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Rents of allotments amounted to£48,5 23; the expenses under 

 this head to ,£46,295. Most of the transactions concerning 

 these allotments were in the hands of parish councils ; the 

 receipts of these bodies (including parish meetings) from this 

 source amounting in the year under review to £31,224, and 

 their expenses to £29,432 ; the corresponding receipts in 

 1895-6 having been £9,506, and the expenditure £12,000. The 

 various urban authorities spent £12,501 on allotments in 

 1898-9, and the rural and county councils £4,362. In addi- 

 tion to these expenses, there was raised during the year a sum 

 of £4,214 in loans (nearly five-sixths by county councils) for 

 this purpose, and there was an expenditure of £1,768 defrayed 

 out of loans. 



It maybe noted that the total amount of loans raised during 

 1898-9 by all local authorities for all purposes was £19,698,918, 

 or about £5,821,000 above the average of the four preceding 

 years ; the total amount outstanding at the end of the year 

 was £276,229,048, this indebtedness having steadily increased 

 during the past ten years. 



Report of the Committee of Council for Education in 

 Scotland, 1 900-1 \Cd. 585.] Price qd. 



This Report furnishes particulars of the grants made i:i 

 respect of agricultural education in Scotland during the 

 financial year 1900- 1. The usual sum of £2,000 which the 

 Department receives annually for the purpose was augmented 

 in the past year by moneys available under Section 2, 

 Subsection 4, of the Local Taxation Account (Scotland) Act, 

 1898, and the following grants were made: £500 to the 

 Agricultural Department of Aberdeen University; £1,000 to 

 the Edinburgh School of Rural Economy ; and £2,000 to 

 the West of Scotland Agricultural College. 



It is explained that the object of these special agricultural 

 grants is in the first place to foster the scientific study of 



