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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



[March 1895 



wheat meal and flour, barley, oats, and maize. Appendix C 

 contains a statement showing the number of persons engaged 

 in agricultural occupations in Great Britain according to the 

 Census Returns of 1871, 1881, and 1891. Appendix D. gives 

 an account of the gross assessments under Schedules A., B., and 

 D., in each county of Great Britain for each of the years 

 1874-75, 1879-80, and 1892-93. Appendix E. is a statement 

 showing the rates of freight on certain articles at various dates. 



Woods and Forests. The Seventy -second Report of the Commis- ' 

 sioners of Her Majesty\s Woods, Forests, and Land 

 Bevenues, in obedience to the Acts of 10 Geo. IV. (Cap. 50), 

 and 2. Will IV. {Gap. 1) ; being the Forty -third Rep)ort 

 binder the Act of the 14 & 15 Vict {Gap. 42.) [H.C. 194.] 

 Price Is. b\d. 



This volume contains the Forty-third Report of the Com- 

 missioner in charge of the land revenues of the Crown in 

 England, under a warrant of the Lords Commissioners of Her 

 Majesty's Treasury, dated 13th November 1893. 



It relates to the Crown estates, which include (1.) Windsor 

 Great Park, and certain property in the neighbourhood ; and (2.) 

 various manors, messuages, land, fee-farm rents, &c., in various 

 parts of England. 



The property described under the first head consists of more 

 than 14,000 acres, of which about 2,650 (including about 800 

 acres used in connexion with the Forest Classes held at Cooper's 

 Hill College) are let to tenants, and the remainder is in hand, 

 being either planted and under the growth of timber, heathland, 

 or pasture in the park. 



Under the second head, are included about 70,000 acres of land 

 appropriated to agricultural purposes, of which about 2,487 

 acres remain in hand for want of suitable tenants, viz., a farm 

 consisting of 323 4 acres in Bedfordshire ; two farms comprising 

 together 1,027J acres in Oxfordshire ; a tract of grass land 

 containing 357 acres at Wingland, in Lincolnshire ; another area 

 of grass land of about 207 acres in the Isle of Sheppey, in Kent ; 

 and a farm comprising about 572 acres in Suffolk. 



The report contains numerous appendices and a copious 

 .index. 



