March 1896.] 



PARLIAMENTARY PITBLICaTIONS. 



471 



under Part II. of the Act, the purchaser borrowing 150^. out of 

 2001. purchase-money from the County Council, repayable by 

 instalments of 2?. 18s. Id. over 50 years. 



Land Eegistry Office. 



Returns of the work done in the Land Registry under the Land- 

 Transfer Act, 1875 {Lord Cairns' Act) ; the Land Registry 

 Act, 1862 {Lord Westhury's Act) ; the Acts of 1875 and 

 1862; the Mortgage Debenture ^c^s, 1865 and 187 0^ and 

 the Improvement of Land Act, 1864; the Land Charges 

 Registration and Searches Act, 1888 ; the Middlesex Registry 

 Act, 1708, cmd the Land Registry {Middlesex Deeds) Act^ 

 1891 ; cmd, a Return, in continuation of the Return No. 

 334, of the Year 1882, shoiuing the amount of Fees received 

 each Year, and the Amount of Salaries and Expenses each 

 Year, in the Land Registry, from the 1st day of April 1881 

 to the Slst day of March 1895. [H.C.— 463.] Sess. % 

 Price Id. 



This publication shows that under the Land Transfer Act of 

 1875, in the period 1876-1894, there were registered 299 estates 

 of 2,953,494^. in value, and of 61,595 acres. The period in 

 question being divided into three terms of six j^ears each, the 

 number of registries in those terms was respectively 71, 51, 

 and 177. Under the Land Registry Act of 1862, 411 estates, 

 the titles to which were registered on first registration, 

 amounted in area to 49,117 acres, and were valued at 

 5,346,473^. The total number of separate titles on the register 

 under both the Acts of 1875 and 1862 on the 81st March 1894 

 w^ere 4,236 in number, of about 14,000,000^. in value, and 109,027 

 acres in area. 



It is explained that the present value of estates is somewhat 

 difficult to ascertain with certainty, but the above sum has been 

 arrived at after a careful consideration of the latest recorded 

 dealings with every estate on the register. 



Weights and Measures. A Report hy the Board of Trade on 

 their proceedings and business under the Weights and 

 Measures Acts, 1878 and 1879 (41 42 Vict, c, 49, and 

 52 c£- 53 Vict. c. 21). [4:S2.~Sess. 2.] 



This report relates to the period between 2nd August 1894 

 and 14th August 1895, and is made by the Board of Trade in 

 pursuance of section 33 of the Weights and Measures Act, 1878- 

 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 49), 



