1905.] 



A Conifer Disease. 



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wardens and Overseers of the Parish of Briercliffe with. 

 Entwistle" (L.R. 1895 A.C. 32). 



Upon the reasoning adopted in that case, it would seem to 

 be arguable that the occupiers would be rateable on the higher 

 scale. But it is possible that a further judicial decision may be 

 needed to settle the doubt. 



Where the Public Libraries Act, 1892, is in force in a rural 

 parish the rate levied to meet the expenses of the library 

 authority is raised by the overseers with and as part of the 

 Poor Rate, but a person assessed in respect of woodlands to the 

 Public Library Rate is entitled to an allowance of two-thirds of 

 the sum assessed upon him (55 and 56 Vict., c. 53, s. 18). 



The expenses of County Councils, School Boards, and the 

 expenses of Rural District Councils chargeable as general 

 expenses under Section 229 of the Public Health Act, 1875, 

 Section 29 of the Local Government Act, 1894, or any other 

 Act, are usually defrayed out of the Poor Rate, but where part 

 only of a parish is liable to be assessed to meet any of these 

 expenses, a separate rate may be levied by the overseers over 

 the area liable. 



A separate Borough Rate and a Watch Rate may also be 

 levied in some instances by Town Councils of boroughs, and 

 separate Highway Rates are also raised in some boroughs 

 and urban districts. 



In the absence of any special provision on the subject in 

 a local Act, an occupier of woodlands would be liable to pay 

 any of the separate rates above referred to, like the Poor 

 Rate, in full. 



Quite recently a batch of diseased spruce seedlings was sent to- 

 the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, from upland Yorkshire, accom- 

 panied by a statement that the disease was 

 A Conifer Disease, most prevalent at the crowded end of the 

 seed-bed ; the portion where the plants were 

 not so crowded appeared to be fairly free from it. Examination 

 showed the disease to be caused by a fungus called Herpotrichia 



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