1922.] 



REDEMrTiON OF TiTiTE Rentcharge. 947 



In the majority of instances the Committees have confined 

 their recommendations to adult male workers, and have not so 

 far dealt with the question of v^ages for workers under 21, 

 which for the time being are left to be settled by mutual 

 agreement between worker and employer. In the following 

 areas, however, the Committees have agreed on rates for juvenile 

 male workers : — Cornwall, Cumberland and Westmorland, 

 Devon, Durham, Isle of Ely, Hertfordshire, Kent, Leicester — 

 Bosworth Ashby, Melton Mowbray, Market Har borough, 

 Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Soke of Peterborough, 

 Shropshire, Somerset, Warwick, Yorkshire — North and East 

 Ridings, while in the following areas rates have been agreed on 

 for certain classes of female workers : — Cumberland and West- 

 morland, Devon, Durham, Hertfordshire, Kent, Nottingham- 

 shire, Yorkshire — East Riding. It should be mentioned that 

 in several of these areas the agreements having been made for 

 ^comparatively short periods have now lapsed. 



The principle of fixing valuations for the provision of " allow- 

 ^mces " made by employers to workers as part payment of 

 wages has been adopted by certain of the Conciliation Com- 

 mittees. In Wales where the " living in " practice widely 

 applies the Committees seem especially to favour this course 

 and have in almost every case fixed a value for board and 

 lodging. A cottage valuation has also been adopted by several 

 <3ommittees. 



It frequently happens that landowners who desire to redeem 

 the tithe rentcharge charged on their properties experience con- 



' , .. « siderable difficulty in ascertaining the exact 

 Redemption of ^. ^ ^ u % 1.-1. 



Tithe Rentchar e • ^^^^^^ trthe rentcharge to ^Yhlch 



Search Char es ' ^^^^^ lands are legally liable. In some cases 

 ® * the statutory parish copies of the tithe 

 apportionment and map have been damaged or lost. In other 

 instances the property in respect of w^hich redemption is 

 desired may extend into a number of different parishes, town- 

 ships, hamlets or tithings, for each of which there is a separate 

 tithe apportionment and map, so that the landowner who 

 obtains, locally, particulars of the tithe rentcharge on his pro- 

 perty, may be put to the trouble and expense of searching 

 documents deposited at a number of different places in the 

 custody of a number of different people. 



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