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in which less than 40 acres were under cultivation, instead of 25 acres as at 

 present. They proposed also to add to these categories two others — 

 namely holdings of not more than 640 acres of land of any owner or occu- 

 pant, of which one fourth or more were under cultivation ; and holdings of like 

 extent of which one half or more were under cultivation — and proposed 

 further that land in these two additional categories might be withdrawn 

 for three years. 



They proposed to render it necessary to give notice of damage incurred 

 by a crop to the secretary of the Commission within three days of the fall 

 of hail, instead of within five days as at present. 



They proposed that the Act should be administered b}" a board of nine 

 directors who should be elected by the annual meeting of the reeves of the 

 municipalities under the Act, nine to be elected by the first meeting and 

 thereafter three each year. 



Finally they proposed that the government should be asked to provide 

 that all rural municipahties which did not submit a repeaUng b^^-law, upon 

 a petition signed by fifty resident ratepayers, and did not approve such by- 

 law before a date in 1917 yet to be fixed, should automatically remain under 

 the amended Act. 



In presenting their report to the municipalities the committee stated 

 that they intended to meet again before the amending legislation was 

 enacted, and expressed themselves ready to receive suggestions made 

 after the report had been considered in the municipal councils or the 

 annual ratepayers' meetings. 



