188 LAND TENURE 



Thirty years have passed since these words were written, 

 and time has proved the wisdom and truth of Mr. Lipscomb's 

 policy and letter. 



1887. 



On 1st March resolutions were received from eighteen 

 local Chambers approving a private member's Bill proposing 

 a close time for hares, and the Council endorsed this approval 

 of the Bill. The measure did not pass, and in June, 1888, the 

 Council again adopted a motion in favour of a new Bill by a 

 considerable majority. A similar resolution was adopted in 

 1891 in favour of Colonel Dawnay's Bill, but none of these 

 measures reached the Statute Book. 



In 1892 Colonel Dawnay introduced a further Bill, which 

 received the Royal Assent on 20th May. Of this a report 

 from the Parliamentary Committee, presented on 5th April, 

 said : ' The Bill was found to be so materially modified 

 since last year that it aroused no opposition." It merely 

 prohibited the sale or exposure for sale of any but foreign 

 hares during the months March to July, both inclusive. 



1889. 



On 26th March the attention of the Council was called to 

 a case where compensation to a tenant under the Act of 1883 

 was forfeited owing to the entrance of a mortgagee into posses- 

 sion of the land. It was unanimously resolved that the Act 

 required such amendment as would make tenant's compen- 

 sation a first charge on the holding. 



At the June meeting the Council, with only one dissentient, 

 expressed disapproval of an Agricultural Tenants' Improve- 

 ment Bill, introduced by Mr. Seale Hayne, which proposed 

 several amendments to the Act. 



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At the May meeting Colonel Cotton- Jodrell, M.P., raised 

 the question of the position of tenants of mortgaged land, 

 and a similar resolution to that of last year was passed. It 

 was also urged that a Bill should be introduced into Parlia- 



