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Tenant's claim would be "a proportion of the sum properly laid out on the improvement as fairly represents the value thereof to an incoming tenant."

The proportion depends upon the nature and quantity of the crop taken after manurance. It might be ½, ⅓, or ¼ manure according to circumstances. Let us take ½ in the following case. Suppose:

then would be the value of manure to an incoming tenant.

This claim, however, is liable to the deductions and restrictions as shown on the other side.

1st.—If there has been taken from the portion of the holding to which purchased manure was applied a crop of corn, potatoes, hay, seed, or any other exhausting crop, then the tenant has no claim.

2nd.—If the tenant after the "Application of purchased manure, &c.," has grown, and during the last two years, sold off the holding: hay, straw, roots, or green crop, then from this sum of £50 there must be deducted the value of the manure that would have been produced if the crop had been fed instead of sold, unless he has returned to the holding an equivalent in manure.

3rd.—If the amount laid out during the last year of tenancy exceed the average amount for like purposes of the three years next preceding the last year of tenancy, then, before the unexhausted values of manure to an incoming tenant can be ascertained, the following calculation must be made:—

Supposing sum laid out in last year of tenancy, £100.

And the average sum laid out for the three years before the last year of tenancy was £80 a year;

In that case, although tenant expended £100, in considering his claim to compensation, it must only be taken to be £80.