Parliamentary Publications. 



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gious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1894, was £21,617, as compared 

 with £23,388 in 1894-95. 



Weights and Measures. Report by the Board of Trade on 

 their Proceedings and Business under the Weights and 

 Measures Acts. [H.C. — 392.] Price z\d. 



This report is made under the 33rd Section of the Weights 

 and Measures Act, 1878, and contains, inter alia, a list of 

 districts of local authorities for which local standards were 

 verified or re-verified by the Board of Trade, or locally 

 compared, during the twelve months ending August 4th, 1897, 

 and the names and districts of inspectors authorised during 

 the same period to adjust weights and measures, appointed 

 by local authorities. An appendix gives the equivalents of 

 metric in terms of imperial weights and measures. 



Agricultural Rates Act, 1896. Copy of Order of the Local 

 Gover?ime?it Board furtJier amending their order of 28th 

 July, 1896, making regulations for the purposes of the Act. 

 H. C. 1. Price id. 



This Order directs that in every parish in the Metropolis 

 in which there is any agricultural land any new or supple- 

 mental valuation list made after the 31st March, 1898, shall 

 be made out in a form shown in the schedule to the Order. 



Board of Trade. Foreign Import Duties. [H.C. — 376.] 



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This publication is a new edition of the Return relating to 

 Foreign Import Duties [401 of Session 1893], embodying the 

 various alterations affecting duties on goods imported from 

 this country during the last four years ; and details of the 

 rates of import duties levied in European countries and the 

 United States upon the produce and manufactures of the 

 United Kingdom, so far as notified to the Board of Trade at 

 the end of 1897. 



