CHAPTER VI. 



A PEASANT PROPRIETARY, AND AFTER. 



The Wyndham Act will therefore on the one 

 hand transform a great portion of Irish soil 

 into peasant proprietorship; on the other, it will 

 fail to abolish the petty farms and to create a 

 class of purely economic holdings. 



The Irish agrarian laws contain very strict 

 regulations against the sub-division of the newly 

 created holdings. Since the Act of 1881, sub- 

 letting and sub-division have been forbidden.^ 

 In the case of a holding which would naturally be 

 divided up in process of inheritance, the Land 

 Commission can now have it sold for the benefit 

 of the heirs, or can nominate an heir.- Sub-letting 

 is also forbidden, only a letting for a short term 

 (con-acre) being permitted. Indebtedness is also 

 provided against. Without permission from the 

 Land Commission no tenant may mortgage his 

 holding for more than ten times the amount of 



^ When a farm which is under a judicial rent has to be 

 divided in the Hfetime of the occupier, the Land Commission 

 can order it to be sold. 



^Section 54 (i). When an heir is nominated, the pro- 

 perty is of course charged for the other parties interested. 



