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thought by fome too unimportant to be 

 treated of in ^chapters by themfelves. 



I. The number of acres in a farm is a 

 very material 1 point; I mean, whether the 

 fpecified number be conjectured or aflured. 

 In fome leafes, in the recital of the acres, 

 it is common to add more or lefs ; in others, 

 the number is aflured, and the rent ftated 

 per acre. The latter is much the faireft, 

 and moft fatisfactory way ; for, in a long 

 courfe of years, with the variations of fur- 

 veys, the changes of lands, and the alte- 

 rations of fields, miflakes very often creep 

 into furveys ; and, upon trial, it has been 

 found there has been a much lefs quantity 

 of land than mentioned in the leafe. For 

 this reafon, it is but prudent in the farmer 

 to view the fields attentively, and to mea- 

 fure thofe which appear to the eye to be the 

 imalleft meafure; that is if the landlord 

 infifts upon the farm being let for fuch a 

 number of acres, more or I fs. 



II. When a farm is fituated contiguous, 

 or near to the manfion-houfe of the land- 

 lord, it is not an uncuftomary covenant, for 

 the tenant to engage to do a given quantity 

 of carting for the landlord every year. 



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