Application for Partition.

It is desirable that applications for partition should be perused and approved by the Board before being executed.

When sending up the draft application for the first time, be good enough to give the dates of any previous correspondence which may have passed with the Board on the subject.

To the Board of Agriculture.

I, the undersigned

of- -, in the county of

being the person interested under the provisions of the Inclosure Acts, 1845 to 1882, in

undivided

parts or shares in the lands and hereditaments hereinafter mentioned, and I, the undersigned, of —, being the person interested under the provisions of the said Acts in the remaining - undivided part or share in the same lands and hereditaments, and being desirous of effecting a partition, as hereinafter mentioned, hereby apply to you to direct enquiries whether such proposed partition would be beneficial to the respective owners of such undivided parts; and, in case you should be of opinion that such partition would be beneficial, and the terms thereof just and reasonable, to proceed with the same under the provisions of the said Acts.

LANDS (a) and HEREDITAMENTS proposed to be allotted in severalty to the above-named situate in the parish of

in the county of

un

in respect of his divided parts or shares in such lands and hereditaments, and in the lands and hereditaments proposed to be allotted in severalty to the said

(a) There will be two schedules of this description in the application.

[The consent of the lord of the manor, being necessary to the partition of copyhold or customary land, should be given as follows]

We, the undersigned, being separately interested, according to the provisions of the Inclosure Acts, 1845 to 1882, in the parcels of land set opposite our respective names in the first schedule hereunder written- (a) and which are so

(c) that the same cannot be

-(b) into parcels of (d) to the best advantage, but which form together a tract which may be divided into convenient parcels, and being desirous to have the whole of such tract divided into convenient parcels, to be allotted as mentioned in the second schedule hereunder written, in lieu of the old parcels,

Hereby apply to you to direct an enquiry whether such proposed division and allotment would be beneficial to the owners of such lands, and in case you shall be of opinion that the proposed division and allotment would be beneficial, to proceed with the same under the provisions of the said Acts.

(a) Which are not subject to be inclosed under the said Act, or which are subject to be inclosed under the said Act, but as to which no proceedings for an inclosure are pending (as the case may be).

(b) Intermixed or divided, or intermixed and divided (as the case may be).

(c) Inconvenient form or inconvenient quantity, or inconvenient form and quantity (as the case may be).

(d) Cultivated or occupied, or cultivated and occupied (as the case may be).

Witness our hands to the foregoing application this day of —, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and

[The consents of the bishop of the diocese, and patron of the benefice, being necessary where lands are held in right of any church, chapel, or other ecclesiastical benefice, should be given as follows]

of

We, the undersigned

and

of

lord bishop of the diocese in the county of

patron of the benefice herein before mentioned, do hereby consent to the foregoing application.

(Signed)

[The consent of the lord of the manor, which is necessary in the case of copyhold or customary land should be given as follows]

APPENDIX II.

Information and directions as to the mode in which Applications for the Regulation or Inclosure of Commons under the Inclosure Acts, 1845 to 1882, are to be made to the Board of Agriculture; with explanations respecting the law relating to the Regulation and Inclosure of Commons.

References to the Commons Act, 1876.

1. Application may be made to the Board of Agriculture Sect. 2. for a Provisional Order

(1.) For the regulation of a common; or

(2.) For the inclosure of a common; or

(3.) For the regulation of a part of a common, and the inclosure of the remainder: but in this case the appli

cation must be dealt with as if the respective parts

were separate commons.

N.B. Inclosure in severalty, as opposed to regulation, will not be sanc- Preamble. tioned, unless it can be proved, to the satisfaction of the Board and of Parliament, that inclosure will be of benefit to the neighbourhood as well as to private interests, and to those who are legally interested in the common.

2. The persons making the application must represent at Sect. 2. least one-third in value of the interests which are proposed to be affected by the Provisional Order.

In the case of a suburban common (see par. 7) the urban Sect. 8. sanitary authority may, with the consent of persons representing one-third in value of the interests proposed to be affected, make application for the regulation of such common, with a view to the benefit of their town.

3. A Provisional Order for the regulation of a common may Sect. 3. provide, generally or otherwise, for the "adjustment of rights," in respect of such common, and for the "improvement" of such common, or for either of such purposes.

The adjustment of rights in respect of a common comprises Sect. 4. all or any of the following things:

(1.) As respects rights of common of pasture in a common, being waste land of a manor, the determination of the persons by whom, the stock by which, and the times at which such common of pasture is to be exercised;