Agricultural drainage : a retrospective of forty years experience / J. Bailey Denton.
- John Bailey Denton
- Date:
- 1883
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Agricultural drainage : a retrospective of forty years experience / J. Bailey Denton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![DIVISION V. BORROWED CAPITAL APPLIED TO LAND DRAINAGE AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS, AND THE COURSE TO BE ADOPTED TO OBTAIN IT. Since the passing of the Improvement of Land Act, 1864 (27 and 28 Vict., cap. 114), which was intended by the Legislature to afford to landowners increased facilities for improvements, beyond what they already possessed in the several Improvement Companies' Acts, two important legislative measures have become law, and as they belr on agricultural drainage it may be advantageous at once to show in what way they affect it. The measures referred to are the Settled Land Act, 1828 (45 and Settled Land 46 Vict, cap. 38), and the Agricultural Holdings Act, 188^ (47 and 46 1882, and Vict., cap. 61). V. \ / f Agricultural ^ ^ Holdings Act, In an article by the writer pubUshed in the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Vol. IV, second series, the powers obtained by the different existing improvement companies are explained • but as the Settled Land Act and Agricultural Holdings Act not only comprise all the works those companies had special parliamentary powers to execute, but many additional ones, the most tangible means of showing the present position of matters will be by giving in extcnso the clauses from both Acts bearing on the subject. The following are verbatim copies of the clauses referred to. {From the Settled Latid Act, 1882.] TTT Qatt, -c Settled Land liL—bALE; Enfranchisement; Exchange; Partition. '^^2. General Powers a?id Regulations. A tenant for life— (i.) May sell the settled land, or any part thereof, or any easement. Powers to tenant for life to sell, &c.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21782568_0085.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
