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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



[June 1896. 



Board of Agriculture. — Annual Report of Proceedings under 

 the Tithe Acts, the Copyhold Acts, the Inclosure Acts, the 

 Metropolitan Commons Act, the Drainage and Improve- 

 ment of Land Acts, the Universities and College Estates 

 Acts, the Glebe Lands Act, 1888, &c. t Sc., for the Year 1895. 

 [C— 8009.] Price 2d, 



Under the Tithe Acts the Board received in 1895 a total of 

 493 applications for redemption, besides 181 applications for 

 altered apportionments of rentcharge. 135 applications relating 

 to other branches of tithe business were also received. 



Under the Copyhold Acts, 275 enfranchisements were com- 

 pleted by the Board in 1 895, and proceedings in 248 other cases 

 had been commenced. Orders of exchange of lands were 

 confirmed in 31 cases in the year. 



The Board had under consideration two applications for pro- 

 visional orders under the Inclosure Acts, one being for the 

 regulation of Darwen Moor, Lancashire, and the other for the 

 regulation of Great Langdale Common in Westmorland. Four 

 provisional orders were confirmed by Parliament 



For the convenience of the public the Ordnance Survey maps 

 of Great Britain and Ireland on the scale of one inch to the 

 mile and those of Great Britain on the scale of six inches to the 

 mile are now kept at the offices of the Board at 3, St. James's 

 Square, S.W., and are available for inspection without charge. 



Upon both series of these maps the county and parish 

 boundaries are shown, and upon the six -inch scale maps the 

 boundaries of the Parliamentary and the various local government 

 districts are also marked. Upon another series of maps the 

 boundaries of petty sessional divisions are recorded. These will 

 also be revised as the information is received from the clerks of 

 the peace. 



Board of Agriculture. Diseases of Animals Act, 1894. Fur- 

 ther Papers and Correspondence relating to the Landing 

 in Great Britain from Canada of Cattle affected with 

 Pleuropneumonia. [C.-8025], Price 5d., and [C. -8050.] 

 Price l^d. 



These volumes are in continuation of Parliamentary Papers 

 C.-7123 and C.-7366 and C.-7496. They contain the official 

 correspondence that has been exchanged on the subject between 

 the 16th August 1894 and the 14th April 1896, and which 

 refers to a considerable extent to the prohibition of the importa- 

 tion of Canadian cattle into Belgium. 



Copies are printed of two despatches, and their enclosures, 

 from the Governor-General of Canada, criticising the grounds 

 upon which the Board of Agriculture arrived at their decision to 

 prohibit the importation of live cattle from Canada into this 

 country, except for slaughter at the port of landing. 



