Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-25
AREYELATlON IN IRELAND.
How the Irish Tenantry are Treated
From the Pail Mall Gazette.

How the Irish Tenantry are Trssseo'
From the Pail Mall Gazette.
Common forms are not, a. . general RUE,
particuiarly interesting; but those who wish
to understand one side, at ell events, OF the
irish land question, would do we'll to cast
their ewes over the common form which was
published in Yesterday 3 Times of the leases
which IRE henceforward to regulate the po-
sition of Lord Leitrim's tenantry. 1t will
enable them to appreciate to certain ex-
tent some of the feelings with which the
Irish tepsntry look ut the question of the
relation between their landlords and them
selves. The substance Of this document 10
as follows:
The lease is from year to year, determin-
able by six months notice ending on either
rent day. and not, rs in common yearly
tenancies, on the day from which the letting
began.
It reserves all timber, bogs, mines.
s.pame, hares, rabbits. wild fowl aud fish, :"
with the right of shooting, &C., to Lord
Leitrim, IBIS heirs and assigns, his and
their nominees, servants and followers
and gives him power to enter fGr the pur-
pose Of surveying, searching for numerals.
ind making roads and drains.
The tenant is restrained from MAKING
new roads, fences or drains on the land,
and from building and altering any house
thereon, and from allowing any houses
thereon to be used as dwelling house ex-
cept that in which h. himself resides, and
he il also put under very stringent condi-
lions indeed a. to tillage. :" =:
The tensnt il to keep in repair and yield
in repair al baldings, 90. He y 70 d,g
up or cut down AL thist!es, docks and 9th.
OF weeds, before they 60 to seed, q Of any
time when 4esirsd e 80 80 Ry the 81; "a
Earl of Leitriaa, bis heits o. assigna, or h1s
or their agent OF other person duly author
lied for the time being"
The tenant is also ito assist to the ut
most the said Earl in prosecuting
tresDassers." He engages mot at any time
to tako put, or suffer to he taken out, any
dog OF dogs, u dnsttay s. 'Sirse, OF san 81
to be destroyed or injured, 'ahy es@e' 81
rabbits, or Wild fowl" On the contrary. he
! IL to :.rtess2yo erd protect the same"
# ha breaks aay Of these ee3Slitions, he
is 70 be subject to ( fdrtker rentJj III thu ma
ture Of lia4idoted damages: nothing il tie
lease contained il to entitle the tenant ':to
anv payment or compensation for any farm
or other building, for agriculture or other:
wise. or for any fixture or Improvement o.
anv description, unless the making of such
work or Improvement shalt have been pre-
vioqsiy stinylated fon and epecitied BY an
sgree,psnt IS wijtihg!' u :. ..
These are tho terms upon which lord
Leitrim is willing to permit bis tsusnta sc
nav him rent for his lands. One OF them,
the provision which requires the tenant to
protect the eggs of hares and rabbits, up.
bears To % ppopi ec.;ona,2le enough if Lord
teitrim cares ab6qt II; lat thegsaaersl Ten:
or of the whole document throws stropa
and most dismal light upon the causes o.
Irish discomfort. We do hot know how
many tenants there may be on Lord Lie
| t,i4!s aats.ts, but We ore quite sure Of one
| pointE1hfgthef taey s.e :asay or few, the
land upohl which thsy. aud taoir ancestors
! before them, were for the most part bred
| AID born; 10 the sole fund TO which they
can l2asonably laa2 f1r support: =
They must either atardS Of else live by
its cultivation, or else attempt TO get wort
az laborers or to emigrate. The demand
for labor is scanty and uncertain. Emigra'
| tiap is not Only very expensive, but is te
the last degree reIulsive to their feelings
! Practida1iy,i therefore, they aro forced tc
! cultivate Lord Leitrims estate On tho termt
which Lord Leitrim chooses To impose.
We ses by thia lee se what those terms are
They are in substance that T.oyd heitrim
and his agents are to be their absolute mas
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