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it appeared that in 273 cases the land is let in allotments. 

 The rents taken for the land vary from los. to 50s. per acre. 

 In regard to recreation grounds 302 reports were received- 

 In 212 cases the land is more or less used for recreation 

 purposes, and in about 160 cases the herbage is let. 



Two schemes were approved and certified by the Board 

 under the Metropolitan Commons Act, relating respectively 

 to East Sheen Common and to Barnes Common, both in the 

 county of Surrey, and schemes are also under consideration 

 in regard to Ham Common and Ham Fields in Surrey, and 

 Harrow Weald Common in Middlesex. 



Applications under the Universities and College Estates 

 Acts to the number of 155, involving transactions to the value 

 of ^^254,985, were dealt with, as well as fifty-six applications 

 under the Glebe Lands Act, 1888. 



Certificates under section 5 (i) of the Light Railways Act, 

 1896, have been granted in five cases. 



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 inspec- 

 tion without charge. 



Board of Agriculture. — Agricultural Returns for Great Britai^i, 

 1897. (C. 8,897.) Price IS, td. 



This publication now brings together for permanent refer- 

 ence in a single volume the information already published 

 in seven separate instalments, concerning the areas and 

 produce of the crops, and the numbers of the live stock of 

 Great Britain 1897, certain supplementary details being now 

 added. Summaries for the United Kingdom, including the 

 Irish figures and those /or the Isle of Man and Channel 

 Islands, are also given, as w^ell as the customary data 

 respecting the prices, [^imports, and exports of agricultural 

 produce in 1897 and previous years; together with a series 

 of tables summarising the agricultural statistics of British 

 colonies and of various foreign countries. The last section 



