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18 Relief, competent to successive heirs, to the extent of one third part of the rents.S

Provided always, that the heir who next succeeds in the entailed estate to the proprietor who expended the money, under the authority of this Act, in making improvements upon the estate, and the heirs and successors of such heir, shall be bound to relieve all subsequent heirs of all or such parts of the debt, incurred by the improvement of the estate under the authority of this Act, as shall be paid by them, to the extent of one third part of the rents which have come to the use of such first succeeding heir, or to the use of his heirs or executors; and when the third part of the rents which have come to the use of the first succeeding heir, or to his heirs or executors, are exhausted, then the next succeeding heir, and his heirs and successors, shall in like manner be bound to relieve all subsequent heirs, to the extent of one third part of the rents which have come to their use; and relief shall in like manner be competent to every succeeding heir who shall pay, against the heirs and successors of the preceding heir.