170 TJie Agricultural Holdings {England) Act, 1875. 
whicli can be awarded under the Act. " Duration " of the charge 
clearly points to the period found by the award, limited by the 
maximum periods specified in the compensation sections, and 
mentioned by reference in § 42, sub-sect. 2. The duration of the 
charge in respect of improvements executed under a lease or agree- 
ment must not, then, exceed the periods of exhaustion assigned 
to them in the award or in the Act respectively. Lastly, the charge 
must not be " different in nature," as well as duration, from the 
charge which might have been made on the holding under the 
Act in the absence of an agreement ; that is, we may assume, the 
improvements in respect of which the charge is created must not 
differ in their nature from the improvements specified in the Act. 
Having obtained from the County Court a charge on the land 
in his favour, the landlord, if it is not convenient to him to pay the 
money out of his own pocket, may assign this charge as security 
for money lent ; and any incorporated Land Improvement Com- 
panies are empowered to take such assignment as security for 
advances by them, and may in their turn assign the charge to 
third parties (§ 43). 
Ckowx and Duchy Lands. 
The Act applies to, (1) lands belonging to the Queen in 
right of the Crown, and (2 j in right of the Duchv of Lancaster : 
and, also, (3) to land belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall. The 
*' landlord " representing Her Majesty in respect of (1) Crown 
lands will be deemed for the purposes of the Act to be the Com- 
missioners of Woods, Forests, or Land Revenues, or one of them, 
or the proper officer or body having charge of such land for the 
time being, or some person appointed under the sign manual. 
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for the time being 
will be deemed the landlord of lands (2) ; and (3) such person 
as may be appointed by the Duke of Cornwall, or the personage 
for the time entitled to the revenues and possessions of the 
Duchy of Cornwall (§§ 45—47). Tenants upon all these lands, 
if within the Act, will give notices to these substituted land- 
lords, and otherwise treat with them, as in ordinary ca^s ; and 
the appointment of referees and umpire, and the powers of the 
County Court, in the event of dispute, will in like manner be 
governed by the general provisions of the Act. Special pro- 
visions, however, are substituted for those contained in the Act 
as to the charge of tenant's compensation. 
First-class improvements executed by tenants upon (1) Crown 
lands will be deemed improvements of land within the Crown 
Lands Act, 18GG, sect. 1, and the amount of compensation will 
be charged, as this section provides, " as a principal sum to the 
account of the capital of the land revenue of the Crown," the 
