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18 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.

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.

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: