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a presents of his house and (ground to any one who will take it; but of course could be no one) will be too foolish. He will then offer them to the Governments, who will also refuse to receive them, and tell him to stick to his bargain and pay up his rent: If he be a man who has invested his all in building, and who has no income from other sources out of which to pay his ground rent, he will be reduced to constantly recurring loss by payment of the rent, and from beggary if the felony is committed, he will therefore, without doubt, choose the alternation left him and abandoning his property to its fate.

If a private landed proprietor had an estate lenanted on long lease by, say, twenty or thirty families who cultivate it for their support, paying their rent regularly, and by the occurrence of some unforeseen circumstance the estate became much less productive than before, so that if the tenants continued, for any length of time to pay the rents they had contracted to pay, the poorest of them must at once be reduced to want, and the richer be soon brought to the same condition, it is probable that he would, as a prudent man, rather allow them to remain on paying rent for his land at its true value, seeing no one else could give him more, ultimately, than drive them by the pressures of want to seek their living in some other place.

The Government, fearful (perhaps groundlessly so) of the permanent reduction of the revenue, refuses to surrendered with any ground, though substantial buildings upon it. Were loss allowed to reach to Government at the will of the Lessee, the vischief,

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401 a presents of his house and (ground to any one who will take it; but of course could be no one) will be too foolish. He will then offer them to the Governments, who will also refuse to receive them, and tell him to stick to his bargain and pay up his rent: If he be a man who has invested his all in building, and who has no income from other sources out of which to pay his ground rent, he will be reduced to constantly recurring loss by payment of the rent, and from beggary if the felony is committed, he will therefore, without doubt, choose the alternation left him and abandoning his property to its fate. If a private landed proprietor had an estate lenanted on long lease by, say, twenty or thirty families who cultivate it for their support, paying their rent regularly, and by the occurrence of some unforeseen circumstance the estate became much less productive than before, so that if the tenants continued, for any length of time to pay the rents they had contracted to pay, the poorest of them must at once be reduced to want, and the richer be soon brought to the same condition, it is probable that he would, as a prudent man, rather allow them to remain on paying rent for his land at its true value, seeing no one else could give him more, ultimately, than drive them by the pressures of want to seek their living in some other place. The Government, fearful (perhaps groundlessly so) of the permanent reduction of the revenue, refuses to surrendered with any ground, though substantial buildings upon it. Were loss allowed to reach to Government at the will of the Lessee, the vischief,
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a presents of his house

and

(ground to any

one who will take it ; but of course

courde no one)

will be to foolish . He will then offer them to the Governments, who will also refuse to

receive them, and tell him to stick to his

bargain and pay up his pont : If he be

a man who has invested his all

building,

in

the

and who has no income from other sources out of which to

of which to depay his

ground rent, he will be reduced to

Remain in

constantly recurring

loss by payment of

the

beggary if the

the felony

aud

from

is

to

will therefore without doubt, choose the

alternation left him and pemore. it altogether, abandoning his property

its fate .

If a private landed proprietor

had an estate lenanted

on

long lease by cond twenty or thirty families who cultivates it for their

support, paying their rout

regularly, and by the occurrence

of some

C

unforeseen circumstance the estate became much less production than before, so that if the tenants continued, for any length

time to pay the rents, they

of

had contracted

to pay, the poorest of them must at once be reduced to want, and the richer be son

to the same condition, it is

brought

probable that he would, as a prudent many rather allow them to Resuain on

paying rent

that

for

his land

it at its true valud,

no one else could u

seeing give him more,

altimately

else could ultimately than drive them by the

seek

pressures of seant to sock their living in some other place.

The Government, fearful,

(perhaps groundlessly so, ) of the permanent

to resumo

reduction of the revenue, refuses to

surrendered with

any ground, though substantial buildings upon it . Wère loss allowed to reach to Gorcement at the will of the Lessed, the vischief,

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