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The Agricultural Holdings Act.

Deduction in first class for want of repair, &c.11.—In the ascertainment of the amount of the tenant's compensation in respect of an improvement of the first class, there shall be taken into account, in reduction thereof, any sum reasonably necessary to be expended for the purpose of putting the same into tenantable repair or good condition.




REMARKS.




Landlord's consent.Before executing these improvements the tenant must obtain his landlord's consent in writing, since for any improvement executed without such consent the tenant will not be entitled to claim compensation.

Compensation to Tenant, how estimated.Presuming the consent obtained and the improvement executed; then the tenant has in estimated, substance a lease for twenty years of all those lands upon which he has executed the improvements mentioned in Class I., without paying any increased rent for the same, and if his tenancy be sooner determined, either by himself or his landlord, then he is entitled to compensation as ascertained by the following calculations:

Case Supposed.
Tenancy commenced 11th Oct., 1875.
Improvement is executed April, 1876. Now the time at which the exhaustion commences is the "year of tenancy after the year of tenancy in which the outlay is made," which in the above case then is 11th Oct., 1876.
Tenancy determined 11th Oct., 1884.
The tenant then has exhausted 8 years