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Parliamentary Publications. 



licence duty paid in the year was £1 1,514, and the amount of 

 beer duty charged was £12,143,482. The quantities of 

 materials used by brewers for sale included 57,468,514 

 bushels of malt, 131,279 bushels of unmalted corn, 927,036 

 cwts. of rice, flaked maize, and similar preparations, and 

 2,773,512 cwts. of sugar, including its equivalent of syrups, 

 glucose, and saccharum. 



Board of Agriculture. — Annual Report of Proceedings under the 

 Tithe and other Acts administered in the Land Division 

 for the Year 189! [C. 9209.] Price \\d. 



In their previous report the Board drew attention to the 

 expansion in the work devolving upon them under the 

 various Acts relating to tithe rent-charge. The past year 

 has shown no diminution in the rate of increase, the number 

 of applications under these Acts being 1,034, as compared 

 with 853 in 1897. The enfranchisements of copyhold land 

 which were confirmed by the Board also show an increase, the 

 number being 393, as compared with 323 in 1897. In both 

 cases the figures for 1898 were considerably in excess of 

 those for the preceding ten years. 



Under the Inclosure Acts, 1845 to 1882. provisional orders 

 for the regulation of Wolstanton Marsh, 31 acres, in the 

 neighbourhood of the Staffordshire Potteries, and Runcorn 

 Heath and Hill, 79 acres, were confirmed by Parliament. 

 The commons referred to will be preserved as open spaces 

 under the management of the respective district councils. 

 During the year the award in the matter of the inclosure of 

 the open fields, etc., in the parishes of Castor and Ailsworth, 

 Northamptonshire, was confirmed by the Board. By this 

 award 42 acres of good land, well situated, were allotted for 

 field -gardens for the poor inhabitants, and 44 acres were set 

 out as public recreation grounds. Under the Law of Com- 

 mons Amendment Act, 1893, the consent of the Board was 

 given to the inclosure of half an acre of Cookham Dean 

 Common to provide a site for a school. Thirty-eight orders 



