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proprietor at this time resumes the farm, he 

 shall become bound to pay to the tenant TEN 

 years purchase of the additional rent he had a- 

 greed to pay ; which in the example above stat- 

 ed would be 200 1. 



" But the land may be worth still more than 

 the 20 1. of rise mentioned in the lease, and the 

 tenant may be content to pay more, say 10 1., 

 rather than remove, ; and he makes offer accor- 

 dingy to do so. In that case the landlord should 

 be bound either to accept that additional offer, 

 or to pay ten years purchase of that also ; and 

 so on for every other offer the tenant shall make 

 before he agrees to remove from the farm. 



" In this way, the landlord is always certain 

 that he can never be precluded from obtaining 

 the FULL value for his land, whatever circum- 

 stances may arise. And if the tenant shall prove 

 disagreeable, so that he would wish rather to put 

 another in his place upon the same terms, it ne- 

 ver can be any hardship upon the landlord to 

 pay the stipulated sum ; because it would be the 

 same thing to him as if he bought a new estate 

 at TEN year's purchase, free of taxes: a thing 

 he never can expect to do. It is indeed true, 

 that it would be more advantageous for* him to 

 allow the present tenant to continue : and there- 

 fore this alternative will be always, unless in ve- 

 ry extraordinary cases, accepted of, as it ever 

 ought to be ; and thus the tenant's mind is im- 

 pressed with a< conviction that he will continue 

 in his possession ; a conviction that ought ever 

 to prevail, because it stimulates to industry in 

 the highest degree. 



