68 GREAT BRITAIN - AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY IN GENERAL 



" i) In respect of what land, if any, specified in the scheme, one or more 

 holdings for new holders ma}- respectively be constiti^ted, and up to what 

 date the power to constitute them otherwise than by agreement may be 

 exercised ; 



" 2) What is the fair rent for each new holding; 



" 3) What land, if any, specified in the scheme is to be excluded there- 

 from ; and 



" 4) Whatever else may be necessary for the purpose of making the 

 scheme effective, and of adjusting the rights of all parties interested in or 

 affected by the scheme. 



From the time the Act of 1911 come into force tmtil the end of 1915 the 

 court authorized altogether the constitution of 693 new holdings, including 

 22,946 acres of arable and 4,620 acres of pasture land, and 49,577 acres of 

 common pasture. The total rents fixed for these holdings amount to £12,430 

 a year, or an average of nearly £18 each. 



In 1915 schemes were authorized for the constitution of 197 new hold- 

 ings ; but at the same time schemes for 32 new holdings, authorized both in 

 this and in previous 3^ears, were abandoned, mainly in consequence of the 

 serious liabilities incurred in connection with arbitrations. The new hold- 

 ings in which tenants were actually registered in 1915, as the outcome 

 of schemes authorized in this and other years, numbered 176. They were 

 distributed as follows : 



It will be seen that the largest number of new holdings were in the 

 crofting counties. Of those in Argyll seven were on the island of Mull, and all 

 the 256 acres of common pasture mentioned in the table were appurtenant 



