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THURSDAY_ AUGUST 14, 181'7.

PA I'M EN 1' OF RENTS.

An ACT to alter an Act passed in Cie Eleventh Yei-r of .thc;
Ileign of
,King. George the second, for the more eftectnal
sccnriin the Payment of I{euts, and prevenlin
,FL;aucis by
Tenants. [27th J0ne,,,1317

Whereas by tin Act of Parliament passed in the Eleventh
Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Se-
cond, intituled An Act for the more effectual securing the
Faymentof Rents, and preventing Frauds by Tenants, it is
amongst other things enacted, that from and after the Twen-
ty-fourth Day of June One thousand seven hundr4,cl and
thirty-eight, if any Tenant holding any Lands, Tenements,
or Fiereditaments at a rack rent, or where the rent reserved
should be full thtee-fourths of the pearly value of the de-
mised Pro:Liset,. who should be in arrear for one year's rent,
should deser.t" the demised Premises, and leave the 'same un-
cultivated or unoccupied, so as no sufficient distress could he-
ti-ad to countervail the arrears of rent, -if ShOuld and might be
lawful to and for Two or more dustless of the Peace of the
County, Riding, DiviSion, or Place (having no interest in the
demised Premises), at the request of the Lessor orlandlord,
Lessors or Landlords, or his, her, or their Bailiff or Receiver,
to go upon and view the same, and to affix or cause to be af-
fixed on the,most notorious part of the Premises notice in
writing what day (at the distance of fourteen days at least)
they would return to tahe'a second view thereof; and if upon
such second view, the Tenant, or some Person on his or her
behalf, should not appear -and pay the rent in arrear, .or
there should not be sufficient distress upon the Premises,
then the said Justices might put the Landlord or Landlords,
Lessor or Lessors, into the possession of the said demised
Premises; and the Lease thereof to such Tenant, as to any
Demise therein contained only, should from thenceforth be-
come void : And whereas it is expedient, for the due protec-
tion of the interest of Landlords, that so much of the said:
Act as requires a Tenant to be in arrear fur One Year's Rent
should be altered, and that the provisions of the said Act
should be extended to Tenancies where no right of entry in ,
case of non-payment is reserved to
.the Landlord ; be it
therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by
and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons; in this present Parliament assem-
bled, and try the authority of the same, That from and after
the passing of this Act, the provisions, powers, and remedies
by the said recited'Act given to Lessors and Landlords in case
of any Tenant deserting the demised Premises mid leaving the
same uncultivated or unoccupied, so as no sufficient distress
can be had to,conntervall the arrears of rent, shall be ex-
tended to the case of tenants holding any
.Lands, Tenements,
or Hereditamerits at a rack rent, or where the rent reserved
shati'be: lull three-finirths of the yearly value of the demised
Premises, and who shall be in arrear fot one half7year's rate,
(ii)siead,olifor one year. as in the said recited Act is- pro-
vided and enacted), and who shall hold such Lairds and Te-
nementi-nt`Hereditaments under any demise or agreement
either written Of verbal, and although no- right or power of
re-entry be reserved or given to the Landlord in case of non-
payment of rent, who shall he in arrear fur one half }ear's
rent, instead of for one year, as in the ,said recited Act is
provided and .exacted.