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**• every other offer, the tenant Oiall make before he agrees 

 •* to remove from the farm. 



" In this way the landlord is always certain, that he can 

 *' never be precluded from obtaining the full value for his 

 " land, whatever circumflances may arife. And If the tenant 

 *^ fliall prove difagreeable, fo that he would wilh rather to 

 *• put another in his place upon the fanne terms, it never 

 "'can be any hardfliip upon the landlord to pay the ftipu- 

 *♦ lated fum; becaufe it would be the fame thing to him 

 *« as if he bought a new ellate at Ten years purchafe free 

 ** of taxes : a thing he never can expe£l to do. It is indeed 

 " true, that it would be more advantageous for him to allow 

 '* the prefent tenant to continue : and therefore this alter- 

 " native will be always, unlefs in very extraordinary cafes 

 *' accepted of, as it ever ought to be; and thus the tenant's 

 *' mmd is impreiTcd with a convidlion that he will con- 

 ** tinue in his polTeflion : a convidion that ought ever to 

 <' prevail, becaufe it ftimulates to induftry in the highefl: 

 *« degree. 



*' And as the tenant is thus certain, that at the very 

 «• worft, his family mufl: be entitled to draw a reafonable 

 " remuneration for the exertions of his induftry, he can 

 ** never find the fmalleft tendency to flacken his endeavours 

 *• in any way.- 



*' By ftipulating in the original leafe in the fame manner, 

 *♦ that at the end of the fecond twenty-one years the leafe 

 ** fhall be continued for twenty-one years more; and fo on 

 ** at the end of the third, and fourth, and any farther 

 «« numbers of periods of twenty-one years, on agreeing to 

 " pay a fpecified rife of rent ; referving to each party the 

 *• fame privileges as above defcribed, the leafe might be 

 ** continued to perpetuity, without either party ever being 

 *• in danger of having an undue advantage over the other. 



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