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1. Cost of report and valuation in respect of any land, the acquisition of which is 

 under consideration by the Council. 



2. Cost of proceedings for obtaining a compulsory order. 



3. Arbitration expenses in cases of compulsory purchase. 



4. Valuation expenses in cases of compulsory hiring. 



5. Conveyancing expenses. 



6. Cost of registration of title. 



I am to add that your Council will observe that the first item mentioned above 

 covers cases where the land under consideration is not eventually acquired. 



I am, etc., 



T. H. Elliott, Secretary. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, in pursuance of Section 17 of the 

 Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1907, and with the approval of the Lords 

 Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, hereby make 



Regulations under the the followin g Regulations :- 



m 1. The Board will, subject to these Regulations, 



Small Holdings and re pay to a County Council or the Council of a County 

 Allotments Act, 1907. Borough the whole of the expenses which in the opinion 

 of the Board have been necessarily or reasonably 

 incurred by the Council in proceedings in relation to the 

 acquisition by the Council of land for small holdings, including any allowance to any 

 officer of the Council for work done in relation to such acquisition. [See s. 4 (4) of 

 Small Holdings Act, 1892.] 



2. An application for repayment shall be signed by the County Treasurer and 

 countersigned by the Clerk of tl e Council, and shall state that an order for payment 

 of the sums therein mentioned has been duly made by the Council on the recommenda- 

 tion of the Finance Committee, if any, of the Council. 



3. An application shall contain, or be accompanied by, such particulars of the 

 expenses as will enable the Board to decide as to whether they have been necessarily 

 pr reasonably incurred, and any further particulars required by the Board shall be 

 furnished by the Council. 



4. Except under circumstances which in the opinion of the Board are exceptional 

 and with the approval of the Treasury, the Board will not repay — 



(1) expenses of registration ot the Council as proprietors with an absolute title ; 



[See Land Transfer Act, 1897, s. 19.] 



(2) expenses of litigation incurred without the previous consent of the Board, or in 

 excess of any limit expressed in such consent. 



5. No purchase money or rent, nor any compensation payable under the said Act, 

 will be repaid by the Board to a Council under these Regulations. 



6. These Regulations apply only to expenses incurred since the fii'St day of 

 January, nineteen hundred and eight. 



In witness whereof the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries have hereunto affixed their 

 Official Seal this eighteenth day of 

 March, nineteen hundred and eight. 



T. H. Elliott, 



Secretary. 



Joseph A. Pease, 

 J. Herbert Lewis, 

 Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury. 



