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the improvements for which an outgoing tenant may claim 

 compensation, simplified the arbitration procedure of the 

 earlier Acts, and enabled all claims as between landlord and 

 tenant with respect to the tenancy, whether under the Act or 

 not, to be settled in one and the same proceeding. Under 

 the new Act, which applies to Scotland as well as to England, 

 umpires were appointed by the Board during the year 1901 

 in England in seven cases, and single arbitrators in seventeen 

 cases. In Scotland an oversman was appointed in one case 

 and arbiters in five cases. The Board also extended the time 

 for making the award in sixty-three cases in England, and in 

 nine in Scotland. Previous to 1901, under the older Acts in 

 cases arising in England, 213 umpires were appointed. 



Brewers Licences. [H.C.71, 1902.] Price i\d. 



The number of persons or firms licensed as brewers for 

 sale in the United Kingdom in the year ended 30th Septem- 

 ber 1901, was 5,968. Of these, 2,905, producing 3,337,464 

 bulk barrels of beer, used malt only ; but among these there 

 was only one large firm. 3,063 brewers used malt and 

 malt substitutes, and produced 33,880,416 bulk barrels of 

 beer. The total quantity of materials used in the production 

 ■of the 37,217,880 barrels of beer was 56,577,059 bushels of 

 malt, 165,127 bushels of unmalted corn, 1,323,754 cwts. of rice, 

 rice grits, flaked rice or maize, maize grits and similar pre- 

 parations, 2,858,912 cwts. ot sugar (including its equivalent 

 of syrups, glucose, and saccharum). The amount ot beer 

 duty charged was £14,052,844. 



Agricultural Statistics, Ireland, 1901. Cd. 1057. Price is. $d. 



This publication contains returns ot the prices of certain 

 classes of agricultural products and live stock in Ireland 



