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way companies, especially in Scotland, have availed them- 

 selves of the Act in a way which, as they believe, will result 

 in affording accommodation to districts which would hardly 

 have obtained it otherwise. Under the rules framed by the. 

 Board of Trade, deposits in connection with applications for 

 orders have to be made in the months of May and Novem- 

 ber,but in 1896 December was substituted for the latter month. 



Brewers Licences, H,C. 83. Price i\d. 



According to this return the number of persons licensed 

 as brewers for sale in the United Kingdom in the year 

 ended 30th September, 1897, was 8,153, and the number 

 of licences issued was 8,285. The number of persons 

 licensed as brewers, not for sale, was 14,923. and ot 

 these 11,619 were private brewers not liable to beer 

 duty. The total amount of licence duty paid in the year 

 was ;£i2,353 IS., and the amount of beer duty charged was 



II, 748,463 6s. 7d. The quantities of materials used by 

 brewers for sale included 56,378,418 bushels of malt, 194,944 

 bushels of unmalted corn, 747,063 cwts. 2 qrs. 12 lbs. of rice, 

 flaked rice, flaked maize, and similar preparations, and 

 2,569,457 cwts. 2 qrs. 22 lbs. of sugar, including its equivalent 

 of syrups, glucose, and saccharum. 



Local Government [Scotland). Third Annual Report of the 

 Local Government Board for Scotland^ 1896-7. 

 (C — 8,575.) Price \s. ^d. 



This publication is the third annual report under the 

 Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1894. 



The Board have decided that in assessing agricultural land 

 under the Agricultural Rates (Scotland) Act, 1896, the 

 deductions under section 37 of the Poor Law Act should be 

 made from the gross rental as appearing in the Valuation 

 Roll, and that on three-eighths of the sum thus obtained the 

 assessment should be levied. 



