§ Return ordered, "of the work done in the Land Registry under the various Acts hereinafter mentioned, namely:—
§ 1. Under the Land Transfer Act, 1875 (Lord Cairns' Act):—
- (a) The number, value, and acreage (where known) of estates the titles to which were annually registered, on first registration, from the 1st day of January, 1895
163 to the 31st day of December, 1898, showing the number of estates registered with absolute, qualified, and possessory title, and leaseholds; and also the number of estates registered under The Small Holdings Act, 1892. - (b) The total number of separate titles on the register on the 31st day of December, 1898, (i.)by first registration, (ii.) by sub-division of estates already registered, and (iii.) by transfer from the 1862 register.
§ 2. Under The Land Registry Act, 1862 (Lord Westbury's Act):—
- (a) The total number, value, and acreage (where known) of estates the titles to which were registered on first registration.
- (b) The total number of separate titles on the register on the 31st day of December, 1898 (i.) by first registration, and (ii.) by subdivision of estates already registered;
- (c) The total number of separate titles which had been removed from the register on the 31st day of December, 1898, otherwise than by transfer to the 1875 register.
§ 3. Under both the Acts of 1875 and 1862:—
- (a) The total number of separate titles on the register on the 31st day of December, 1898;
- (b) The total number of transactions annually registered from the 1st day of January, 1895, to the 31st day of December, 1898, showing the numbers of (i.) first registrations under the Act of 1875, (ii.) conveyances, transfers, and transmissions of land, (iii.) mortgages, charges, further charges, and transfers of mortgages and charges, (iv.) reconveyances of mortgages and cessation of charges, (v.) leases and surrenders of leases, (vi.) miscellaneous.
§ 4. Under the Mortgage Debenture Acts, 1865 and 1870, and the Improvement of Land Act, 1864:—
§ A statement, so far as may be practicable, of the nature and amount 164 of the work done under these Acts from the 1st day of January, 1895, to the 31st day of December, 1898.
§ 5. Under the Land Charges Registration and Searches Act, 1888:—
§ The number of registrations, official searches, and ordinary searches annually made from the 1st day of January, 1895, to the 31st day of December, 1898.
§ 6. Under the Middlesex Registry Act, 1708, and the Land Registry (Middlesex Deeds) Act, 1891.
§ The number of registrations and searches annually made from the 1st day of January, 1895, to the 31st day of December, 1898.
§ And showing the amount of fees received each year, and the amount of salaries and expenses each year in the Land Registry from the 1st day of April, 1895, to the 31st day of March, 1899, distinguishing with respect to the periods, since the Land Transfer Act, 1897, came into operation, for the purposes of Section 22 of that Act, the fees received and salaries and expenses paid under the Land Transfer Acts, and the other Acts above referred to (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 463, of Session 1895).—(Mr. H. D. Greene.)