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*' fituation or other caufes, fhould think propper to mark for 

 *' refervation. He fhould alfo have permiflion to fell fuch 

 <♦ trees as he enclined, unlefs as above referved, or during 

 ** the lad fix years of any of the twenty-one years of the leafe. 

 *« But in cafe of his removal, the proprietor ihould either 

 ** permit him to fell the whole trees that was over the va- 

 *' lue of the flock at his entry, or take the whole, or fuch' 

 ** part as he chofe to referve, at an appreciated value. In 

 " cafe of his removal alfo, the tenant fhould be bound not 

 *' to out-labour the ground during the laft fix years of the 

 '♦ leafe, or to crop it improperly, or to carry off any flraw 

 " or dung : otherwife to pay the damages that fhould thus 

 " accrue to the landlord at the eftimate of two honeft men 

 •* to be mutually ^chofen : and to leave the houfes in a ha- 

 " bitable condition, and the fences in good repair. There 

 " feems to be no other claufe neceffary in fuch a leafe. 



•• Farm buildings, Sec. With regard to ordinary leafes for 

 <• nineteen or twenty-one years ; one of the greateft incon- 

 *« veniencies to which tenants in Scotland at prefent are fub- 

 *' je6led with regard to thefe is what refpeds houfes. The 

 " houfes are for the moft part very poor; and many pro- 

 *' prietors throw too great a burthen upon the tenants. 

 •' This is highly impolitic. Nothing contributes more to 

 *' the content and conveniency of a farmer than good and 

 " well difpofed buildings. It elevates his mind ; gives him 

 «« fpirit to purfue his operations with alacrity; and contri- 

 ♦• butes in many inftances to augment his profits. On thefe 

 " accounts he ought to have them.'^ But on no account 

 •* fhould he be induced to expend that ftock upon building 

 " houfes which fhould be employed in extending his own 

 ** proper bufinefs ; it ought always to be done by the land- 

 «* lord ; and in general, a good fet of houfes upon a fariu 

 *« will bring a much greater additional rent than the intereft 



'« of 

 * «« I never yet faw a thriving tenant who had not neat houfes; 



