March 1896.] PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



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Allotment Acts. {Acquisition of Land by Local Authorities.) 



[4<m.—Sess, 2.] 



A return prepared by the Locai Government Board showing 

 that 83 rural sanitary authorities had acquired land for allot- 

 ments under the Allotments Act, 1887, prior to the 28th December 

 1894, the date from which these authorities ceased to exist under 

 the provisions of the Local Government Act, 1894. 



The land was acquired {a) in one parish by compulsory 

 purchase ; (6) in ] 8 parishes by purchase by agreement ; (c) in 

 132 parishes, by hire by agreement ; the total acreage amounting 

 to 1,836 acres 1 rood 34 poles. The total number of tenants 

 to whom allotments had been let under the Act was 4,711. 



The return also shows that 12 County Councils had acquired 

 land for allotments under the Allotments Acts, 1887 and 1890, 

 (a) in one parish by compulsory purchase ; (b) in five parishes by 

 purchase by agreement ; (c) in 26 parishes by hire by agreement. 

 The total acreage so acquired was 413 acres 1 rood 5 poles, 

 and the total number of tenants to whom allotments had been 

 let by the County Councils was 825. The county councils had 

 delegated their powers as regards the land acquired by them in 

 three parishes to the rural sanitary authoiities. 



The total acreage of the land acquired by the rural sanitary 

 authorities and the County Councils under the provisions of the 

 Acts was thus 2,249 acres 2 roods 39 poles, at the date of the 

 return (27th August 1895), and the total number of tenants to 

 whom the land was let was 5,536. 



Small Holdings Act, 1892. 



Return " showing for each County (a) the Number and Date 

 of the Petitions {if any) presented under Section 5 of the 

 Act, with a Copy of the Resolutions of the County Council 

 thereon ; (b) the Amount of Land {if amy) acquired under 

 Section 3 of the Act, with the Parish or Parishes in ivhich 

 the same is situate; {c) the JS umber of Small Holdings 

 provided, with the Acreage of each Holding and the Terms 

 of Sale or Letting, as the case may be." [407. — Sess. 2.] 

 Price Sd. 



This return, prepared by the Board of Agriculture from 

 information supplied by local authorities, has, for convenience 

 of tabulation, been divided into three parts : — Part I. : The 

 counties in which land has been acquired for the purposes of 

 the Small Holdings Act, 1892, with particulars as to the land 



