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Parliamentary Publications. 



attention has been frequently drawn in previous reports, is 

 again emphasised. 



It is stated that the issue of the volume has been some- 

 what delayed in the hope that the important results of the 

 Agricultural portion of the Twelfth Census of the United 

 States with full official confirmation might be included in the 

 tables, but this was not found possible. The figures for 

 livestock as issued by the Chief Statistician for Agriculture 

 (which are given on page 56 of this Journal), are, however, 

 summarised, although Major Craigie suggests that caution 

 must be exercised, until fuller information is available, in 

 drawing deductions from them and especially in comparing 

 them with the results of previous enquiries. 



Board of Agriculture — Annual Report of Proceedings under the 

 Tithe and other Acts for the year 1901. (Cd. 1040.) 

 Price 2d. 



The total number of applications to the Board under the 

 various Tithes Acts was 1,142 in 1901, as compared with 994 

 in 1900. The increase occurred in the two main divisions of 

 the work, namely, altered apportionments and redemptions 

 of tithe rent charge. The total sum paid over for the 

 redemption of tithe rent charges is now shown by the 

 summary of transactions from 1838 to 1901 inclusive, to have 

 exceeded one million sterling. That capital sum, however, 

 represents only ^41,141 of apportioned rent charge, being 

 rather more than 1 per cent, of the total rent charge 

 apportioned in England and Wales. 



The total number of enfranchisements completed by the 

 Board in 1901 under the Cooyhold Act was 293, as compared 

 with 351 in 1900, 220 being under the compulsory and 73 

 under the voluntary provisions of the Act. The total con- 

 sideration for these enfranchisements by way of capital pay- 

 ments was ^19,290 9s. iod, and by way of annual rent 

 charges ,£80 8s. 9d. The amount of the official fees received 



