AO/M1/1

Bundle of Ministry Circulars etc. comprising, in the main, the following subjects bundled in chronological order as listed below:- 1919 - redemption of tithe rent charge on land acquired under the Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1908. - land which the Agricultural Executive Committee has possession of on behalf of the Board under Regulation 2M of the Defence of the Realm Acts - Land Drainage Acts 1847. - Land Settlement Returns (quarterly and monthly) specifying (inter alia) for each County Council, the numbers of applications received from ex-service men and total acreage applied for, numbers of applicants interviewed and approved acreage for which County Council authorised to bid at auction but were unable to acquire, total acreage acquired with Ministry approval and acreage proposed to be acquired by the County Council in exercise of their compulsory powers (later returns give slightly more information). - Sub-division and equipment of land for Small Holdings. - Land Settlement (Facilities) Act 1919. - Organisation of threshing. - Land Settlement - compulsory hiring. - Charity Commission proposals for sales of Charity Estates, instructions to surveyors. - Statutory Rules and Orders from Ministry of Food e.g. Flour & Bread (Returns) Order and Potatoes Order under the Defence of the Realm regulations. - Extracts from Minutes of Proceedings at a Conference to consider the present position of the Land Settlement Scheme in England and Wales. - Copy letter from G.E.Coleman of Bedford to Lloyd George requesting financial assistance to enable him and his sons to work a Small Holding provided by the County Council - Land Settlement: preference to ex-service men and women - Glebe Lands Act 1888: application to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries by the rector of Steppingley. 1920 - Land Settlement: equipment of Small Holdings. - Min. of Ag. Fish. Act 1919: ministerial requirements. - Land Settlement: equipment of holdings returns (monthly) recording position at each specified date for each County Council as follows: acreage acquired with Ministerial approval up to said date, acreage for which no equipment is required, numbers of houses and sets of farm buildings requiring new equipment, numbers of plans formally approved for the same with details of cost of adaptation of existing buildings and all formally approved work (later returns give slightly more information) - Supply of fruit trees for Small Holdings. - 'General Service' circular discussing the following issues: acreage returns and livestock conditions, lodging of corn crops, foot and mouth disease, agricultural students, fruit grading, land drainage principles and practice, potato blight, the war and the fishing fleet, and the Agricultural Bill - Agricultural Wages Board Order varying the minimum rate of wages at present in force for female workers in England and Wales. - Purchase of Statutory Small Holdings - Insurance of Small Holding property. - Particulars of firms with lime works in Bedfordshire and adjoining counties able to supply lime for agricultural purposes (with some details of prices for ground lime, burnt lime etc.). - Ministry leaflet, re: growing wild white clover and late flowering red clover for seed. - Utilisation of capital money derived from proceeds of sales of mansion houses, woodland, timber, minerals etc. on Council Estates. - Provision of farming capital in respect of land farmed by Small Holdings Committees. - Agriculture Act 1920. 1921 - Destruction of documents. - Equipment of Small Holdings conference at Sutton Bridge Farm Settlement - Contracts for building work on Small Holdings. - Late claims under the Corn Production Acts. - Loans to tenants under the Land Settlement (Facilities) Act 1919. - 'Weekly service' circular: includes reports on the following discussion subjects - the country's supply of calves, wharves for imported fat stock, the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, Farm Orchards of Wales and Monmouth, liver fluke in sheep, black rust of wheat in Wales, turkey breeding, fruit preservation courses, rewards for rat destruction and insurance of inshore fishing vessels. - County Agricultural Cttees. reduction of expenditure. - Minimum prices of wheat and oats under the Corn Production Acts 1917 and 1920. - Tenant right valuation. - Decontrol of agriculture. - Corn claims in respect of land in the occupation of County Council Agricultural Committees - Land Settlement - building contracts and wages; government scheme for the employment of ex-service men to be trained in the building industry. - Ministry of Ag. & Fish. leaflet, re: pig breeding. - Training of disabled ex-service men in agriculture appointments under the Imperial War Graves Commission. - Drainage schemes for the alleviation of unemployment. - Holdings for blinded men trained by St. Dunstan's Hostel. - Land Settlement: tendering for building contracts. 1922 - Decontrol of agriculture- disposal of O.S. maps. - Unemployment relief schemes (land drainage and water supply) administration expenses. - Acquisition of land for Small Holdings purposes. - Insurance of Small Holdings property. - Payment of Income Tax on Small Holdings. - Ministry of Agriculture scale of compensation for guidance in enfranchisement of copyholds of inheritance. - County Council Agricultural Committee administration expenses - Agriculture Act 1920: disturbance compensation claims. - Vacant (equipped) holdings in Kent. - Staff mileage allowances. 1923 - Injurious weeds: administration expenses - Properties acquired by Small Holdings which are not to be used for Small Holdings purposes. - Asbestos roofs in cowhouses. 1924 - Payment of Income Tax on Small Holdings. - Light horse breeding scheme - Land Settlement statistics - Land Settlement: equipment of Small Holdings - memo on termination of tenancies and notices to quit [ ex A.O.C. packet 80; two double-arch lever files nos. 1 and 2; former catalogue reference AOMC 1 ]

1919-1924

From: 1919 To: 1924

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Coleman, G.E.,
Lloyd George,
Agricultural Wages Board,
Imperial War Graves Commission,
Charity Commission

Land Settlement (Facilities) Act 1919, glebe, lime, disability, unemployment, agriculture horses, BEDFORD, STEPPINGLEY, Kent, Sutton Bridge