§ 53. Mr. HANCOCKasked the President of the Board of Agriculture the amount of common, waste, and moorland inclosed under Acts of Parliament from 1800 down to the present time in the counties of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire; and would he give the date of the passing of each Act, the acreage, the parish in which the land was situated, the names of the families benefited by such inclosures, and the number of acres allotted in each case?
§ The PRESIDENT of the BOARD Of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Runciman)I would refer my hon. Friend to the general answer which I gave yesterday to three questions on this subject addressed to me by the hon. Member for the Louth Division. According to the Return made in 1843 (H.C. 435), eighty-four Acts authorising inclosures in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire were passed from 1802 to 1841, but eight of these do not state the acreage dealt with, and in other cases the acreage stated may have been subsequently altered by the awards. Two similar Acts were passed in 1843–5, and under the Inclosure Act, 1845, seventeen Provisional Orders were made. It is possible to obtain the particulars desired 437 in respect of inclosures made since 1845, but only at the cost of much laborious research, and I am doubtful whether such an incomplete Return would serve the purpose which my hon. Friend has in view.