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XV. — A Form of Memorandum on Tenant-r{(]ht to be added to 
existing Agreements or Leases. By Barugh Almack. 
The adoption of protective covenants for the improvements of 
tenants, and the consequent establishment of a custom under 
which all questions between landlord and tenant should be settled 
by arbitration, would not only encourage tenants in expenditure 
upon their farms by giving them a just security for their outlay, 
but would incidentally afford a means of simplifying and improving 
the clauses in farm-agreements, as the tenant's claim on account of 
his improvements would be liable towards the owner for the dila- 
pidations which the tenant might have caused in other parts 
of the farm ; and as I cannot help thinking that many landlords 
would be disposed to afford their tenants some positive and sub- 
stantial security, if they could only see a ready and unobjection- 
able mode of doing so, I will venture to suggest the following one, 
in case they should not discover a better. The chief plan of it 
was drawn up about a year ago, and annexed to the end of a form 
of farm-agreement, as here exhibited ; but some changes were 
made in it by Mr. Pusey in adopting this memorandum for his 
own estate, and those changes have been introduced here. 
Although in several cases the number of years is inserted, it is 
obvious that the proportions (or number of years for allowance) 
should be regulated partly by the nature of the materials, and 
partly by the value of the workmanship. In all improvements, 
too, their value to the owner inust be greatly affected by the pro- 
bability of their being more or less permanent, and his liability in 
respect to them should be calculated accordingly. 
AND the said and 
hereby mutually agree that if any dispute shall arise betvveen the said 
, their 
executors and administrators, upon the said 
quitting the said farm, or upon the state of cultivation or 
condition thereof — such dispute shall he settled by two referees, one 
7iamed by each party, or their umpire — 'and in case one party refuse to 
nominate a referee within ten days after notice has been given in writing 
by the other party, the referee of the other party alone may make a final 
decision. If two referees are appointed, they are to nominate an um- 
pire before proceeding to business, and the decision of such referees or 
umpire, as the case may be, shall be final. 
WITNESS the liands of the parties. A. B. 
C. D. 
In order to encourage the tenant to cultivate the farm in the highest 
possible manner, the said hereby engages 
on behalf of himself and his representatives, owners of the farm* let to 
* These words arc thus Hmited to the future owners of the farm, in order 
to prevent the charge upon the land from applying to the personalty of a 
deceased landlord, which may have been devised by him to parties other 
