6 The Agricultural Holdings {England) Act, 1883. 
abandoned in recent legislation, and the first words of the 
new statute are a response from Parliament to the farmer's 
call for aid. The general rights of tenants for compensation, 
under the statute or by adequate agreement, are recognised 
as absolute, if they comply with the provisions of the statute. 
To make section 1 intelligible, however, it will be best to 
begin by transferring to this place from Schedule I. the im- 
provements admitted throughout the Act as — 
Subjects for Compensation. — It will be remembered that the 
Act of 1875 divided improvements into three classes. The 
same division is adopted in the new Act, though with a different 
arrangement. First come fourteen kinds of improvements, to 
which the assent of the landlord is required. They are the 
following : — 
1. Erection or enlargement of buildings. 
2. Formation of silos. 
3. Laying down of permanent pasture. 
4. Making and planting of osier-beds. 
5. Making of water-meadows, or works of irrigation. 
6. Making of gardens. 
7. Making or improving of roads or bridges. 
8. Making or improving of water-courses, ponds, wells or 
reservoirs, or of works for the application of water-power or for 
supply of water for agricultural or domestic purposes. 
9. Making of fences. 
10. Planting of hops. 
11. Planting of orchards or fruit-bushes. 
12. Reclaiming of waste land. 
13. Warping of land. 
14. Embankment and sluices against floods. 
Only two of these improvements are new, namely, No. 2, 
formation of silos, which in 1875 were almost unknown in this 
country ; and No. 14, embankment and sluices against floods. 
The rest are taken literally from the first-class improvements of 
1875, with the addition of "fruit-bushes" to orchard-planting 
in No. 11, and of " works for the application of water-power" 
in No. 8. 
We next come, in Part II. of Schedule I., to No. 15, Drainage, 
which stands as an improvement by itself; and in respect of 
which the landlord's consent is not required, though he must 
have notice of the tenant's intention to execute it. Drainage 
was included in the first-class improvements of 1875, for which 
the landlord's consent was required. It will be seen hereafter 
that the notice to landlords now required before tenants begin 
to drain may carry with it important consequences. 
In Part III. of Schedule I., corresponding with Classes 2 and 3 
