TENURE. 17 



ber. Even the altitudes above sea level are 

 given in figures at comparatively short intervals. 

 Being on so large a scale, too, it is much easier 

 to read, and less crowded than the smaller scale 

 maps. 



Of course the term for which the water is to Length of 

 be let must be distinctly specified. Land agents agreement, 

 often advise their principals to let fishing from 

 year to year, and, although this advice may be 

 given in all good faith, yet the lessor should re- 

 member that the agent's commission is usually 

 payable on each letting, so that, if he can succeed 

 in reletting to the same tenant, or finding a new 

 one each year, he will earn a commission each 

 year instead of receiving his percentage on the 

 rent of the first year of the term only. Some- 

 times this is avoided by making the agreement 

 what the lawyers call a continuing one — that is 

 going on from year to year unless one of the 

 parties gives the other due notice of his intention 

 to determine the agreement. In respect to this 

 plan of letting water for a single season only, 

 the advantages to the lessor are that he need 

 not retain a disagreeable or undesirable tenant 

 longer than a single season. Also that, if he 

 thinks the rent insufficient, he can give his 

 tenant the option of giving up the water or 

 paying an increased rental if he wishes to con- 

 tinue. Certainly, too, he is retaining in his own 



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