CONTRACTS FOR TAKING MOORS OR MANORS. 3G7 



morrow, it follows that there must be a "give and take" 

 system continually going on, and if the adjacent lands take 

 all they can and give none in return, the effect is felt in the 

 course of the year. But moors require special circumstances 

 to be examined into. There is a necessity for a certain, 

 amount of old heather to protect the birds, not only at the 

 breeding season but all through the year, and if this is not 

 in existence the moor cannot be a good one for a number of 

 years, as the heather takes seven years to attain its full 

 growth. But, supposing that there is a good crop- of old 

 heather left, provision must be made that it shall not be 

 burnt in too great a quantity annually. A certain extent 

 of burning is desirable, but all that is destroyed beyond a 

 seventh or eighth of the whole area tends to the reduction 

 of the desirable extent. These points, therefore, must be 

 carefully looked to, and the lease so arranged that an ex- 

 cessive burning will vitiate it, or be met by the payment of 

 a penalty on the part of the landlord. 



CONTRACTS FOR TAKING MOORS OR MANORS. 



In all contracts for taking manors or moors the agreement 

 ought to be in writing, and properly executed on a stamped 

 paper. The following form has been found to answer all the 

 purposes required, and is more simple than most of those in 

 general use : 



MEMORANDUM of an agreement made this day between 



A. B. of , and C. D. of ; the said A. B. agrees to 



let the said C. D. (without power of sub-letting or assigning) 

 the whole of the game on the lands, farms, or moors in the 



parish of , from this present date to the of ; 



that is to say, that he, the said C. D., shall have full power 

 by himself, or others having his authority, to kill game over 

 the above-named lands, during all lawful times and seasons. 

 And in consideration of the same permission of A. B., the 



said C. D. agrees to pay the sum of on the 25th day of 



January in each year; but the first payment to be made at 

 the signing of these presents. And the said C. D. further 

 agrees that he will preserve the game in a fair and proper 

 manner, and that he will not destroy, in the last year of his 



