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ward, can be fufficient to attend to every accident 

 that happens, upon a large eftate, it feems efTen- 

 tiallv neceffary, that the tenant ought, Come how, 

 to be interefted in the prefervation of the build- 

 ings, as well as the landlord, becaufe, as he is al- 

 ways on the Cpot, he can remedy a breach at the 

 expence of a milling, by making it in time, which 

 will coft the landlord a guinea, by being neglected. 

 He too, vjy being on the fpot, can better attend to 

 the workmen, to fee that they do not idle away 

 their time, when they work by the day. 



This obvious inconvenience I have, in a great 

 meafure, remedied upon the ellates under my 

 care, in this county, by obliging the tenants to be 

 at one-half of all the expences of workmen's 

 wages, not exceeding three per cent, however, to 

 tneir (hare upon the rents ; this, with three per 

 cent, more from the landlord, and the allowance 

 of the materials, befides, after buildings are once 

 put into good repair, will, in general, be fuflicient 

 to keep them fo. 



The advantage refulting from this, does not 

 merely confift in the faving of the three per cent, 

 but the tenant, by this means, becomes interefted 

 in the prefervation of the buildings; and by that 

 means the adage is verified, of a stitch in time, 

 &c. 



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