March 1895.] 



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Report from the Select Committee on Land Acts (Ireland),, 

 together with the proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of 

 Evidence, ■ Appendix, and Index. [H.C. 310.] Frice 

 7s. 3d 



This publication contains the Report of the Select Committee 

 appointed to inquire and report upon the principles and practice 

 of the Irish Land Commissioners and County Court Judges in 

 carrying out the fair rent and free sale provisions of the Land 

 Acts of 1870, 1881, and 1887, and of the Redemption of Rent 

 Act of 1891, and to suggest such improvements in law or 

 practice as they may deem to be desirable. 



Weights and Measures. Report by the Board of Trade on their 

 Proceedings and Business under the Weights and Measures 

 Acts, 1878 and 1889. [H.C.-254.] Price 2^d. 



This report is made under the 33rd section of the Weights 

 and Measures Act, 1878, and contains, inter alia, a list of 

 counties, cities, and boroughs, for which local standards have 

 been verified or re-verified by the Board of Trade, or locally 

 compared, during the twelve months ending 2nd August 1894 ; 

 of the local authorities who have made general regulations for 

 the guidance of their Inspectors of Weights and Measures ; 

 and of the inspectors authorised since 3rd August 1893 to adjust 

 weights and measures in pursuance of the 12th section of the 

 Weights and Measures Act, 1889. 



It is stated in the report that from a Bulletin (No. 26, dated 

 5th April 1893), issued by the United States Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey, Washington, with the approval of the Secretary of the 

 United States Treasury, in future the " International Prototype 

 Metre and Kilogramme " (deposited at Paris) will be regarded in 

 the United States as the fundamental standards of "Length and 

 Mass,"" and that the Yard and Pound in America will be derived 

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Congested Districts Board for Ireland, Third Report of the 

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This report relates to the first three months of the year only 

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The agricultural section of the report contains information, 

 relating to the occupiers of small holdings in various districts, 

 and to the administration of the French estate in county 

 Gal way. 



A few tons of seed oats purchased in Scotland were sold to 

 small occupiers of land in the Kilcrohane district, county Cork^ 



