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safety and convenience within their respective districts. 

 In dealing with these proposals, as it is obviously undesirable 

 that persons passing from one county or borough to another 

 should have to comply with different and sometimes incon- 

 sistent requirements, the Secretary of State has aimed at 

 securing, as far as possible, uniformity in the regulations. 



Reasons are given why it has been impossible always to 

 insist on complete uniformity ; and the main points of 

 difference between the various bye-laws are also stated. 



Woods and Forests. The Seventy -fifth Report of the Commis- 

 sioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land 

 Revenues, in obedience to the Acts of 10 Geo. IV. [Cap. 50), 

 and 2. Will. IV. {Cap. 1) ; being the Forty -sixth Report 

 under the Act of the 14 & 15 Vict. [Cap. 42). \H.C. 267.] 

 Price is. yd. 



This volume contains the Report for the year ended 

 31st March, 1897, of the Commissioner in charge of the 

 woods, royal forests, crown and certain other allotments in 

 in England; of the land revenue of the crown in Scotland, 

 Ireland, Wales, and in the Isles of Man and Alderney ; and 

 of the fee farm and other unimprovable rents of the crown 

 in Wales. 



The property in question is as follows : — 



1. The New Forest, including Bere, Parkhurst, Woolmer, 

 and Alice Holt Woods, and the Manor of Lyndhurst. 



2. Dean Forest, including Highmeadow and Great Doward 

 Woods, and the Manors of St. Briavels, Staunton, and 

 English Bicknor. 



3. The whole Crown property in Wales, County 

 Monmouth, in Scotland, in Ireland, and in the Isles of Man 

 and Alderney. 



The income derived from the New Forest consists of 

 receipts from sales of forest produce, amounting in the year 

 1896-97 to ,£7,355 4s. 1 id., and certain surface rents, amount- 

 ing in the same year to ,£3,099 1 is. 8d. 



The income derived from the Forest of Dean from the 



