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(g.) That similar licence duties be levied in Scotland 

 and Ireland. 



VIII. — That the extraordinary traffic clause (41 & 42 Vict, 

 c. 77. s. 23) should be amended as follows : — 



(a.) The time for the recovery of expenses to be limited 

 to a period of 12 months from the damage 

 complained of, or (in case of a particular con- 

 tract or building job) of six months from the 

 termination of the work. 



(b.) The expenses to be recoverable from any person 

 by whose order " or for whose benefit " the work 

 is done. 



(c.) The expenses not to be recovered before justices, 

 but in the county court, or, in case of large 

 amounts, in the High Court. 



In Scotland an appeal should be allowed from the ' 

 Sheriff's Court to the Court of Session, in order to 

 secure uniformity in the decisions. 



The clause should be extended to Ireland. 



IX. — That the amount of the penalties for various offences 

 should be revised, and that the law as amended 

 should be consolidated in one Statute for the United 

 Kingdom. 



India. — Statement exhibiting the Moral and Material Progress 

 and Condition of India during 1894-95. [H.C. — 218.] 

 Price Is. 9d. 



The statistics for 1893-94 which are contained in the above 

 work, showing the area available for cultivation in British India, 

 and the extent of cultivation of each kind of crop, are given 

 below. They are incomplete in so far as they exclude from 

 consideration large tracts, chiefly in the zemindari districts of 

 Madras, ibr which no returns exist. The area thus excluded 

 from consideration amounts to more than one-ninth of the whole 

 area of India. In the rest of British India the cultivated area 

 in 1893-94 was 197,000,000 acres, and the area of culturable 

 waste other than fallow land was 95,000,000 acres ; of the 

 cultivated area, 28,000,000 acres bore two or more crops in the 

 year. The area under food-crops was 186,000,000 acres, and 

 under non-food crops, including sugar, tea, coffee, and condi- 

 ments, was 39,000,000 acres. In these figures the area that 

 bore more than one crop during the year has been counted twice 

 over. 



