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Allotments.

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Inclosures under the two statutes of 1^31 appear, therefore, to require in ordinary cases the consent of both the Local Government Board and the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.

730. Po^Yers of letting poor lands to poor and industrious parishioners were given {n) whilst the provisions of the Allotments Act, 1832, were also made applicable to allotments appropriated to the benefit of the poor under the two statutes of 1831 above

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Poor Allotments. Letting,



mentioned (0). Rents of lands acquired under the Poor Belief Act, 1819, and the

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Crown Lands Allotments

Act, 1831, are to be applied in aid of the poor rate of the parish in which the lands are situate {p).

731. Where lands have been acquired under the Poor Belief Act, 1819, and the Crown Lands Allotments Act, 1831, for the purposes of those Acts, and such purposes cannot be carried into effect, the lands may be sold, exchanged, let, or otherwise disposed of subject to rules and regulations, if any, of the Local Government Board (q). No such rules and regulations have been made, and for all practical purposes the procedure under the above enactments has been rendered obsolete by more recent legislation on the subject

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Fuel Allotments.

732. Fuel allotments consist of those provided under local Inclosure Acts before 1845, and derive their name from the purpose for which the rent received in respect of them is applied. They were vested in trustees or in the churchwardens and overseers, either with or without the minister of the parish (s) Their main object was to provide poor parishioners with fuel (t).

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733. Where the allotment trustees, or where the vestry empowered Management, make an order in respect of poor allotments under the Allotments Act, 1832, exceed twenty in number, such trustees or vestry are required to appoint annually during August a committee from their body to manage the allotments, and such committee have the powers of the trustees or vestry appointing them (a). Failing such appointment the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries may make the appointment on the application of any person interested (5). In other to

{71) Poor Eelief Act, 1819 (59 Geo. 3, c. 12), s. 13; extended to lands acquired under the Poor Eelief Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 42), see s. 4. and see p. 334, post. (0) AUotments Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Will. 4, c. 42), s. 11 For forms of agreement for letting these allotments, see Encyclopaedia of Forms, Yol. L, p. 442. p) Poor Allotments Management Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 19), s. 14.

q) Ibid.,

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See pp. 349, 353, post. (s) For the present authorities, see title Local Goveenment. (t) Such allotments are governed chiefly by the Allotments Act, 1832 (2 & 3; Will. 4, c. 42), and by the Poor Allotments Management Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict, the powers thereunder being exercised under the control of the Local c. 19) Government Board, see the Union and Parish Property Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 69), s. 4, and Local Government Board Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 70), s. 2.. The former of those two Acts substituted, for the churchwardens and overseers, the overseers of the poor or the guardians of poor law unions. (a) Poor Allotments Management Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 19), ss. 3, 4. Board of Agriculture Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 30), s. 2 (1) (b),. (6) Ibid., s. 9 and Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Act, 1903 (3 Edw. 7, c. 31). (r)