land agent

The duties of an Irish land agent comprise a great deal of office work, drawing up agreements with tenants, receiving rent, superintending agricultural and all landlords' improvements, sitting as magistrate and representing the landlord when the latter is absent at poor-law meetings, road sessions, and on grand juries.

He held the office as resident land agent of the Holland Land Company for twenty-one years. In this capacity he laid out the city of New Amsterdam, now Buffalo, gave its streets the jaw-breaking names of the Dutch proprietors and made it a flourishing town.

The importance of appearing in this Directory is so evident to every land agent and attorney that we will discuss the matter no further.

By these papers you will learn that the Hon. Rufus McIntire, while engaged in the service of this State as land agent, in endeavoring to expel from lands bordering on the Aroostook river, in this State, a body of armed men, principally from the British provinces, who were engaged in cutting the timber, in defiance of the authorities of this State, has been seized, with Gustavus G. Cushman and Thomas Bartlett, Esquires, who were aiding the land agent in this service, and have been transported to Frederickton, the capital of New Brunswick.

On January 10, 1951, a land agent of the plaintiff called at the home of the defendants and requested of Mrs. Bancroft permission to enter' upon the land to make a survey for location of a pipe line.