(Ireland.) A BIL L For providing Compensation, in certain Cases, for Tenants in Ireland who shall build on or drain Farms, and to secure to the Parties respectively entitled thereto the due Payment of such Compensation. [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] 5 Whereas it is expedient to promote the better culti Preamble: vation of Land in Ireland by facilitating the making and enforcing of voluntary agreements between Landlord and Tenant in that country, for improvements on farms; by securing compensation to Tenants making improvements in certain cases; and by providing that Landlords should, in certain cases, have charges on the lands whereon such improvements are made, in respect of their having made or paid for the same as hereinafter mentioned; Be it therefore Enacted, by The QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY, 10 by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT it shall be lawful for any Tenant in the occupation of any farm in Ireland, who may be desirous of improving all or any part of such farm, to cause to be delivered 15 to or served on his immediate Landlord, or if such immediate Landlord shall not be entitled to or interested in the said farm for a term of not less than Three lives then in being, or Thirty-one Years then unexpired, then also to or on the next superior Landlord of such farm, who shall be entitled to an estate or interest therein for a term of 20 of not less than Three lives then in being, or of Thirty-one Years certain then unexpired, and also to or on all Landlords of such farm (if any) entitled to estates or interests therein intermediate between 383. such A 1. Voluntary Agreements. Any Tenant of lands desirous of building a dwelling-house or offices, or thoroughdraining, &c., may serve on his Landlord a proposal as hereiu. 2. When superior and other Landlord shall be bound. 5 such next superior Landlord entitled as aforesaid, and such occu- 15 Provided always, and be it Enacted, That in case such next superior Landlord being so entitled to or interested in the said farm as aforesaid, for a term of not less than Three subsisting lives or Thirty-one Years 25 then unexpired, and all Landlords, if more than one, intermediate between such next superior Landlord and such occupying Tenant, on so receiving any such copy or copies of a Tenant's proposal as aforesaid, shall assent to such proposal, it shall be lawful for them and him, their or his known agents or receivers respectively, within 30 Thirty Days after the receipt thereof, to signify to such occupying Tenant the assent thereto of such Landlord or Landlords, by one or more writing or writings under their hands respectively, in the Form in the said Schedule (A. 2.) as parties thereto, therein specifying the person by whom such improvements are to be executed, and how, 35 when and in what manner, and by whom the sums specified as the estimated cost thereof shall be repaid to the person making such improvements, and also specifying to whom and by whom respectively and for what period such additional yearly rent, if any, shall be paid; and then and in such case, but not otherwise, the said proposal so 40 assented to shall, during the estates and interests of each and every of such Landlords, be binding on and may be enforced against each of them, his and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, and the assignees of his and their respective estate and interest in such farm, farm, in manner and to the extent, in such proposal so assented to, mentioned, but not against any person or persons entitled to an estate or interest in reversion or remainder, expectant on the determination of the estates or interests of all such assenting Landlords; and such 5 proposal so assented to shall be called and described, for the pur ments. poses of this Act, as a voluntary agreement; and it shall be lawful for Voluntary Agreesuch Tenant or any such Landlord to cause such proposal, together with such assent thereto, to be filed and registered in the office of the Clerk of the Peace of the county in which such farm, or the 10 greater part thereof, is situated, according to the provisions hereinafter contained. And be it Enacted, That if such next superior Landlord, so entitled to an estate in such farm for a term of not less than Three lives subsisting, or Thirty-one Years then unexpired, and all Landlords (if 15 any) intermediate between such superior Landlord and such occupying Tenant, having been so served with a copy of any such Tenant's proposal as aforesaid, shall refuse their or his assent thereto, or shall, for the space of Forty Days from the day of the last service of such proposal on any of such Landlords, refuse or omit to assent in 20 writing to such proposal in manner aforesaid, it shall be lawful for any such Tenant, not owing to his next immediate Landlord more than Two Years' rent of such farm, to serve on such immediate Landlord, or if such immediate Landlord shall not be entitled to or interested in the said farm for a term of not less than Three lives 25 then in being, or Thirty-one Years then unexpired, then also on the next superior Landlord entitled to or interested in such farm for such estate as last aforesaid, and also on all Landlords (if any) intermediate between such next superior Landlord entitled as aforesaid and such occupying Tenant, or the known agents or receivers of such 30 several Landlords, Two copies of a notice in the form set forth in the Schedule (B. 1.) to this Act annexed, setting forth the nature and description of the proposed improvements, the estimated cost of the same not exceeding Three Years' rent then payable to such immediate Landlord by such Tenant for such farm, the time within which such 35 work is proposed to be executed, and the yearly rent at which he then holds such farm; and such notice shall further state whether there is any, and if any, what amount of charge previously affecting or charged upon such farm in respect of any previous improvement executed thereon under the provisions of this Act; and such notice 40 shall also offer, that if such immediate Landlord (with the consent in writing obtained for that purpose of such next superior Landlord entitled to an estate or interest in such farm, for a term of not less than Three lives then subsisting, or of Thirty-one Years then unexpired, in case such immediate Landlord shall not himself be so entitled for such an estate), or that if such next superior Landlord 283. A 2 3. Proceedings for securing compulsory Compensation. Tenant may serve his Landlord with a improvements in stated. notice of certain the form herein Offer of increased rent, if the Landlord same. will execute the |