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AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION 



No appeal on 

 facts. 



Parish valuers 

 for allotments. 



Abolition of 



the law of dis- 

 tress. 



Freedom of 

 cropping and 



sale. 



Omission of 

 proviso in s. l 

 Act 1883. 



Extension as 

 to tenancies. 



Protection to 

 tenants of 

 mortgaged 

 holdings. 



Extension of 

 Act to matters 

 under customs 

 or agreement. 



Board of Agriculture, and the Board shall fix the 

 area of jurisdiction of each arbitrator and, with the 

 assent of the Treasury, the remuneration to be paid 

 to him by the Treasury. 



(10.) With the object of reducing expense, no appeal on 

 the facts or valuation is allowed, but an appeal will 

 lie to the county court judge on any question of law. 



(11.) For the settlement of compensation in respect of 

 allotments or of holdings of less than ten acres, 

 special parish valuers are to be appointed, with 

 reduced scale of fees. References may be made 

 by the county or parish valuers as the tenant may 

 prefer. 



(12.) The right to distrain for rent is abolished. 



(13.) Freedom of cropping and of selling off produce 

 from the holding is given to the tenant where an 

 adequate return of manures has been or is to be made 

 to the holding. {See section 53.) 



(14.) The proviso in section i, "that in estimating 

 "the value of any improvement there shall not be 

 " taken into account as part of the improvement 

 '' made by the tenant what is justly due to the 

 " inherent capabilities of the soil," is omitted. {See 

 section i.) 



(15.) The provisions of the Act of 1883 are extended 

 to agricultural holdings held for a shorter period than 

 one year, and to allotments and cottage gardens not 

 previously included under the Act. {See section 46 

 (2), and observe addition of words " or for any other 

 period" in section 55, paragraph 2.) 



(16.) The Tenants' Compensation Act, 1890, giving pro- 

 tection to the tenants of mortgaged holdings, is em- 

 bodied in this Bill with amendments rendering the 

 recovery of compensation by the tenant more simple, 

 and omitting the special protection to tithe (section 

 40) ; also recovery of compensation by the tenant is 

 rendered more simple where the landlord is a trustee, 

 etc. (section 30). 



(17.) The tenant will be enabled to claim and recover 

 under the Act compensation for all matters or things 

 for which he is entitled to claim compensation either 

 under the custom of the country or under any special 

 agreement. {See Farquharson v. Morgan.) 



