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issue execution for costs as aforesaid, within ten days after the
end of said court.

6. The provisions of the preceding sections shall apply to all
cases of tenancies from year to year; Provided, a notice of six
months, in writing, shall be given by the landlord or his agent, or
representatives, to the tenants, before the expiration of the cur-
rent year.

7. When the tenant shall give notice by parol, to the land-
lord, or to his agent or representatives, at least one month
before the expiration of the lease or tenancy, in all cases except
in cases of tenancies from year to year, and at least six months'
notice in all cases of tenancy from year to year, of the intention
of such tenant to remove at the end of that year, and to sur-
render possession of the tenement at that time; and the land-
lord, his agent, or representative, shall prove said notice from
the tenant by legal and competent testimony; it shall not be
necessary for the said landlord, his agent, or representative, to
prove a written notice to the tenant, but the proof of such notice
from the tenant as aforesaid, shall entitle his landlord to recover
possession of said tenement under the provisions of this article.

DISTRESS FOR RENT.

8. Every landlord, or his agent, who may be authorized to
distrain for rent due him, shall, previous to making such dis-
tress, make oath before some justice of the peace of the county
where the premises lie, or where the landlord or his agent may
reside, that his tenant is justly and bona fide indebted to him in
the sum of ———— dollars and ———— cents; specifying the
amount which the said landlord may claim to be due in dollars
and cents, where the distress is for a certain money rent; or
that he is justly and bona fide entitled to the quantity or pro-
portion of the produce claimed by the said landlord, when the
distress is for grain or produce, for rent in arrear and already
due to him, the said landlord, and that he, the said landlord,
hath not received, directly or indirectly, any part or parcel of
said rent claimed to be due and in arrear except (if any) the
credits given, to the best of his knowledge and belief.

9 To every warrant authorizing any bailiff to levy a distress
for rent, there shall be prefixed or annexed the account of such
landlord, stating in dollars and cents the amount of rent claimed