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implies unpardonable management. On a 

 larore eftate the days of audit lliould be a% 

 fixt and invariable as the days of entrance 

 and removal j and nothing but extraordi- 

 pary circumftances can warrant a deviation. 

 Upon another eilate, ftili more confiderable 

 than that above alluded to, the pracftice is to 

 receive a few days after the rents become due ; 

 namely, about Ladyday and Michaelmas. 

 Worfc feafons would be difficult to fix upon ; 

 and the practice is the lefs excufable, as it is 

 founded on the principle of narrow econo- 

 piy, not on that of neceflity. 



With refpeft to the mode of receiving, it 1% 

 here reduced to the lowefl degree of limpli- 

 city. The tenants not only repair and fence, 

 but pay the land tax of their refped:ivc 

 farms, which they rent at a <ftjm certain, 

 fubjedt to no dedudiion •, confequently there 

 are no accounts to be fettled, nor any voucher 

 to be examined. 



On thefe fimple principles of manage- 

 ment, even the bufmefs of receiving (the 

 almoft only bufinefs on an eflate thus ma- 

 naged) is made light ; and little time being 



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