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THE EGLINTON TENT. 
Farm, next made application to the Commissioners, to 
have an allotment of from three to five hundred acres of 
the purchased land, for purposes of cultivation. 
The Commissioner’s acceded to this request, subject to 
certain conditions, namely, that an annual rent of one 
penny per acre should be paid in consideration thereof, 
into her Majesty’s treasury, by the Model Farm Society, 
of Mincing-lane, London. The superintendent was 
charged to respect the rights of the natives who might 
be in occupation of any houses or lands under cultiva- 
tion ; which, however, he was at liberty to hire, provided 
the native proprietors were willing to part with them, on 
such a reasonable compensation being paid as should be 
decided upon by the Commissioners, or in their absence 
by the senior naval officer, or their deputy ; in whose 
presence, and in that of the chief of the district in 
which the land should be situate, it was provided the 
bargain should be made, and the boundaries settled ; — 
the same to be duly registered. 
In the meanwhile, as no obstacles were anticipated to 
these arrangements, and in order, as much as possible, to 
avoid delay, which in our present circumstances was 
very necessary, the house, stores, and model farm 
furniture had been landed, and a gay tent, which figured 
at the Eglintoun Tournament, was set up as a temporary 
residence for the superintendent. In disembarking the 
cumbrous iron-work of the model farm, our paddle-box 
boat unfortunately got adrift, owing to the strength of the 
current, filled, and sank in a deep part of the river. The 
loss of the iron was comparatively of little consequence. 
