THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTUREThis Bill, which I have also to ask leave to introduce, likewise carries out the recommendations of a Departmental Committee. Universities and Colleges have recently had great difficulty in maintaining their position, in consequence of the depressed condition of landed property, and they have been in a restricted position as compared with limited owners. This Bill, although in the main a consolidated Bill, makes certain alterations in the existing law, in accordance with the recommendations of the Departmental Committee presided over by my hon. Friend the Member for Thirsk. The practical effect will be to place Universities and Colleges in the same position as is now occupied by limited owners under the Settled Lands Act, the distinction being that limited owners are protected by trustees, whereas in the case of Universities and Colleges the Board of Agriculture fills the place of trustees. I hope that if the House permits the Bill to pass into law it will remove some of those obstacles which make it 991 difficult for Universities and Colleges to do as much as they would like for the cause of education.
§ Presented and road the first time; to be read a second time upon Thursday, and to be printed. [Bill 119.]