37. Major G. PEELasked the President of the Board of Agriculture whether, under the Land Drainage Bill now before Parliament, the Board of Agriculture has power to provide for differential rating of an area within the limits of a Commission of Sewers already in existence, and for the total or partial exemption from such rating of buildings within such an area, as a substantive order, where it is not proposed to make any other alteration of the powers of the Commission or of the area of its jurisdiction?
§ Sir R. WINFREYThe Land Drainage Bill has now become an Act of Parliament. The point referred to cannot be answered in general terms, but the Board will be ready to give careful consideration to any petition on such matters which may be laid before them.