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To clean out ditches.

Pay for

and all farm buildings, cottages, barns, sheds, and other erections, gates, stiles, bridges, culverts, ditches, watercourses, walls, fences, and hedges for the time being on the demised premes : [AND WILL at least once in every years during the sd term, or oftener if necessary, paint or tar such parts of the same as have been usually painted or tarred]. See Prec. III., clause 9, p. 729.

II. AND ALSO will at all times during the sd term keep the buildings, gates and fences of the sd premes in proper repair [damage by fire and tempest excepted], being allowed half the cost of such repairs, except for thatched buildings the roofs of which shall be repaired entirely at the expense of the lessee: AND WILL at all times during the sd term paint the internal woodwork of the farmhouse at least once in every ten years, and the outside of the farmhouse, and such parts of the buildings as have usually been painted, once in every five years with two good coats of oil-paint, and will tar the other outside woodwork of the farm buildings once in every ten years, [being allowed half the cost of such painting and tarring].

III. AND ALSO will throughout the sd term clean out at least once during every year in a proper mner, and keep in good order all the ditches, watercourses, sluices, sewers, and drains belonging to the demised premes.

IV. AND ALSO will, on being found by the lessor on the draining. sd demised premes, or within miles thof, proper pipes, pay for all labour, and other expenses, in draining the sd land without claiming any compensation for the same at the expiration of the tenancy. And further that no pipedrain shall, without the consent in writing of the lessor, or his agent, be laid at a less depth than feet from the surface of the ground, and that every such pipe-drain shall communicate with a ditch.

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dition of

V. AND ALSO will not without the consent in writing of alter con the lessor or his agent, materially alter the present laying premises. out, arrangemt, or condon of the sd demised premes. VI. AND ALSO will at all times during the sd term reside

To reside.

at the farm house on the demised premes unless authorised in writing by the lessor or his agent not to do so.

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VII. AND ALSO will cultivate and manage all the demised To cultipremes in accordance with the best and most improved, or, cording to "the four-course," or, "five-course" system of husbandry custom. as practised or in use in the county of [so far as such system may not be inconsistent with any of the special provons herein contd], and will keep the land clean and in good heart and condon. See Prec. IV. clause 7, p. 734.

provisions

VIII. AND IN PARTICULAR will not grow any unusual or Special exhausting crops on the demised premes, and will not grow as to arable cole, turnips, or mangold for seed to any greater extent than land.

acres in any year without the consent in writing of the

lessor or his agent: AND WILL not grow more than two crops of white corn, or any two crops of the same kind in immediate succession: AND WILL SOW not less than onesixth pt of the arable land with a proper proportion of clover and grass seeds in each and every year along with the first crop after summer fallow turnips or other fallow crop.

IX. AND IN PARTICULAR will in every year summer fallow, or fallow with turnips or other like crop, one-fourth pt of the arable land: AND WILL not in any season, without the consent in writing of the lessor or his agent, sow any pt of such arable land with a second successive crop of white strawed grain: AND WILL not suffer any sheep which have been fed on the demised premes to be folded elsewhere.

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X. AND IN PARTICULAR will not take a white straw crop The same. off the same land more than two years in succession: AND Another WILL not after notice to quit has been given or received by him or them take a second white straw crop off the same ground which las borne such a crop in the preceding year, without the consent in writing of the lessor or his agent.

cultivate

XI. AND ALSO will not sow, plant, or cultivate any pt of Not to the demised premes with hemp, flax, teazles, or woad, or specified any other unusual or exhausting crops, without the previous crops. consent in writing of the lessor or his agent, nor without such consent leave for seed in any year on the demised

For culti

vation of

pasture meadows.

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To consume

hay, &c.,

on the

premes any turnips, cole, rape, mangold, mustard, or rye grass, or any plants of a like nature, except so much thof as may be necessary for seeding the demised premes from year to year.

XII. AND ALSO will not mow or cut for hay any of the meadow-land, and will keep the same free from thistles, nettles, and rushes, and ant and mole-hills.

XIII. AND ALSO will not mow more than acres of the pasture-land in any one year, nor the same piece oftener than once in three years, under a penalty of £50 per acre for every acre so mown, and so in proportion for a less quantity, such sum to be recoverable immediately as rent in arrear, and will keep the same, as in last form.

XIV. AND ALSO will not cut away any peat or turves, or pare, burn, or plough up any old pasture or land permanently laid down in grass.

XV. AND ALSO will consume all the hay, straw, fodder, haulm, turnips, mangolds, and other root crops on the premises. premes, or leave the same at feeding price for the incoming tenant, and will in every year carry out and spread at proper times, and in a husband-like manner, on the demised premes all dung and muck produced by the consumption of the same. See Prec. III., clause 22, p. 730; Prec. IV., clause 6, p. 733.

To spud thistles, &c.

To keep up a flock of mountain sheep.

XVI. AND ALSO will twice at least in every year during the sd term properly spud the thistles, and grub up or otherwise destroy the nettles, and keep the rushes properly mown, and pull out all wild oats from the standing corn: and will once in every year cut the ant-hills.

XVII. AND ALSO will at all times keep up a flock of at least mountain sheep and lambs, bred and grazed on the demised premes, and will at the end of the tenancy transfer the same to the lessor or the incoming tenant at a valuation.

To replace XVIII. AND ALSO will preserve all fruit-trees in the orchards fruit-trees. or elsewhere on the sd demised premes, and will plant such good and healthy young fruit-trees as may be required to

supply the place of those which may die or go to decay, or become unproductive, so as to keep the sd orchards well and sufficiently stocked with fruit-trees.

underwood

usual in

XIX. AND ALSO will not cut coppice or underwood, except Not to cut at the usual season according to the custom of the country, ' except at and will not cut any coppice or underwood of less than years' growth, and will give ten days' notice in writing to the lessor or his agent, of the intention to cut the same, SO as to enable him to mark any tellers.

tervals.

XX. AND ALSO will preserve all trees, tellers, pollards, and To preserve trees, &c. saplings for the time being standing or growing on the demised premes from bite of cattle or other injury, and will not cut down, fell or destroy, or top, lop, or prune any such trees, tellers, pollards, and saplings [under the penalty of £ for every such tree, teller, pollard, or sapling, to be paid in addition to the actual amount of damage done as afsd, and to be recoverable immediately as rent in arrear].

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hedges and

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tions.

XXI. AND ALSO will from time to time during this demise, To preserve when and so often as he shall new make or cut any of the hedges or fences on the sd demised premes, at his own expense, dig and make good ditches on the side of such hedges. or fences in the usual manner, [and also will at the like expense make and maintain good and sufficient wire, or, railway," or, "temporary" fences for preserving any such new made hedges and fences, and the young springs thof from any hurt or damage by cattle or otherwise], [and will not cut any hedges (1), plantations, or pollards till they are of the age of years, except such hedges and pollards as shall be clipped yearly, and also will at all times give ten days' notice in writing to the lessor or his agent, of the intention to cut any hedges, fences, or plantations, so as to enable him to mark such tellers as he may think fit to be left growing for timber].

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contain underwood.

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To preserve

and not to

commit waste.

XXII. AND ALSO will at all times during the sd term keep all the hedges and fences in good condon, and will yearly at the proper season clip such of the hedges as have been usually clipped.

XXIII. AND ALSO will not raise or remove, or suffer to be minerals, raised or removed, any stone, clay, brick earth, gravel, sand, or minerals from the demised premes, except materials for making or repairing new or existing roads on the sd premes, and will not commit wilful or voluntary waste, spoil, or destruction, in or upon the sd premes, or any pt thof, but will use and manage the same in a good and husband-like

To preserve

boundaries and pre

manner.

XXIV. AND ALSO will preserve all bounds, hedges, and fences, and will not suffer any new roads or footpaths to be vent new made, and will prevent the enclosure of or encroachmt upon encroach- any waste lands on the boundaries or frontage of the sd demised premes.

roads or

ments.

To keep a

XXV. AND ALSO will keep a field book, showing how field book. every field or parcel of the demised premes has been cropped and cultivated in every year of the sd term, and permit the lessor or his agent, from time to time to inspect the sd book, and to take copies thof or extracts therefrom.

To allow lessor to inspect, and to re

pair on notice.

XXVI. AND ALSO will permit the lessor, or his agent, at all seasonable times, to enter into and upon the sd demised premes, and to examine the state of repair and cultivation and condon thof, [and to take any map or plan of the sd premes], and in case the farmhouse, farmbuildings, gates, &c., following the words in the covenant to repair, on the sd premes or any pt thof, shall be found defective or out of repair, [or in case the sd land or any pt thof shall not be found in a good and proper state of cultivation and condon], and notice in writing of any such defects or matters shall be given to the lessee, or left on the demised premes, the lessee will [if and so far as the case will admit] make good the same in a substantial and proper manner within the space of three calendar months next after every such notice shall

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