Second Shetland Truck System ReportGuthrie, William
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Second Shetland Truck System Report
Guthrie, William
Labor law -- Truck system -- History -- England; Shetland (Scotland) -- History
7. No sub-tenant shall be at liberty to sell or otherwise dispose of
any straw, turnips, hay, or dung produced on his farm except to
neighbours, tenants on the property. All that class of produce must
be consumed on the farm, unless with the written permission of
the proprietors which will be given to any tenant agreeing to
expend the full value of any such produce sold upon the purchase
of oilcake or special manure to be consumed on the farm during
the same season.
8. In compensation for the sub-tenants leaving their lands in a
more improved condition, and for being prevented from disposing
of certain portions of their crops, the sub-tenants shall be paid by
the proprietor of the lands, through the lessees for the grass seeds
sown with way-going crop, as also for their corn and straw, hay
and turnips, or other produce left at the end of their sub-leases, and
for all dung made during the last six months of said sub-lease, all
at the value as the same shall be determined by two valuators to be
mutually chosen for the purpose.
9. No sub-tenant shall be allowed to keep any bull, stallion, ram,
or boar, unless such as permitted by the lessees.
10. The lessees shall reserve from the sub-leases, for behoof of
the proprietor, the right of searching for and working mines and
minerals, and the right of salmon and trout fishings and shootings.
11. The lessees shall also reserve all the peat-mosses, shell-sand,
and sea-weed, and shall regulate and divide them among their
sub-tenants as circumstances shall render necessary; the lessees
shall also bind the sub-tenants to 'cast', such peats as may be
allotted in a regular manner, and to relay the turf in neat and
regular order, with the grass side uppermost. The drift sea-weed
and shell-sand to be used as manure will be divided by the lessees
among their sub-tenants according to the quantity of land held by
each.
12. No sub-tenant shall have an right to strike theek, cut turf,
except as hereinbefore provided for repairing roofs of houses, or
floss, remove earth, or in any way deteriorate or injure the lands
hereby let, without the consent of the proprietors or their agent or
factor.
13. The sub-tenant shall be bound to accede to all local regulations
which may be made by lessees, with consent of the proprietors, for
the more orderly management of the property and the general
interests of all concerned.
14. When any act of bankruptcy shall take place upon the part of
any sub-tenants, it shall be stipulated that this lease shall terminate
and revert back to the lessees at the first term after such act of
bankruptcy.
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