And so it is,the aforesaid erstwhile landlords of your orators are conten- ding for one construction and effect of said contract and definition of the respective rights thereunder, and your orators are advised believe and aver that an entirely different interpretation and definition thereof is the cor- reot one. If your orators are so liable to the said lessors after their vaca- tion of the property,as aforesaid, they ave willing to discharge the sane and pay said liability ; on the other hand, if, as they are advised, they had the right to terminate said tenancy either as a tenancy at sufferance or 2 tenancy from year to year, they desire to have the same so established, and all questions in regard thereto between your orators and said lessors, quieted by the judgent of a court of equity. Your orators further shew unto your Honor that only one month and a few days have elapsed since your orators and their said associates vacated said fall ée., as aforesaid, and an inspection of said duplicate of said contract retained by your orators’as aforesaid and herewith filed as Exhibit 4, ill show your Honor that i provided that your orators and their said associates aight eleot whether the annual rent therein contracted to be vaid by then, should be paid quarterly or monthly ¢ 80 that your orators and their said associates are advised, believe and aver that in the most unfavorable light to them in which the matters herein complained of oan be viewed, and in the event that it is held by the court to be true that your orators and their said assooiates could not lawfully terminate said tenanoy in the aanner in which they have undertaken to terminate it, and are therefore still liable to the said Lessors under said contract, the said Lessors gould nake no denand upon your orators for rents accrued and accruing sinoe the aforesaid vacation of said property, until the end of one quarter of a year from Novenber 1st 1896, the date of such vacation of said property. Yet the said Gunt- ner, Blackburn and Bawson,on behalf of thesselves aad their associates are demand~ ing of your orators payments on said olaia of rent and tenancy at the end of every aonth, and have prodused and exhibited to your orators the duplicate of said contract retained by thea and mhich has been in their possession ever sinoe ite exeoution,4n support of their said demand, in which the language thereof has been so materially altered since its exeoution by both the parties thereto, as