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There is nothing to be impeached in fuch an 

 agreement, but it ought to be carried, like 

 all the reft, to account, and valued as fo 

 much rent; and this remark is applicable 

 to all other kinds of covenants, which con- 

 tain an agreement to pay or perform any 

 fum of money or fervice. 



III. Some landlords will not grant leafes 

 at all ; others for only 3 or 7 years : This 

 is a matter of fmall confequence to thofe 

 tenants who purpofe conducting their farm 

 In a flovenly negligent manner, never to 

 expend any thing beyond abfolute necef- 

 iities, and always to get from the land the 

 utmoll. To Jitch, thefe maxims are very 

 indifferent; for let them leave the farm 

 when they will, they can lofe nothing by 

 former expences, the land never owing 

 them any thing ; but the cafe is furely 

 different with a man who defigns to expend 

 confiderable fums of money in bringing the 

 land into perfect order ; a three, or a feven 

 years leafe, is to him much the fame as 

 none at all ; and he would be an egregious 

 fool, to difpofe of his money upon any fuch 

 uncertainties. If a man really means to be 

 a good farmer, it can never anfwer to him 



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