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With refpeSl to leafes, there is but little room for cotif^ 

 plaint in this county, as the farms in general are held under 

 running leafes for three feven years, which are virtually and 

 in fad leafes for twenty-one years ; hence the general 

 fpirit, and coflly improvements of ^the Eflex farmer, ftand 

 unrivalled in any part of the kingdom. 



In the agricultural furvey of Aberdeenfliire, a plan of a 

 leafe by the late Lord Kaims is noticed, which, with 

 Dr. Anderfon's additions, is made by that gentleman to em- 

 brace every thing neceifary on that fcore, to further the im- 

 provement of the country; at the fame time mutually and 

 equally to conferve the intereft of the landlord and the tenant. 

 The fcheme, which is certainly the offspring of ingenuity, 

 combined with the produce of a great deal of thought, is as 

 follows : 



" I am extremely happy to have it in my power on this 

 '• occafion to lay before the public at large, through means 

 " of the honourable board to whom this report is addreffed, 

 " a plan of a leafe which is perfedlly adapted to fecure a 

 *' like intereft of the tenant and the legitimate rights 

 ** of the landlord ; by which the rights of humanity can 

 " never be violated, and which can apply to all poffible 

 ** cafes, fo that neither of the parties can ever acquire an 

 •' undue advantage over the other in any fituation of 

 ** things. To effedl all thefe things appeared to me for a 

 ** great many years to exceed the powers of human inge- 

 *• nuity to devife. It has been done ; and the public are 

 *• obliged to the late Lord Kaims for this excellent de- 

 *' vice. 



** His lordrtiip propofed that the leafe fhould extend to 

 ** an indefinite number of years, confifting of fixed periods, 

 ** at the end of each which a rife of rent fhould take 



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