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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



Board of Agriculture. — Annual Report of Proceedings tinder 

 the Tithe and other Acts administered in the Land Divi- 

 sion. [C. — 8377.] Price \\d. 



The total number of applications to the Board under the 

 provisions of the Tithe Acts was 721 in 1896, as compared 

 with 809 in the previous year. Of these 420 were applica- 

 tion for redemption of tithe rent-charge, and 174 w T ere for 

 altered apportionments of tithe rent-charge. 



The total number of enfranchisements completed by the 

 Board under the Copyhold Act was 304 in 1896, as com- 

 pared with 275 in 1895, and proceedings in 259 other cases 

 have also been commenced. 



The final awards under the Inclosure Acts were sealed 

 during the year in regard to Darwen Moor, High Road 

 Well Moor, Halifax, and Bexhill Down, Sussex. The effect 

 of the proceedings in all these cases is that the lands men- 

 tioned will be preserved as open spaces under the control of 

 the local authorities. 



In 1896 the Board received 152 applications under the 

 Universities and College Estates Acts for their consent to 

 sales, purchases, and exchanges of property ; to improvement 

 loans, and other transactions. 



Sixty-two applications were made in the past year for the 

 Board's approval of the sale of glebe lands ; and 216 applica- 

 tions were also made for their sanction to expenditure under 

 the Drainage and Improvement of Land Acts. 



Umpires under the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1883, were 

 appointed by the Board in eleven cases in 1896. 



