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36,246 persons, with 14,223 dependents, were receiving- 

 pensions in Denmark under this law to the amount of 

 ^216,317, of which, roughly, half was paid by the State and 

 half by the Communes. 



The Report mentions a system of compulsory subscription 

 to old- age relief funds in force in Iceland under a law of 1890, 

 but states that no relief has yet been paid under that law. 



Report of the Progress of the Ordnance Survey to the 3 1st March, 

 1899. [C. 9385.] Price 35. 2K 



According to this report the actual work of revising the 

 original ^too maps of England and Wales was not 

 begun till 1894. Since that year the following counties have 

 been resurveyed : — Bucks, Cheshire, Durham, Essex, Flint 

 Hants, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Northumberland, Surrey 

 Sussex, and Westmoreland. The revision of the following 

 counties is in progress : — Anglesey, Berks, Carnarvon, 

 Cumberland, Denbigh, Derby, Glamorgan, Monmouth 

 Northampton, Notts, Oxford, Stafford, and Wilts. During 

 the same period 2 > 0 0 maps have been' prepared of 

 London, Plymouth, and the Tyneside district, and also of all 

 towns in the districts under revision. The total area of 

 which maps have been published is 13,988 square miles, of 

 which 4,752 square miles were published in the year 1898-99. 



The 6 in. to the mile maps of the revised counties of 

 England and Wales are, as a rule, being reduced from the 

 revised maps on the ., ?- 00 scale, and are published by 

 heliozincography. In uncultivated districts the revision is 

 made direct on the original 6 in. maps. The total area 

 published is 10,010 square miles, of which 6,222 square miles 

 have been published during the year ended March 31st last. 



In accordance with a recommendation of the Departmental 

 Committee which reported on the survey of 1892, the Treasury 

 in 1893 sanctioned the principle that the 1 inch map should be 

 revised every fifteen years independently of the revision of 

 the maps of Great Britain on larger scales. The field work 

 of the revision was begun in 1893. Since that year, th 



