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II. 



Legislative provisions and measures taken by the State for 



promoting agricultural production. 

 Information regarding Ministries and Departments of Agriculture. 



The Agricultural Holdings Act 1908. (The Journal of the Board 

 of Agriculture, Vol. XVI, n. 2, 113-117, London, May, 1909), 



This Act (8 Edw. VII. Ch. 28), which came into operation on 

 January ist, 1909, is an Act " to consolidate the enactments re- 

 lating to agricultural holdings in England and Wales. " For that 

 purpose it repeals and reproduces those enactments, which were 

 contained in the Agricultural Holdings Acts of 1883, and 1900, the 

 Tenants' Compensation Act, 1890, and the Market Gardeners' Com- 

 pensation Act, 1895. But, although the new Act is a purely con- 

 solidating statute, it may be desirable to call attention to such of 

 its provisions as reproduce those of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 

 1906, more directly bearing upon agricultural practice, inasmuch as 

 the date of the commencement of that Act was therein expressed 

 to be the ist day of January, 1909, so that its provisions came 

 into operation for the first time under the new Act. 



SECTION i. Compensation for Improvements. This reproduces 

 the corresponding Section of the Act of 1900, with the omission 

 of the proviso as to " the inherent capabilities of the soil, " and 

 to that extent alters the law. 



SECTION 10. Compensation for Damage by Game. Where the 

 tenant has sustained damage to his crops from game, and the right 

 to kill and take it is not vested in him nor in anyone claiming 

 under him other than the landlord, and he has not permission to 

 kill it, he is, subject to certain conditions, entitled to compensation 

 from his landlord for such damage, if it exceeds in amount one 

 shilling per acre of the area over which the damage extends ; and 

 any agreement to the contrary, or in limitation of such com- 

 pensation, is void. . In default of agreement (made after the damage 

 has been suffered) as to the amount of compensation, it is to be 

 determined by arbitration 



