COMPENSATION FOR THE SITTING TENANT 20/ 



ments, if he left, would be, to allow a proportionate 

 percentage of reduction off the rent." 



Mr Elliot thinks the sitting tenant should be com- 

 pensated either by fixing a proportionate rent, or by 

 paying in money. If this is not done at the determina- 

 tion of the tenancy, he will certainly on renewal pay 

 rent on his improvements. " Farms are valued [for a 

 new lease] at what they are considered worth at the 

 moment, without taking into consideration the tenant's 

 claim. " When the new rent is fixed, the remaining 

 value of the tenant's improvement should be determined." 



There should be a reduction from the rent proportion- 

 ate to the value of the improvements. 



Mr Elliot does not think that in practice the landlord 

 would ask a still higher rent to cover this, but he might 

 do so. 



Mr Dun doubts if you could give the sitting tenant 

 money compensation, but wishes to " arrange matters 

 so that he could take his farm again as easily as if he had 

 run down its condition ; it would be a great advantage 

 to him and to the country." 



Mr Fyshe thinks the adjustment would be easy by the 

 help of the record of condition. The rent would be 

 determined by the arbitrator according to the condition 

 of the farm, and some interest on the improved value 

 caused by the tenant should go to the tenant. 



Mr Ballingall thinks it should be arranged amicably 

 between landlord and tenant that if he has been an 

 improving tenant, and has added to the value, the land- 

 lord should make the rent cheaper on that account. 



" The official valuator would go over the land, and 

 value it in its present high state, and then consider the 

 outlays. He might say the land is i^SO better for these, 

 and therefore he takes that off his valuation, and says, 

 " That is the valuation I think you should pay." " It 

 would be the interest of the compensation the landlord 

 would have had to pay if the tenant left." 



Mr Rutherford thinks the tenant should be entitled 

 to have the value he has added, allowed to him. The 

 record of condition, the vouchers for cakes, manure, etc., 



