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in respect of copyhold business during the financial year 

 1900-1901 was ,£1,063 5 s - 



Two redemptions of perpetual rents or annual charges were 

 effected under Section 45 of the Conveyancing and Law of 

 Property Act during the year 1901, making a total of twenty- 

 two transactions under this statute in the twenty years 

 during which it has been in operation. 



Under the Inclosure Acts Provisional Orders were con- 

 firmed by Parliament for the enclosure of two open fields 

 and the heath and wastes ot 610 acres, all in the parish of 

 Sutton, Northants, and the regulation of the common, 826 

 acres, and the enclosure of the open fields, 321 acres, in the 

 parish of Skipwith, Yorks. (East Riding). Schemes under 

 Part I. of the Commons Act, 1899, for the regulation and 

 management of commons with a view to their conservation 

 as open spaces, were made by the District Councils concerned, 

 and approved by the Board in the following cases : viz., St* 

 Asaph, Langle, Church Green, Woolston and Quantock, 

 Alkerton Green, Broadmoor (Woolhope), Tettenhall Greens, 

 Pilsley Green, Park House Green, Portland Little. Reports 

 were called for in 1901, under Section 28 of the Commons 

 Act, 1876, with respect to field garden and recreation ground 

 allotments set out under the Inclosure Acts. The reports 

 received with regard to held gardens numbered 348 ; in 277 

 of these casss the land was let for gardens to persons of the 

 labouring class. The rents for the most part ranged from 

 i|d. per perch (equal to 20s. per acre) to 3d. per perch (40s. 

 per acre). In several instances rents below ijd. per perch 

 are taken, but a higher rent than 3d. per perch is rare. 



Two schemes under the Metropolitan Commons Act 

 relating respectively to Orpington Commons, Kent, and to 

 Ham Common, Surrey, certified by the Board in 1900, the 

 details of which were published in the last Annual Report, 

 were confirmed by Parliament in the Session of 1901. 

 Orpington Commons are now under the control of the Parish 

 Council, and Ham Common under the control of conservators 

 appointed by the lord of the manor and the Urban District 

 Council of Ham. 



One hundred and seventy-six applications under the 



