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<' of the money expended upon tliem. If then a farmer 

 " pofieffing a farm, or bargaining for one, wifhes to have 

 ** houfes, thefe Iheuld be built by the landlord in a good 

 *' fubftantial manner, on a plan fuggefted, or at leaft ap- 

 '* proved by the tenant. The tenant furnilliing carriages 

 " and paying at the rate of five per cent, for the money fo 

 *' expended ; becoming bound to uphold the houfes in good 

 " repair, during the currency of the leafe ; and to deliver 

 " houfes to the value at leaft of the money expended by 

 ** the landlord J taking the tenant bound likewife to pay, 

 *f along with his rent annually, the premium pf infurance 

 *' for the value of the houfes againft loffes by fire. 

 '* Any other reftri^lions are unnecelfary even in this cafe 

 •* than thofe above fpecified refpe£ling the laft years of the 

 ** leafe. 



•' Draining, trenching, and other expenfive operations 

 ** on a farm that continue to be permanent improvements 

 " ought alfo to be done by the proprietor; the tenant who 

 *? defires thefe to be done, agreeing to pay the proprietor 

 " during the currency of his leafe, by way of additional 

 •♦ rent, at the rate of five per cent, on the money thus expend- 

 •• ed under his own eye, and in the mode approved of by 

 ♦' the proprietor. In this way he would be making con- 

 " tinual additions to his eftate, at the rate of twenty 

 *' years purchafe, free of taxes ; and as the tenant would 

 '* thus alfo be enriched, he would be enabled to adopt other 

 <' fpirited modes of iinprovement, which would render 

 ** it (till more valuable j fo that if the plan of a leafe 

 ** here explained were adopted, he v/ould in many cafes be 

 *' enabled to draw at the end of each fixed period inftead 

 '< of five, perhaps twenty-five per cent, for the money fo 

 «< advanced. By making improvements fomewhat on this 

 «' plan, for the behoof of his tenants, Mr. Bayly, of Hope, 

 ** near Manchcfter, has advanced the rent of his efiate in 



" little 



