Name of Landlord in Order or Agreement fixing Fair Rent. Name of Tenant Record No. of Case or Agreement TO THE LAND COMMISSION COURT. Originating Notice of application by Landlord and Tenant jointly to fix Fair Rent, with consent that the application shall be referred to two Court Valuers to be named by the Land Commission, and that the Court may make an Order fixing the Fair Rent pursuant to the Report of the Valuers, unless either party requires the case to be heard in Court. We, the Landlord and the Tenant, apply to the Court for an Order fixing the Fair Rent of the above Holding, upon which a Fair Rent has already been fixed by * day of 18 And we * Here state whether by Order or by possible. dated the t hereby consent that the matter may be referred in the first Agreement. instance to two Court Valuers, to be named by the Land Com- + Date to be mission, and to be directed by them to report as to the Fair Rent; given as that the Land Commission may make an Order in accordance accurately as with the Report of the Valuers, unless either party requires the case to be heard in Court; in which event the case shall be listed for hearing in pursuance of the provisions of the Rules in this behalf, and that it shall not be necessary, save where such case has been referred to a Sub-Commission, for the Court to ascertain and record in the form of a Schedule the particulars mentioned in Section 1 of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1896. And we further agree + State agree ment as to § And that the Court shall declare that the Lessee be deemed game. to be a Tenant of a present Tenancy in the holding. Signature of Tenant or of Solicitor) on his behalf [The Tenant's signature must be witnessed by a Clergyman, by a Solicitor, by a Commissioner for taking Affidavits, by a Poor Law Guardian, or by an Urban or Rural District Councillor, but the Witness must not be in any case a person in the employment of the Landlord.] § To be struck out if tenancy not leasehold. SCHEDULE OF IMPROVEMENTS CLAIMED. The Land Commission hereby names Mr. and M. to act as Valuers in this matter, and directs them to report upon the Fair Rent of the above Holding. Dated this day of By Order. Registrar. RULES, DATED JULY 20, 1899, MADE BY THE LAND COMMISSION, UNDER THE LAND LAW (IRELAND) ACTS. 1899. No. 568. It is hereby ordered that the following Rules shall from and after this date, and until further Order, take effect and be in force in relation to all proceedings under the Land Law Acts. I. Where in connection with any proceedings under and in pursuance of the Land Law Acts, the parties are by the General Rules of the Irish Land Commission, dated the 2nd day of January 1897,* and the Forms thereunder, as well as by any Rules incorporated therewith, required, in setting forth the particulars of a holding, to state the name of the Poor Law Union within which such holding is situate, they shall henceforth, in lieu thereof, specify the name of the Rural, or Urban, or partly Rural and partly Urban District, within the meaning of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898,+ within which the holding which is the subject of the proceedings is situate, and all Forms issued under the Rules in question shall from this date be deemed to stand amended accordingly, and after the date hereof no notice shall be received (except by leave of the Court) unless the particulars now required to be furnished are supplied. II. Where an application is made to the Court to fix a Fair Rent of a Holding, such application shall be accompanied (a) by an Extract from the Valuation Books, showing for the year referred to in the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, as the Standard Financial Year, the valuation of the agricultural land, and other hereditaments comprised in the holding (such extract to be certified by the proper officer of the Valuation Office in Dublin), or (b) by the prescribed certificate issued by the Secretary of the County Council, including the Town Clerk of a County Borough, in accordance with the provisions of Section 54 (10) of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898. *Printed at pp. 47-131 above. +61 & 62 Vict c. 37. III. Urban and Rural District Councillors shall be qualified to witness the signature of a tenant, as well as the other persons referred to in No. 95 of the General Rules of the 2nd January 1897. IV. Where a Fair Rent is fixed by the Court after the day upon which the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, comes into operation, and which is referred to in that Act as the Appointed Day, the Schedule under Section 1 of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1896,* shall be in Form No. 39, 39A, or 39B, appended hereto, according as the holding is situate in a Rural District or partly in a Rural and partly in an Urban District, or in an Urban District, within the meaning of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, respectively, and the Form No. 39 prescribed by No. 133 of the General Rules of the 2nd January 1897, shall cease to be applicable from that day. V. Number 80 of the Rules of the 2nd January 1897, and so much of Numbers 83 and 84 of these Rules as refer to the certified extract from the Valuation Books, are hereby rescinded, save in cases where the Order appealed against, bears date on or before the day referred to in the foregoing Rule as the Appointed Day. (L.S.) R. E. Meredith. The Forms referred to in No. IV. of the foregoing Rules. Form No. 39. SCHEDULE referred to in the order of even date herewith fixing a fair rent. LAND LAW (IRELAND) ACT, 1896. Holding in Rural of Particulars of Holding ascertained and recorded pursuant to Section I. of the above Act, and Section 55 of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898. 2. Is the holding suitably used? What is the present condition of the holding as to cultivation, and of the holding and the buildings thereon, as to deterioration or otherwise? If there is deterioration, state how it is shown and has apparently been caused, and give like particulars as to any improved condition. 3. Particulars of Tenement Valuation, Rates, &c.— A. (1) Tenement Valuation of Agricultural Land in (2) Tenement Valuation of Non-Agricultural Heredita- £ £ Total Tenement Valuation £ B. Standard Amount under Local Government (Ireland) . (1) County Cess upon Agricultural Land in Holding . £ £ Total Standard Amount of Rates on Holding £ The benefit to the Tenant from the Agricultural Grant is half the above-stated amount of the County Cess upon Agricultural Land, and the benefit to the Landlord from said Grant is half the above-stated amount of Poor Rate upon Agricultural Land. 5. State the annual sum which should be the fair rent of the holding on the assumption that all improvements thereon (including Buildings) were made or acquired by the Landlord, and give details of Valuation. Description of the several classes of land with the quantities of each class set out separately, giving the rate per acre. The several classes of grass and tillage land to be so specified that it may be apparent how much of each description is contained in the holding; each class separately valued to be marked with a letter to correspond with a letter on the map, and the boundaries of such class to be indicated on the map. * 33 & 34 Vict. c. 46. |