174 The Agricultural Holdings (^England) Act, 1875. 
4. Planting trees. 
5. Opening or working any coal, ironstone, limestone, or 
other mineral ; or a stone quarry, clay, sand, or gravel-pit ; or 
constructing any works or buildings to be used in connection 
therewith. 
6. Obtaining brick-earth, gravel, or sand. 
7. Making a watercourse or reservoir. 
8. Making any road, tramroadj siding, canal, or basin, or 
any wharf, pier, or other work connected therewith. 
In the notice to quit, the landlord must state that he requires 
the land with a view to use it for one of these purposes. If the 
tenant thinks that the loss of such part of the land as is covered 
by the notice depreciates the value of the remainder so greatly 
as to render the continued occupation of the whole undesirable, 
he will be able to put an end to his tenancy summarily, by 
serving the landlord with a written notice that he accepts the 
notice served on him as notice to quit the entire holding. Such 
counter-notice by the tenant must be served within a month 
after service of the landlord's notice, and its effect will be to 
determine the tenancy at the expiration of the then current year. 
If the tenant relinquishes the entire holding, his claim to 
compensation arises and must be made in the usual way under 
the Act. If he accepts the situation, and relinquishes only the 
portion of land required by the landlord, the provisions of 
the Act respecting compensation apply to such portion just as 
if the tenancy of the whole were determined. He may claim, in 
respect of the land thus resumed by the landlord : — 
(a.) The value of any unexhausted improvements made upon 
it by him. 
(&.) A proportionate reduction of rent in respect of it. (This 
seems to mean a reduction based upon the average rent of the 
holding, and proportioned to the acreage of the land resumed. 
If the land is specially fertile, or otherwise of exceptional agri- 
cultural value, compensation may arise under the words in italics 
in the next head.) * 
(c.) Reduction of rent representing any depreciation of the 
value of the residue of the holding to the tenant, caused by the 
loithdrawal of the particular land from the holding, or by the 
use to be made thereof. 
Some of the uses contemplated in the section would certainly 
justify a claim under the head last mentioned. It is of public 
advantage that the landlord should have an easy mode of re- 
suming land which he intends to apply to useful and beneficial 
purposes, industrial and otherwise ; and the interests of the 
tenant have been fairly considered. There appears, indeed, to 
