TENANCY AGREEMENTS G3 



be so drawn that it runs for one year, and thereafter from 

 year to year until 12 months' notice to terminate it has been 

 given by either party. Provided there be no actual interval 

 exceeding three months in the occupation of the land the 

 tenancy thus held from year to year on one agreement is to 

 be considered continuous, and compensation for improvements 

 made by the tenant will be deemed to be due although made 

 during any year of such continuous occupation. 



As has been pointed out in the preceding chapter, English 

 tenancy agreements contain elaborate provisions for securing 

 the proper cultivation of the holding and for preventing the 

 exhaustion of the soil. It is probably too early to do 

 much in this direction in India as yet ; but it should be 

 practicable for landlords in some districts to insert a provision 

 in the agreement requiring the tenant to follow a certain 

 rotation of crops and to apply green manure to the holding, 

 a penalty of enhanced rent being inserted if this be not done. 

 Landlords would soon find that they could only exercise com- 

 pulsion in this matter where the manuring when properly 

 done actually proves generally beneficial to the cultivation, 

 and the tenant would not object to this provision if he in- 

 tended remaining in occupation of his holding. I think a 

 little compulsion of this kind would be very useful in teach- 

 ing cultivators the better management of the soil.* 

 fcjftects of the Yearly /Tenancy System 



For the purpose of gaining a clear comprehension of my 

 proposals it is now necessary to consider what would be the 

 economic effects, if the system of yearly tenancies which I 

 have just outlined were to 'be made applicable to all land. 

 Let us assume for a moment something which I am 



' Obviously provisions for manuring need not usually be enforced in 

 the gohan or gojnd land ; though ultimately the present advantage of the 

 gohan might diminish through a better distribution of the available manure 

 and water over tbe whole of the village laud. 



