160 ENGLISH WOODLANDS 



If the land in its natural and unimproved 

 state would have an enhanced value from the 

 presence of game, such enhanced value may be 

 taken into account in the assessment of it 

 (Eyton V. Overseers of Mold, 1880, 6 Q.B.D. 13). 



Five shillings in the £ is a very usual figure 

 at which Assessment Committees assess the 

 rateable value of woodlands including the sport- 

 ing rights. Five shillings is almost always in 

 excess of the annual value of the land in its 

 natural and unimproved state. In very many 

 cases it is in excess of the annual rental that 

 can be obtained for the land and the trees on it. 



Land used for a plantation or a wood or 

 for the growth of saleable underwood, and not 

 subject to any right of common, is entitled to 

 the three-fourths exemptions conferred on wood- 

 lands for the general district rate made by an 

 urban district council and the rate for special 

 purposes made by a rural district council, under 

 §§ 211 and 212 of the Public Health Act, 1895. 

 Woodlands derive no benefit from the Agri- 

 cultural Act, 1896, 59 & 60 Vic. c. 16, and 

 are not entitled to the one-half exemption 

 given to " agricultural land." 



