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Small Holdings Act, 1892. {H.L. 192.] 

 The Board have recently issued a Return showing, from t(ie 

 introduction of the Small Holdings Act (1st October, 1892) 

 to the 31st December, 1902, the extent to which local authorities 

 utilised their powers under the Act for the acquisition of land. 



During this period of somewhat over ten years, eight county 

 councils in England and one in Scotland have acquired under 

 the Act land amounting in all to 653 acres. Of this area, 

 32 acres have since been relinquished, while 248 acres have been 

 sold and 373 acres let to small holders. The average cost per 

 acre of the purchase of land by the local authorities for the 

 purpose of small holdings, omitting the transactions in London, 

 varied from about £\\ in Ross and Cromarty and ,£23 in 

 Cambridgeshire to £70 in Devon, the average of the 449 acres 

 purchased being nearly £$6. An average amount of approxi- 

 mately £2 per acre has been spent by the county councils in the 

 adaptation of the land for small holdings. In two instances 

 the purchasers of small holdings have availed themselves of 

 the provisions of Part II. of the Act to obtain from the county 

 council an advance to enable them to purchase. 



Report of the Progress of the Ordnance Survey to March 31st, 

 1903. [Cd. 1688.] Price 4s. Sd. ' 

 The revision of the Cadastral Survey of England and Wales 

 on the 2 -^o scale, which was begun in 1894, has now been com- 

 pleted for the following counties, viz. : Anglesey, Bedford, Berks, 

 Bucks, Cambridge, Carnarvon, Chester, Cumberland, Denbigh, 

 Derby, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Flint, Glamorgan, Gloucester, 

 Hants, Hertford, Hunts, Kent, Leicester, London, Merioneth, 

 Middlesex, Monmouth, Montgomery, Northampton, Northum- 

 berland, Notts, Oxford, Salop, Stafford, Surrey, Sussex, West- 

 morland, and Wilts. The revision is still in progress for the 

 •counties of Brecknock, Devon, Hereford, Lincoln, Radnor, Rut- 

 land, Somerset, Suffolk, Warwick, Worcester, and York (West 



