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PREC. III. times, with suitable dressings, and to keep the lands at all times in a clean state, and cultivated according to the best course of husbandry.

seventh

of land.

Not to grow for seeds.

To grow hops.

To stock farm.

Not to break up

pasture.

To con

sume hay.

Not to carry off

hay, &c., without bringing

16. NOT To leave for seed any turnip, rape, mustard, ryegrass, mangold, flax, or other such seeds on the sd premes (except so much of such seeds as may be required annually for seed by the sd farm), without bringing on fifteen yards of good rotten dung per acre, or an equivalent in other

manures.

17. To KEEP up in good plant not less than -- acres of hops.

18. TO KEEP the farm sufficiently stocked, and not to stall off any of the sheep depasturing thereon.

19. NOT To break up any pasture-land without the written consent of the landlord or his agent, or to mow any pt thof in three successive years, under a penalty of £50 for every acre so broken up, and £10 for every acre so mown, and so in proportion for any less quantity than an acre, such penalties to be recoverable by action as liquidated damages, or by distress on the premes as rent in arrear, and within six months after mowing, where the hay is not consumed on the farm, to manure one-third pt of the lands mown with not less than twenty-five yards of good rotten dung per acre, or other manure equivalent thto, and not to mow in any one year more than acres of the pasture

land.

20. To spud thistles, &c., p. 712.

21. TO CONSUME all the grass hay upon the farm, unless the landlord or his agent gives his written consent to the contrary.

22. NOT To carry off from the farm any of the hay, straw, haulm, clover or roots, without bringing on to the farm immediately in exchange four cubic yards of good dung for manure on. every load of hay, straw, haulm or clover, so carried off, and fifteen yards of good dung for every acre of roots carried off, or an equivalent in other manures, for such quantities resply, such manure and dung, togr with manure made on

the farm, to be spread in a husbandlike mner on the land PREC. III. in every year, or, in the last year of the tenancy, left made up in proper maxhills, the tenant being paid for his labour on the same according to the custom of the country.

for hay,

23. TO GIVE, if required, at every audit, an account of Account the straw and hay sold off, and the manure brought on the &c. land in the preceding year.

timber.

24. NOT To prune, top, or lop any of the timber trees Not to cut injuriously, under a penalty of £10 for each tree and not to cut down or destroy any of the timber, or timber-like trees, under a penalty of £20 for every tree, such penalties to be recoverable in the same way as the above-mentd penalties.

fruit-trees

25. TO PRESERVE all fruit-trees, and plant fresh ones in Preserve lieu of those dying, or becoming decayed.

26. To preserve boundaries, and prevent encroachments, p. 714.

27. To cleanse ditches, p. 710.

assign.

28. NOT To assign or underlet any portion of the premes, Not to except the cottages and gardens, without the landlord's written consent.

29. To sow seeds in the last year with the wheat or spring Sow seeds. corn, and not to turn any stock or sheep into such seeds to feed them injuriously after harvest.

at end of

30. TO LEAVE, at the end of the tenancy, two-seventh Cultivation parts of the arable land in a fit state, and proper tilth for a tenancy. wheat season in equal proportions of clover ley, podware, mangold, and rape.

After

31. TO ALLOW the incoming tenant, after the harvest in harvest the last year of the tenancy, to enter the stubbles and to allow plough the same in case the outgoing-tenant is unable or tenant to incoming unwilling to perform the work required to be done by the plough. new tenant.

THE LANDLORD agrees

Landlord

agrees

32. TO FIND, within six weeks after notice, rough timber To find materials or other proper materials for repairs (except as afsd) within for repairs.

PREC. III.

To rebuild in case of

fire.

To allow
for hay,
&c., left
on farm.
For labour

miles of the premes, and to bear half the expense of labour, nails, gate-irons, and staples in such repairs.

33. TO REBUILD, in case of fire, the house and premes within six months upon such a scale as the landlord shall think suitable and proper for the farm.

34. TO ALLOW the tenant for all the hay, straw, haulm, chaff, and litter left on the farm, at feeding price, and for the clover left on the farm, at sale price; To pay for all on fallows. labour on the fallows and on the manures during the last For puryear; To pay for purchased manures brought on during chased manures. the last year, and from which no benefit has been derived by the tenant, except any unreasonably and unnecessarily purchased, and except any brought on under Clause 22; To pay for seeds sown reasonably and seasonably by the Labour on tenant according to his agreement; To pay for all labour properly bestowed upon stubbles after harvest, unless the landlord should have signified that he did not require any such labour bestowed, but the tenant to be in such case found all reasonable work for his horses; To allow the tenant the use of the barns until the day of next

Seeds.

stubbles.

Use of barns.

For hop poles.

For under- exceeding

wood.

For paint. For oilcake, &c.

For quiet enjoyment.

Proviso for re-entry.

after the end of the tenancy; To pay for hop-poles on not acres of land; To pay for the underwood down to the stub; To pay for tar and paint which has been properly used on the premes by the tenant; To pay the tenant one-fourth pt of the cost price of all linseed, rape, or cotton cake consumed by cattle or sheep during the last year of the tenancy, and also one-eighth pt of all corn fed by cattle, sheep, or swine, provd there has been no crop taken from the manure or the fields since the feeding.

35. FOR QUIET enjoymt by the tenant on paymt of rent and performance of this agreemt without interruption by the landlord or any one claiming under him.

36. THE LANDLORD shall have a right of re-entry on nonpaymt of rent within twenty-one days after the day for paymt, whether demanded or not, or on breach of any of the agreemts on the pt of the tenant [or on his becoming

bankrupt, or entering into liquidation or compounding with PREC. III. his creditors].

tion.

37. AT THE expiration of the tenancy the amount to be Arbitrapaid by the landlord to the tenant on his quitting the sd farm, and any amount to which the landlord may be entled by reason of any breach of any of the agreemts or condons hinbefore contd, or any other matter of dispute respecting the provons herein contd, or in any way connected with or arising out of the letting of the sd farm, shall be settled in the usual way by two arbitrators to be mutually chosen by the pties, or in case of difference by their umpire, whose decision shall be binding.

38. The Agricultural Holdings Act not to apply [save as hinbefore provd], p. 721.

AS WITNESS, &c.

IV.

AGREEMENT for a YEARLY TENANCY in WORCESTER PREC. IV.

SHIRE.

PARTIES, as in Precedent I.

1. Agreement to let, &c., as in Precedent I., clause 1.

THE TENANT hereby agrees as follows:-
:-

2. To pay rent, p. 626.

Tenant agrees.

3. To pay rates and taxes, p. 627.

4. AND ALSO will pay in like mner such further rent as shall, &c., "in underdraining the sd premes," p. 709, clause II.

5. Add appropriate provisions as in preceding forms, as to any matters not provided for in the following clauses.

6. ALL hay, straw, roots, cabbages, and other food To consume hay, for cattle grown upon the sd farm shall be consumed &e.

PREC. IV. thereon, or if sold, one-half of the proceeds of such sale shall within six months after the sale be expended in manure approved by the landlord or his agent, to be applied either to green crops or to the pasture land, the other half in oil-cake or linseed to be given to cattle or sheep. All manures whether made from the produce of the farm, or purchased in exchange for such produce sold, shall be used upon the sd farm, or in the last year of the tenancy left for the benefit of the succeeding tenant. Notice shall be given by the tenant to the landlord or his agent previous to any such sale of hay, &c., as above, and vouchers shall be produced for the manure or oil-cake bought instead thereof. If any hay, &c., as above, be destroyed or damaged by fire the value thereof shall be expended in the pchase of other hay, &c., as above, or in manures and oil-cake in the same mner as if such hay, &c., as above, had been sold.

To farm properly.

On ter

mination one-half

land to

be ready

for white

7. THE LAND shall be kept, during the tenancy under this agreemt, in a clean and good state of cultivation and so cropped that at the expiration thof the arable land shall be in the condon hinafter mentd, or the tenant shall pay to or be paid by the landlord for any deviation thfrom such sum as shall be determined by arbitration, as hinafter mentd.

8. ONE HALF of the arable land shall, on such expiration of the tenancy, be clean and in good condon and fit to plant with white straw crops. Of such half part, one moiety shall have been fallowed (with or without green crops) during the straw crop. previous summer; the other moiety thof shall have been wholly under clover or mixed grass seeds, or part in clover and the rest beans or peas after being manured, none of the clover or other grasses having been allowed to stand for seed.

One-fourth

sown with clover.

9. ONE-FOURTH of the arable land shall have been sown land to be in the spring of the year preceding the termination of the tenancy with clover or other proper mixed-grass seeds upon land fallowed the previous year and clean; the seeds, sowing, and harrowing to be paid for by the landlord or his incoming tenant provd they have not been grazed after harvest.

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