TITHE 357 



On 27th February, 1912, a small deputation was received 

 by Mr. Rmiciman, which asked him to give legislative effect 

 to the proposals contained in this report ; but the President 

 of the Board of Agriculture would not do more than promise 

 to give it his careful consideration. 



The following January the Board replied to a letter from 

 the Central Chamber, that M there still appears to be consider- 

 able divergence of view among agriculturists as to the lines 

 upon which action is desired." 



On 1st April, 1913, the Council gave instructions for a Bill 

 to be drafted to give effect to the recommendations of their 

 report, and to be submitted to local Chambers. This was 

 done, and in the following December a motion was carried 

 generally approving of the Bill, although an amendment 

 opposing it met with a certain amount of support. 



Tithe. 



The Tithe Act, 1836, empowered the Commissioners to 

 form lands or any portion on which hops had been grown, 

 and market gardens, into districts, on which an extraordinary 

 tithe charge might be levied. The Tithe Act, 1860, empowered 

 the Commissioners to expand these districts beyond the 

 limits originally formed, and subjected these new districts 

 to the extraordinary charge imposed by the Act of 1836. In 

 1873 Mr. Vivian introduced his Tithe Commutation Acts 

 Amendment Bill, and consideration of this measure brought 

 this matter for the first time before the Chambers, at the May 

 Council meeting. It was then resolved that the present law 

 as to the chargeability of market gardens, &c., to tithe 

 required amendment, so that while not acting unjustly to 

 the tithe owner it should not discourage agriculture. This 

 Bill became an Act and rescinded the power of the Com- 

 missioners to charge extraordinary tithe in future upon newly 

 cultivated market gardens, when there was no extraordinary 

 tithe on the parish at the time of commutation, but this 

 limitation did not extend to hop gardens. 



In 1882 two Bills in draft were submitted to the Council for 

 consideration, viz., the Tithe Rent Charge Bill (Mr. Stanley 



