i906.] 



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.condition should be introduced, and a special nomenclature pre- 

 pared for the use of arbitrators throughout the country. At 

 .any time during the currency of a lease or tenancy it should 

 be in the power of either party to have an intermediate or 

 interim report drawn up by the district arbitrator or some duly 

 appointed official. Such interim report should be after the 

 similitude of the originating schedule, and so framed as to 

 become a registered document of service and assistance to the 

 official arbitrator when adjudicating upon claims for com- 

 pensation at the end of the tenancy. Guided and instructed by 

 the originating and concluding schedules, and further assisted 

 by any interim reports which may have been obtained, the arbi- 

 trator could soon discover whether and to what extent during 

 the currency of his tenancy the outgoing tenant had improved 

 or deteriorated his holding. 



" Compensation should be given to the tenant who has 

 improved the condition of his farm, or to the landlord whose 

 property has been deteriorated according to the evidence of 

 the schedules. 



" With respect to unexhausted manures, compensation to the 

 outgoing tenant would form a separate and distinct part of the 

 award, and would be governed by scales fixed and arranged 

 from time to time by the boards of assessors in conjunction 

 with the official arbitrator." 



The Committee have accordingly prepared a draft form of 

 Record, which it is suggested should give particulars, field by 

 field, of the crops for the preceding three years, description of 

 soil, area, cultivation, tilth, cleanliness, manurial condition, condi- 

 tion of farm roads, fences and ditches, depth and distance apart 

 of drain, bore of tile, condition of outlets, and general effective- 

 ness. It should also contain a general statement as to the condi- 

 tion of fences, ditches, dykes, and gates immediately anterior 

 to the commencement of the tenancy ; of the sums spent in 

 previous years in artificial foods and manures ; and of the straw 

 or green crops sold off" the premises. 



The Norfolk Tenant Right Valuers' Association stated that 

 there would be no difficulty in carrying out the suggestion, pro- 

 vided landlords and tenants agreed to instruct valuers in writing 

 to make such a Record, but the same must be in the form of a 



