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While the advance of rent remained mo- 

 derate, verbal orders were found fufficienr. 

 But it is not probable that tenants at will 

 and at rack-rent will pay much attention to 

 the interefb of their landlords, when their 

 own intercft is no longer connefted with it. 

 It flrikcs m.e clearly that no ejiate at will can 

 be fafely rack-rented. Nothing but a legal 

 agreement fpecifying covenants, and bind- 

 ing a rcfponfible tenant, can guard againfl 

 the effe<fts of an exceffive ifent, 



VII. Removals. The time of the re- 

 moval of tenants here is, invariably, old Lady- 

 day. 



By the cuflom of this country, tenants at 

 will are allowed to clear the premifes pre- 

 vious to the day cf removal, oi hay, firavj, 

 and manure ! quitting the farm on that day, 

 and leaving it entirely naked of every thing 

 except the wheat en the ground; v;hich at 

 harveft he reaps, and carries off! paying only 

 for the '' on-ftand," or rent of the land which 

 the wheat has occupied *.* 



D 3 For- 



* Barley fown before Ladydny, on faUoii\ is alfo 

 the tenant's, paying the on-couiing tenant for the on- 

 |land only. 



