TENURE. 



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raise or lower level of water to enable him to 

 carry out any work required in the interests of 

 the property. 



The lessee's covenants should follow : To pay 

 rent, keep a good stock of fish and leave the 

 same at expiration of tenancy, to keep houses or 

 cottages in repair (if this is one of the lessee's 

 obligations), to cut and clear away weeds, to 

 make good any damage occurring to other 

 tenants' land caused by negligence or wilful act 

 on the part of the lessee or his keepers, and not 

 to underlet or assign without assent of lessor, 

 such assent not to be withheld without just and 

 reasonable cause. The lessee should undertake 

 to provide keeper or keepers, to prevent poaching, 

 to fish in a fair and sportsmanlike manner with 

 rod and line only (except in the case of pike, 

 eels, or other coarse fish), to make proper rules 

 for the regulation of the fishery, such rules to be 

 applicable to himself and his friends, and to 

 specify any limits of size or number of Salmonidce 

 to be killed in one day, as well as the seasons 

 during which they can be taken. 



The lessor's covenants should set forth that 

 he should pay all rates. This is a moot point, 

 and one that sometimes leads to long discussion. 

 It is, however, desirable that the rent should 

 be fixed at a figure sufficiently high to warrant 

 the lessor in doing so. If the lessee has to 



Lessee's 

 covenants. 



Lessor's 

 covenants. 



