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PAKLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



[June 1395. 



utilised so far as practicable — the values of various imported 

 commodities, as well as those of imported grain and meat, are 

 also supplied in numerous cases from the data returned by the 

 Customs. The growth of agricultural imports from abroad is 

 nlso dealt with, and notices are finally given of foreign and 

 colonial agricultural data — especial attention being drawn to the 

 relative extent and to the recent increase ct decrease of wheat 

 areas, and to the growth or diminution in numbers of cattle, 

 sheep, and swine in those countries or colonies from which recent 

 statistics could be procured. 



Board of Agriculture. Annual Report of Proceedings under 

 the Tithe Acts, the Copyhold Acts, the Inclosure Acts, the 

 Metropolitan Commons Act, the Drainage and Improve- 

 ment of Land Acts, the Universities and College Estates 

 Acts, the Glebe Lands Act, 1888, <Scc.,&c., for the Year 1894. 

 [C— 7660.] Frice 2d. 



Under the Tithe Acts, the Board received in 1894 a total of 

 487 applications for redemption, besides 193 applications for 

 altered apportionments of rentcharge. 103 applications relating 

 to other branches of tithe business were also received. 



Under the Copyhold Acts, 308 enfranchisements were com- 

 pleted by the Board in 1894, and proceedings in 222 other cases 

 had been commenced. -Orders of exchange of lands were 

 confirmed in 38 cases in the year. 



Special attention is drawn to the business of the Board relating 

 to the enclosure and regulation of commons and to the extent to 

 which these questions are affected by recent legislation. Some 

 falling-off IS reported in the applications for land improvement 

 and in the number of transactions involving outlay for new 

 works under the Drainage and Improvement Acts; but the 

 actual expenditure for which charges on estates had been created 

 was 150,949^. as compared with 116,816^. in 1893. 



Education Department, 1895. Code of Regulations for Day 

 Schools, with Schedules and Appendices, by the Right 

 Honourable the Lords of the Committee of the Privy 

 Council on Education. [C— 7652.] Price 5d. 

 In the section of the Code which relates to Grants, provision 



has been again made for the practical teaching of dairy work 



to girls by a teacher holding a certificate recognised by the 



Department. 



On similar lines a grant is now also obtainable on account of 

 any boy who, while receiving instruction in the elementary 



