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Tlie Agricultural Holdings {England) Act, 1883. 
cases where, under § 33, the landlord and tenant have agreed to 
abide by a six months' notice. 
{V) When a yearly tenant or lessee has given notice to the 
landlord of his intention to begin an improvement, and the land- 
lord has either assented or failed to object for a month after re- 
ceiving the notice. It may easily happen that a landlord may 
be absent from home and return too late to object. But for the 
care which seems to have been taken to limit the agent's powers 
to specified acts in §§ 3 and 4, one would have said that the 
landlord might delegate his authority under this and other 
sections. A power of attorney might suffice, but as § 59 is 
drawn, one of its indirect effects may be to prevent landlords 
from taking more than a month's holiday. 
Rules for ascei'taining Compensation for Improvements (§ 6). — 
The general principles applicable to compensation for improve- 
ments having now been laid down, an important provision 
embodies the regulations to be observed in administering the 
Act. It is assumed that a certain sum is found to be due to the 
outgoing tenant, representing the value of his improvements to 
the new comer, after allowing for what is due to the inherent 
capabilities of the soil. But this sum may be subject both to 
deductions and augmentation. 
The deductions on the landlord's side are taken from the Act 
of 1875, namely : — 
(1) Any benefit given or allowed to the tenant in considera- 
tion of his making the improvement, such as reduced rental, 
materials free or at reduced prices. 
(2) If any compensation is claimed for manures, the valuers 
must ascertain what hay, straw, roots or green crops have been 
sold off or removed from the holding within the last two yeai's 
of the tenancy (the Act of 1875 said within the last three years), 
or during any shorter period if the tenancy has not lasted so 
long, and the amount of deduction will be the value of the 
manure that would have been produced by the consumption of 
those crops on the holding, less the amount which the tenant 
has spent on " a proper return of manure to the holding," in the 
place of the produce sold off or removed. " A proper return of 
manure" was the term used in 1875, and is therefore so far 
familiar to valuers. A tenant may be precluded by the terms 
of his agreement or lease from selling these crops off the holding; 
and the Act gives him no power to break his agreement in this 
respect. The principle recognized in most agreements, and 
embodied in the Act of 1875, is now repeated, namely, that the 
holding has a first claim on the crops here specified ; and if they 
do not go back to it in the form of manure, the tenant must 
supply an equivalent in manure or feeding-stuff, purchased by 
him and brought on to the holding for use or consumption. 
