

 turn of money is to the tenantry of eltates, who are 



always 



