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II. — On the Tenant's Right to unexhausted Improvements, accord- 
ing to the Custom of North Lincolnshire. By G. M. Williams, 
Agent of the Earl of Yarborough. 
To Ph. Pusey, Esq., M.P. 
Dear Sir, — Lord Worsley has forwarded to me your note of 
the 4th, and I have much pleasure in sending you the information 
you wish for as to tlie custom of this part of Lincohishire with 
regard to tenant-right, &c. 
The usual allowances in the north of Lincolnshire to outgoing 
tenants for unexhausted improvements are as follows: — 
Bone-dust. — This is considered to last for three years, and a 
tenant quitting in the spring of 1845 receives therefore two-thirds 
of the cost of what he put on in 1844 (one-third being supposed 
to be exhausted by his turnip crop), and one-third of what he put 
on in 1843, of which he has had the benefit of the other two-thirds 
in the crops of that year and of 1844. 
Precisely the same principle is adopted in the following im- 
provements, the only difference being the number of years which 
each is assumed to last, and which are as follows : — 
Marl or chalk, 7 years. 
Lime, 5 years. 
Clay, put on sandy land, 4 years, and on some estates 7 years, 
which is probably a fairer allowance. 
Draining with tiles or stone, when the tenant pays the whole 
cost, 7 years This is, however, now a rare case, the usual prac- 
tice being for the landlord to find the tiles. In this case the tenant 
has generally no allowance for putting them in if he has had a 
crop off the land, though he certainly ought to have a proportion 
of the cost, as it must often happen that the first crop will not pay 
for the labour of draining. It would probably be right to put tliis 
on the same footing as bones. 
Draining with .sods or thorns, 4 years. This allowance, I be- 
lieve, is not always made. Indeed this mode of draining is now 
not much practised. 
The tenant is also paid the cost price of the seeds sown the 
spring previous to quitting, and for the labour of sowing, &c., pro- 
vided they are not stocked alter the 1st of November, and have 
not been unfairly stocked before. 
When seeds are ploughed up for wheat the autumn previous to 
quitting, he is allowed for herbage until the end of the term ; but 
it is not usual to allow anything on ploughing up clover-stubble 
for wheat, that being considered the crop which ought to follow 
clover as a matter of course. 
For naked fallow, on strong land, he is allowed for ploughing 
and all the labour performed, but not for rent or taxes, unless he 
