4/8 HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



history, petitioned the House of Commons to pass a bill 

 entitling the officers on the survey to enter upon lands and 

 make such measurements and fix such objects as they 

 might find requisite for the survey. This bill was passed 

 into law in the course of the same session. At a later 

 period in the same year, the Society had again to petition 

 the House that the scale of the maps should not be less 

 than six inches. In 1843, the Society addressed a memorial 

 to the Treasury setting forth that, out of ^^"78,000 voted for 

 the survey of Great Britain for 1841, only ;!^6ooo had been 

 allotted to Scotland, of which only £26ys had been ex- 

 pended, and that consequently the survey there had almost 

 been stopped. In 1846, the Society again memorialised 

 the Treasury, stating that a strong feeling was entertained 

 by the public that justice had not been accorded to Scot- 

 land in the mattter, as it appeared from a Government 

 return that, out of ^29,000 allotted for the purposes of the 

 Scotch Survey for the three preceding years, only ;^ 14,802 

 had been expended — the balance of above ;^ 14,000 having 

 been diverted to cover an excess of expenditure on the 

 English Survey. 



In 185 1, 1853, 1854, and 1855, the Society was in 

 communication with the Treasury or the Chancellor of the 

 Exchequer in regard to the Scale and other matters. In 

 1874, the Society sent a memorial to Her Majesty's Com- 

 missioners of Works, praying that part of the Scotch 

 Survey, not yet completed, might be carried on with vigour 

 and expedition. In 1875, the Society memorialised, and 

 an influential deputation waited on the First Commissioner 

 of Her Majesty's Works with reference to the completion 

 of the survey on the 25-inch scale. On that occasion, Mr 

 Dundas of Arniston earnestly appealed for a portion of the 

 grant being applied to the publication of the 2 5 -inch map 

 for the five counties above enumerated. 



In 1875, a Standing Committee was appointed to 

 watch over the progress of the survey in Scotland. Of 

 this Commitee, Mr Dundas of Arniston (Convener of the 

 County of Edinburgh), was at the same time appointed 

 Chairman. 



