THE EARL OF CAMPERDOWNMy Lords, I beg to present a petition from the county council of the county of Forfar against the Land Values (Scotland) Bill. They say that, being entrusted with the administrative and financial business of that county, they have carefully considered the Bill, and are of opinion that it should not receive the sanction of Parliament for the following among other reasons—videlicet, that the Bill in requiring the capital land value of lands and heritages, not being lands and heritages falling to be valued by the Assessor of Railways and Canals, 634 to be entered in the Valuation Roll, would, if passed, entail enormous expense upon counties without conferring upon them any corresponding benefits, that the Bill does not state any purpose for which it is necessary or desirable that the said capital land value should be entered in the Valuation Roll; and that in any case no good purpose can be served. by entering in the Valuation Roll the capital land value of agricultural lands in counties where both the land and the buildings thereon belong to the same person.
§ Ordered to lie on the Table.