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ture by the county councils, and the return does not show 

 the manner in which such grants have been applied. In 

 many boroughs and urban districts, not individually named 

 in this return, which do not raise rates under the Technical 

 Instruction Acts, science, art, and technical instruction is 

 being carried on with the grants made by county councils 

 out of the residue. 



The total amount expended on technical education during 

 the year 1895-6 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 

 Ireland was 13s. 2d., and the estimated total 



expenditure on technical education duiing the year 1896-7 

 was ^847,620 17s. 8d. These amounts are exclusive of the 

 sums allocated to intermediate and technical education unaer 

 the Welsh Intermediate Education Act, 1889. The amounts 

 raised by loan on the security of the local rate under the 

 Technical Instruction Acts were ^179,501 us. 3d. in 1895-6, 

 ;£i3l>i63 19s. 6d. in 1896-7. 



Agricultural Rates Act, 1896 [Rateable Values). Return 

 showings as regards each union and parish i7i England 

 and Wales ^ the rateable value of such ttnton and parish 

 according to the statements furnished to the Local Govern- 

 ment Board by assessment committees [or other assessing 

 authorities, where there are no assessmeiit coinmittees) under 

 the Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, etc. {H. C. 368.] Price 

 \s. 4^d. 



This return shows the rateable value (exclusive of the 

 annual value of non-rateable hereditaments in the occupation 

 of the Crown) of each union and parish in England and 

 Wales, according to the statements furnished to the Local 

 Government Board by assessment committees (or other 

 assessing authorities where there were no assessment com- 

 mittees) under the Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, and dis- 

 tinguishes the rateable value of agricultural land, as defined 

 by that Act, from the rateable value of buildings and other 

 hereditaments not being agricultural land. The statements 

 from which the return is compiled show the rateable value 



