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fervlces, makes an exorbitant charge, upon 

 the tenants, for their leafes ; each eftate 

 having its eilablidied impofl. 



This regulation is evidently founded on 

 fallacious principles. The intereft of the 

 agent ought ever to be conne6ted with that 

 of his principal . W hereas, by the practice 

 now under notice, as well as by that of 

 letting farms by audion, in the manner 

 which has been mentioned, they are 

 efl-ranged from each other. Inftead of its 

 being the interefl of the agent to promote 

 that good order, pun(rtuality, and fpirit of 

 improvement, which oilght to be folicitoufly 

 cherifhed on every ellate, his beft interests 

 are connecfted with the beggary and fhift- 

 ing of tenants ; and, of courfe, with the 

 confuiion and eventual injury of the eftate : 

 and this without any adequate counter 

 advantage. Farmers are not fo inatten- 

 tive to their own interefts, as to omit to 

 calculate the expence of the leafe, while 

 they are bargaining for the farm ; and it 

 is well known to thofe, who are conver- 

 fant in the bufine.fs of letting farms, that 



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