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interest at 4 per cent.). This perpetual rent 

 amounts to 17 17s. yearly. 



When the company wound up and the land was 

 put up to auction in 1899, this lot is described in 

 the catalogue as follows : 



' . . . The company's interest in the freehold 

 land and cottage,' etc., ' under certain contracts 

 with W. A. Atkinson, under which he has been 

 let into possession, paying an annual sum of 

 17 17s., and has the right on payment of 

 595 Os. 6d., in manner mentioned in the said 

 contracts, to have the property conveyed to him in 

 fee simple.' 



At this sale the lot was bought by W. A. Atkin- 

 son himself for a sum considerably less than the 

 above figure. 



The other 44 acres, which remained on the 

 company's hands after the sale to W. A. Atkinson, 

 were let to eighteen # tenants, in lots varying from 

 1 to 5 acres, at a rental of from 2 5s. to 2 14s. 

 an acre. The company paid rates and taxes. The 

 tenancy was yearly, subject to six months' notice ; 

 the rents were paid annually. 



Of the cottages built in 1888, one was let, with 

 3 acres, for 13 to a man who also held 3 acres of 

 the company's other land at Histon. 



The other cottage, to which a dairy, cowshed, 



stable, and fowl-house had been added, was let, in 



1892, with 3f acres, to a tenant at 15 for the first 



two years and 20 for the third year. The first 



* This was the number in 1892. 



