AVhilst very reasonable terms will now be accepted to induce the Copyholders to avail themselves of the present opportunity to effect enfranchisements, the Lord of the Manor directs us to inform the Copyholders that he requires all Leases and dealings by the Owners with their Copyhold Tenements to be made in strict conformity with the Act of Parliament regulating the Customs of the Manor ; and this notification is rendered the more necessary because Leases have heretofore frequently been made and executed by Tenants of the ilanor in violation of the Custom regulating the mode of leasing, and because a Lease of Copyhold properly by the Owner made contrary to the Custom occasions an absolute forfeiture to the Lord of the property so leased.

Among the objections to Copyhold property which will be got rid of by Enfranchisement may be enumerated the following :

1. The risk of forfeiture of the property by reason of ignorance in granting Leases contrary to the Custom.--

2. The expence of the perpetually recurringStewarda' fees payable on every occasion of dealing by Sale or Mortgage with the Copyhold property. --

3. The like expence of Stewards' fees payable on the death of every Owner of Copyhold property, for the admittance of his heir or devisee. --

4. The exjience and inconvenience, frequently oc-

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casioned, to the Wife of a Copyholder, of having to travel from a distance to make in person a surrender of property sold or mortgaged by her Husband. --