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to pay as compensation the capital sum upon which 



the increase of rent would be the interest (2.) It 



would enable the landlord to put a stop to spoliation and 

 deterioration. A second report may be obtained as 

 soon as improper farming is observed, and the landlord 

 will thus get rid of a bad tenant, and get his compensa- 

 tion for deterioration, as decided by the first and last 

 schedules, before the tenant has lost everything." 



In Scotland, Mr Hope reports a general desire for the 

 protection both of landlord and tenant, to preserve 

 evidence as to the condition of the farm at entry. The 

 farm should be inspected by the official valuator and 

 his report deposited for reference. In this way com- 

 pensation for "cumulative fertility" and for thorough 

 cleansing of a farm could be equitably determined. 



Mr Davidson thinks the particulars of the claim of the 

 outgoing tenant would be better than any record. 



Mr Guild, however, considers the principle essential as 

 a measure of the rights of the parties, and recommends 

 that the record should be kept by the Board of Agricul- 

 ture. 



Mr Riddell thinks a schedule of condition absolutely 

 necessary to rightly establish the tenant's claim for in- 

 creased fertility and condition. 



Mr Speir and other witnesses, on the other hand, point 

 out that another valuer twenty years afterwards can 

 hardly be expected to interpret the schedule exactly in 

 the same sense as the man w^ho drew it. 



Mr Hutcheson (Perthshire) thinks that, in practice, 

 the system would lead to complications and difficulties 

 in settlement 



Mr Forster (Northumberland) takes a similar view. 



Mr Punchard thinks the proposal unworkable. You 

 could not in general have the same man again. 



While it is difficult to assent to the view that such 

 records could be exactly appraised in money equivalents, 

 so that the later of two records would enable an arbitrator 

 to determine with any nicety how much should be paid 

 by the one party to the other at the winding up of the 

 tenancy, this system certainly should be encouraged 



