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without consent, for improvements certified to be really 

 necessary for working the farm to advantage. 



Mr Speir approves of notice, and that the landlord, 

 where possible, should himself carry out improvements. 

 " He does it in such a way that the estate should benefit 

 as a whole ; whereas the tenants would only do it, if 

 they did it themselves, to benefit their own time." 



Mr Fyshe would abolish all schedules and put all 

 improvements on the same footing, and pay for added 

 value in every case, except that as regards buildings, if 

 the landlord withheld consent, a decision .should be 

 taken as to whether they are necessary for the farm. 

 " If not found necessary, they should not be paid for." 



Mr Elliot would merge Part I in Part II, or else get 

 rid of them altogether. 



A committee of factors and tenant farmers agreed 

 (with two dissentients) that, if the landlord's consent 

 was withheld, the improvement might be carried out 

 and paid for, if, previous to its execution, a reference 

 determined that the improvement was necessary to the 

 efficient working of the holding. 



The Scottish Chamber of Agriculture, to cover the 

 cases where landlords will not carry out or consent to 

 improvements, recommend that the tenant should call 

 in a qualified arbitrator, and that compensation should 

 be given for such improvements as are certified to be 

 necessary for the proper working of the farm, having 

 regard to the purpose for which it was let. 



In the North of England as in Scotland the procedure 

 of the drainage clause is approved. 



Mr Scott adopted this procedure in the Northumber- 

 land scheme of compensation, the owner to have the 

 right on receiving notice to get a prohibition, if the 

 improvement was found on a reference to be unsuitable. 

 But, among English and Welsh witnesses, the simple 

 and more direct method of giving the tenant freedom to 

 make what improvements seem to him desirable and 

 likely to give him a chance of profit, and the right to 

 compensation for their remaining value, has vigorous ex- 

 ponents. 



