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ment to give effect to this motion ; Colonel Cotton- Jodrell 

 therefore introduced a short Bill, which was given facilities 

 for passing by the Government, and was placed on the Statute 

 Book in this year. 



At the same meeting a motion was agreed to that the counter- 

 claims of landlords under the 1883 Act should be scheduled, 

 while another motion urging that an occupier wishing to lay 

 down permanent pasture should be entitled to do so on giving 

 notice to the landlord, was negatived. In November the 

 Council resolved that the Act needed amendment by establish- 

 ing the relation of landlord and tenant for the purpose of 

 compensation as between a tenant for life occupying his own 

 land and the remainder man. 



1891. 



In May the Council resolved that home-grown corn, being 

 now so very much consumed, should, under proper safeguards, 

 be included in the third part of the schedule of the Agricul- 

 tural Holdings Act. 



In November it was agreed " That copyhold tenure has 

 ceased to serve any useful purpose, is injurious to industry, 

 and should be promptly extinguished or commuted on terms 

 equitable to landlord and tenant." 



1892. 



Mr. F. A. Channing (afterwards Lord Channing) intro- 

 duced a Bill to amend the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1883, 

 which the Council considered in April ; it resolved, after 

 hearing Mr. Channing's explanation of the measure, that, 

 while thinking it equitable in some of its provisions, they were 

 unable to approve of it in its entirety. 



In May it was resolved that it is desirable that every facility 

 should be given for the voluntary sale and purchase of manorial 

 rights. 



At the great National Agricultural Conference, held in 

 December, the following resolution was adopted : 



" That the laws regulating the tenure of land require amend- 

 ment so as to provide (i.) an absolute and indefeasible right of 



