LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS 259 



a tenancy, or requiring a higher rent or more onerous 

 conditions as terms of such renewal." 



The second reading of this Bill was carried on May 

 15th, 1895, by 218 to 189, but owing to the dissolution, 

 the Committee stage of the Bill was not reached. 



At the meeting of the Central and Associated 

 Chambers on May 28th, a resolution in support of the 

 Bill was carried without dissent, after an amendment 

 restricting approval rigidly to those points which were 

 covered by the report of the Committee of the Central 

 Chamber had been rejected on a division. 



In 1896, Mr Robert Price introduced a Bill com- 

 bining most of the proposals of the Agricultural Hold- 

 ings Bill, 1894, with the scheme, which has since been 

 very fully laid before Parliament in the Welsh Land 

 Commission Report, to appoint agricultural registrars 

 or assessors to the county courts, and making the 

 county court, through this additional " agricultural county 

 court judge" the instrument for arbitrating on all 

 questions of dispute between landlord and tenant, in- 

 cluding rent. The term fixed as the period for a judicial 

 rent to run was three years. 



The Agricultural Holdings Bill, 1897, which contains 

 in the form of legislative proposals the recommendations 

 made in this Report, is printed in Appendix H to this 

 Report. 



It will be seen that Mr Price's suggestion, in a modi- 

 fied and simpler form, is adopted in clauses 25, 20, etc. 

 of the Bill, while the principles of the Market Gardeners' 

 Compensation Act, 1895, ^^^ applied to all holdings. 

 The procedure is further simplified by omitting the 

 " notices " of claims altogether, and complete freedom 

 to make improvements is given, subject to giving notice 

 in the case of some permanent improvements. 



