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from the Council, to be repaid by instalments of 

 2 18s. Id. in fifty years. During this time also 

 petitions had been presented to twenty-seven County 

 Councils in England and Wales and fourteen coun- 

 ties in Scotland, but no land had been acquired. 

 Twenty-seven County Councils in England and 

 Wales and eighteen in Scotland had received no 

 petitions. 



Counting up the number of petitions out of a 

 total of 126 presented to forty-nine County Councils, 

 in the case of 14 land was acquired by nine County 

 Councils. 



RETURN OF 1895. 



