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Parliamentary Publications. 



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 latter case the carriage is paid by the Department. 



Universities and College Estates Acts, — Report of the Depart- 

 mental Committee appointed by the Board of Agriculture 

 to inquire into the Working of the Universities and College 

 Estates ActSy 1858 /<? 1880, and to Report whether any^ and 

 if so what. Amendments thereiii are Desirable. [C. — 8646.] 

 Price I \d. 



The Committee state in their report, dated 6th August, 

 1897, their opinion, as the general result of their inquiry, that 

 there is not only ample scope, but also a considerable need, 

 for a measure to amend the above-mentioned Acts, both by 

 simplifying the terms in which they are expressed, and by 

 extending the powers of the Board of Agriculture to sanction 

 and facilitate transactions for the development of the most 

 valuable portions of the estates of the universities and col- 

 leges, which transactions have become of far greater import- 

 ance and urgency of late years on account of the fall of the 

 rents of the agricultural portions, and the change from bene- 

 ficial leases to a more direct control by the universities and 

 colleges of their properties. 



Filial Report of Her Majesty s Commissioners appointed to 

 inquire into the subject of Agricultural Depression, 

 [C. — 8540.] Price ^s. id. 



This report is divided into five parts. Part 1. deals with 

 the distribution and effects of agricultural depression ; 

 part II., with the causes of depression ; part III., with 

 miscellaneous subjects bearing on the agricultural position ; 

 part IV. is a summary of the recommendations of the Com- 

 mission ; and part V. is a supplementary report on the relation 

 of monetary changes to agricultural depression. Parts I. to 

 IV. inclusive constitute the main report, which is signed by 



