2. Houses about twenty-one feet in front will let from four guineas a week furnished to eight guineasy according to the feafon of the year and the time they are engaged for. The deareft season is from Christmas to June, when families are in town and the parliament fitting; the cheapest, when families are out of town, and the parliament prorogued. In the winter feason, fuch a houfe as I have mentioned, taken for four or five months, may poffibly be had for feven guineas aweek. Thus taken, the tenant pays no taxes, the goods are delivered on inventory, and whatever is destroyed is paid for. Furnished lodgings, that is, the first floor with a fervant's room, &c. in fuch a house, will let for from two guineas a-week to three and a half, in proportion to the goodness of the furniture, the conveniencies wanted, the trouble given, the time they are engaged for, and the season of the year.

Houfes of fifty guineas a-year rent will let furnished for from two guineas weekly to five, and the first floor furnished will let for, from one guinea a week to two guineas; fecond floors two thirds of the rent of first floors, and parlour floors at the price of fecond floors.

3. It is generally eftimated, that in lodging-houses the rent of the first floor furnifhed, with other conveniencies, fuch as kitchen, cellars, garret, &c. fhall pay the rent and taxes of the whole houfe unfurnished.

4. Shops, when let feparate, will fetch from 201. ayear to 601. free of taxes, according to their fize, fituation, trade of the street, and fhew of window.

5. Landlords have now got into a method of making tenants pay guineas for rent inftead of pounds, and alfo land-tax and repairs;, but all thefe outgoings fhould be confidered when the agreement is made, as well as the taxes on the houfe, for in fome parifhes the poorrates and land-tax are lower than in others. Perfons who have money may often get the remnant of a leafe cheap, provided they will pay down a certain fum of money for fuch leafe; for there are always diftreffed houfe-keepers in London, trying to procure money by every poffible means; for which reafon, fuch as purchafe a lease should examine the covenants of that lease, and the fate of the building, and particularly take care

that

that the rent and taxes are paid up to the time they take poffeffion of it, and also the ground-rent, by feeing the receipts; otherwise the tenant may have the arrears of fuch rent or taxes to pay, and the feller of the leafe may not be found, or, if found, not able to repay.

6. The general conditions of a leafe are, to leave fuch fixtures at the end of the term as are given in with the lease on schedule, and to leave it in fuch a state as it was in when taken, the wear from time only excepted; to pay the rent half-yearly, under a forfeiture of the leafe, but with a liberty of affigning it dur'ing the term.

7. If a tenant purchases or takes a lease of another tenant, during its term, by affignment, he is no longer bound for the rent than whilft it is in his poffeffion; he may affign it to another, and, this done, is no longer anfwerable for the rent; but the firft tenant, affigning it without the confent of his landlord, is held bound for the rent during the whole term, if the occupier does not pay it.

8. TABLE, fhewing how many Years Purchase an Annuity or Leafe is worth, fo as to make 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 per cent. of Money. Y. M.D. Years, Months, Days.

Y. P.

4 per cent. 5 per cent.6 per cent.7 per cent. 8 per cent

Y. M. D.Y. M. D.Y. M. D.Y. M. D.Y. M. D.

20 13 7 3,12 21 14 O 9.12

22 14 5 1213 1 27 12 234 10 613 5 24/12 24 15 2 2713 9 1512

O 1211 O 2110

4

7

6

5 1

1810

7

39

9 24

9

010 310 10

6

2 12

25

15 7 1214 1 312 26 15 11 2114 4 15 13 O 0:1 2716

Note, F. S. or the Fee Simple, is the Perpetuity.

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9. In purchafing a lease of a tenant, it is often expected that the purchaser should also buy the fixtures at a fair appraisement; in doing this, he fhould examine the leafe, and fee that he does not give money for those fixtures which belong to the house; for landlords will often fit up a house with every neceffary fixture, and put the tenant to no expence in this matter. But if the fixtures have been put up by the tenant, he has a liberty to remove or fell all fuch as are not fixed to the freehold.

Fixtures removeable are locks, bells, cifterns, grates fixed, coppers, dreffers, fhelves, counters, &c. Paper pafted to the wall, buildings erected, new windows, chimney-pieces, &c. or things to beautify the house, &c. and fixed to the freehold, muft go with the house, at the end of the term, and cannot be removed.

When goods or fixtures are appraised, the seller and the buyer each appoints one appraiser, and the price is fixed between them; if they cannot agree, a third is called in by the other two, and his decifion is final.— If fix or eight hours is taken up in this bufinefs, each appraiser expects a guinea for his trouble; if a few fixtures only are to be appraised, the appraiser will expect only half-a-guinea. However, if you employ him in removing your furniture, repairing it, &c. and you make a prior agreement with him, he will probably not charge you for the appraising of a few fixtures. Be careful to have an honeft man for an appraifer, for his voice has been known to have been bought over on the other fide. When goods are appraised to a buyer, a greater value is put upon them than they would fetch at a fale; and if immediately fold, they would not fetch the appraifed price by thirty per

cent.

10. In taking a houfe of its owner, take care that it is in thorough repair, and give a rent accordingly.

11. It is very dangerous to take unfurnished lodgings in London; for fhould the tenant of the house not pay his rent, your goods will be liable to be seized for it; fo will your carriage and horfes ftanding at livery, for the rent of the ftables, if that rent is in arrear. To avoid this, enquire into the circumftances of the A 3

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houfe-keeper, and if you cannot get the landlord of the house to give you an agreement in writing, that he will not feize your goods for any arrears that may become due by his tenant, afk to fee the landlord's receipt for the last half-year, before you pay your own rent.

12. Such house-keepers who have troublesome lodgers, may remove them, if they will not quit otherwise, by raifing the rent weekly upon them; and if they refufe to pay, fuing them for the fame; if the lodgings are furnished, and they do not pay, an opportunity may be taken, when the lodger and all perfons belonging to him are out of the apartments, to lock the door, and keep him from re-entering; if any thing is owing, any effects of the lodger may be detained.

13. If a tenant of an unfurnished house gives notice to his landlord to quit, and does not quit at the time given in fuch notice; or if he will not quit the premiles on a legal notice from his landlord, but holds poffeffion beyond his term, if the landlord has acquainted him in writing that he expects double rent for his fo doing, he is obliged to pay double the rent first agreed on. 11 Geo. 2. c. 19. s. 18. 4 Geo. 2. c. 28. í. 1.

If a tenant cannot be removed by any of these means, he must be ejected out by a course of law. Notice of warning must be in writing, directed to the

tenant.

14. It is a late determination of the courts, that if it be neceflary to give a tenant at will half-a-year's notice 10 quit, the faid notice must be given half-a-year before the expiration of his year; that is to fay, his year and the notice must expire at the fame time; for if the tenant enters upon another year, he may keep poffeffion the whole of that year, and no ejectment to put him out before will ftand good.

15. For every dwelling-houfe inhabited, rented from 51. to 201. the occupier muft pay 6 d. in the pound, 18 Geo. 3. c. 26. 19 Gco. 3. c. 59.

At 201. and upwards to any fum under 401. 9 d. in the pound. Ibid.

All at 401. and upwards, 1 s. in the pound. Ibid.

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