The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-11-25
a REVELATION III IRELAND.
low the Irish Tenautry are Treated.

Common forms are not, as general rule,
particularly interesting: but those who wish
to understand one side, at all events, of the
Irish land question, would do well to cast
their eyes over the common form which was
published In yesterday Times of the leas>
es which are hencetorward TO regulate the
position OF Lord Leitlim S tenantry. 1t
will enable them TO appreciate to certain
extent some Of the feelings with which the
Irish senantry lock at the question Of the
relation between their landlords and them
selves. The substance of this document is
as follows:
The Jesse is from year to year determin-
able by six months notice ending on either
rent day, and not, as in common yearly
tenancies, on the day from which the let
ting began.
1t reserves all timber, boys, mines,
game, hares, rabbits, wild fowl aud fish,"
with the right of shooting, &C., to Lord
Leitrlm, 'his heirs end assigns, and
their nominees, servants and followers"
and gives him power to enter for the pur-
pose OF surveying, searching for minerals,
and making roads and drains.
The tenant is restrained from making
new roads, fences or drains On the land,
aud from building Q nd altering any house
thereon, and from allowing any houses
thereon to be used as a dwelling house ex-
cept that in which he himself resides, and
he is also put under very stringent condi-
tons indeed as to tiilage,
The tenant Is to keep IN repair and yield
in repair all buildings, &C. He is to dig
up or cut down all thistles docks and other
weeds, before they go to seed, or at any
time when desired to Go go by the said
70 Il Oh I ~ Il ho.r
or their agent or other person duly author,
lied for the time being"
The tenant is also to assist to the ut
most the said Earl in prosecuting
trespassers.' He engages mot at any time
to take out, Or suffer to be taken out, any
dog or dogs, or destroy or injure, or suffer
to be destroyed or injured, any game, Or
the eggs or young of any game, hares, or
rabbits, or wild fowl" On the contrary, he
is to preserve and protect t same
| Ii ne breaks any of these conditions he
is to be subject to a further rent, in the ma
ture Of !iquidated damages; nothing in the
lease contained is to entrle the tenant Ito
any payment or compensation for any farm
or other building, for agricultural or other
wise, or tor any fixture or Improvement of
any description, unless the making Of such
work Or improvement shall have been pre-.
viously stipulated for and specified by an
| agreement In writing"
! These are the terms upon which Lord
Leitram is wiling to permit his tenants to
pay him rent for bis lands. One Of them,
the provision which requires the tenant to
i protect the eggs Of hares and rabbits, APP
pears to US uuobjectionablc enough if Lord
| Leitrim cares about it; but the general ten
or of the whole document throws strong
and most dismal light upon the causes Of
| Irish discomfort. We do not know how
many tenants there may be on Lord Lie
trims estate, but We are quite sure of one
point-whether they are many or few, the
land upon which they, and their ancestors
before them, we're for the most part bred
and born, is the sole fund to which they
can reasonably look for support.
They must either starve or else live by
It's cultivation, or else attempt to get work
| as laborers or to eniigrato. The demand
for labor is soanty and uncertain. Emigra-
ton IS not only very expensive, but is to the
last degree rapulaiye to their feelings
Practically, therefore, they are forced to
cultivate Lord Leitrim' estate or the terms
which lord Leitrim chooses to impose. -
We see by this lease what those terms are.
They are in substance that Lord Leitrim
and his agents are 10 be their absolute mas
t1rs