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Parliamentary Publications. 



Universities and College Estates Acts were received by the 

 Board during the year 1901, for their consent to sales, 

 purchases and exchanges of property, to improvement loans 

 and to other transactions. The number of such applications 

 in 1900 was 130. The securities held by the Board ex parte 

 the different universities or colleges, amounted on Decem- 

 ber 31st, 1901, to £1,002,455 J 8s. iod. 



Ninety applications were made under the Glebe Lands Act, 

 1888, for the Board's approval of the sale of 1,754 acres. The 

 sales completed in the past year were 77 in number, com- 

 prising 1,393 acres, for which £71,144 was paid. The number 

 of applications under the Drainage and Improvement of 

 Land Acts was 238, and sanction was asked for expenditure 

 amounting to £301,317. 



Under Section 21 of the Light Railways Act of 1896 the 

 consent of the Board was given to taking of small portions of 

 certain common lands for the purpose of the Bury and Diss 

 Light Railway in Norfolk and Suffolk, and of the Orpington, 

 Cudham, and Tatsfield Light Railway in the counties of Ken t 

 and Surrey. The promoters respectively of the Pwllheli, 

 Nevin, and Porthudinlleyn Light Railway, Carnarvonshire, 

 and of the South Norfolk (Norwich to Loddon) Light Rail- 

 way, being desirous of obtaining a special advance from the 

 Treasury, applied to the Board for certificates as required 

 by Section 5 (1) of the Light Railways Act. The Board, after 

 due inquiries, were satisfied that the proposed railways would 

 benefit agriculture in their respective districts, but that 

 owing to the exceptional circumstances they would not be 

 constiucted without special assistance from the State, and 

 they gave their certificates accordingly. 



In 248 cases during the year 1901, as compared with 281 

 cases in 1 900, surveyors nominated by trustees were approved 

 by the Board under Section 26 of the Settled Land Act, 1882, 

 In one case, as compared with four cases in 1900, the Board 

 itself issued, in compliance with the alternative course, a 

 certificate as to the execution of improvements, and the 

 amount properly payable by the trustees of the settlement. 



The Agricultural Holdings Act, 1900, which came into 

 operation on January 1st, 1901, effected certain extensions of 



