The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-08 00:00:00

THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.
(THIS DAY.)

•
The eleventh annual meeting wan held at Exeter
Han this day. Mr. GIONLININ, the reereferf Ilevieff reed
the advertisemest convening the meet*. the sable &W-
-OWS, Vieoooat RAZILLAGH, road the sussersd report of the
eseentive committee . .

" Tbeesecutive committee, is presseting their eleveeth
manual report, have the pleasure to submit therewith the
bassos-sheet and statement of aavants for the flneadal
year ending the 30th of September, 1863. The members, at
the quarterly meeting on the 20th of October last, having
elected Mr. Harding and the Rev. W. Goodobild, and the
board haviag appanted Moms. Arthur, and Winstanley,
the four auditors verified the vouchers and books on the
11th sad 12th of November, and signed the bilance-shait.
The shares issued end total cosh receipts for the respective
quarters of the yesr 18623, the totals for the veer, sad the
gaud totals sines the eowessassessat of the Ooneervatiai
Land Society, IN 8ept.,1862, ere shown is the seamed table:

Quarters lefts

Dec. 24,1882
March 26, 1882
lone 24, 1862
/Not to, lel*
Totals tor the year 18
1883
Totalto dept. 30 yi

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Comparing the them Mama with the corresonding
of lb. PoluolthEletr (1861-2), the present table shows ore
Senses of 11,8601. 35., being one of the largest cub niesipts
gime the formation of the eo y. The total withdrawals
from September, 1852, to 11. 1863, is 206,8831. 85.
The retires of the order of rights are se follow
5,061; draws, 3,191 • seniority, 1,681 ;-Toilal, 9,933.
Deduct rights exercised re estates, k., 7,501 ;-arsesse-
rimed eighth 2,432. After the roads' boobies of the
annual meeting (this day), there will boa drawing 50 share
numbers, sad 96 shares will be added to the seniority list.
The last number on the share register by seniority is No.
13,853; and the last share issued up to the 30th September,
1863, was No. 19,711. The members, is ?Morocco to
the balsoca-shest. will see that the satheriptions as shares
during the year 1842-3 amounted to 27,1831. 4s. 9d„ aid
that the cub received in the deposit department was
21,1901. 16s. Bd. The withdrawals os shares ware 12,7221.
Oa. 8c1.; and on deposita, 13,610/. 19a. Id. The total amount
of subscriptions on shares in the society was 121,592/.
2e. 11d. up to September 30, 1863. The total amount at
investments in the deposit department at the close of the
financial Year was 24,995/. 10a. 11d. During the past year
the sum of 5,1501. lb. 10d. was withdrawn frees the share
essuot to pay for plots of Sod. The repayseate of loans
ou land amounted to 13,9461. 19s. 10d. The mount ad-
mooed foe the same year to &Hotta's, borrowing seem-
eights of the oustof their bald, was 11,3421. Be. 9d. The
total balance of advances to allotteu on land assoant
is 28,1361. 14s. 4d. The balance-sheet shows a isle of laid
as the allotments of 1862.63 of 4,2871. 10s. id.; and the
sale of the stock on band (being Sod perevioesly allotted)
sad by private contract was 11,3961. ss. 6.d. ; the total sale
for the year being 15,6834 15a. 7d., bringing up the
totals of the sale of land at Michaelmas, 186: rat!
330,3701. 135. bd. The freehold building plots in
venous counties for sale amount to 77,5341. Is. 6d.
As regards the advances for building during the past year,
thempissisto were 7,353/.los. The amountadvanced
for k., is 1863 has been 14.316!. 4s. besigiograp
the total Tames for building, ko, to 43,16511 Oa. 4d. The
reserve fend is now 10,461/. 16e. 10d. After providing for
the introit of five per cent per annum on .basis, and four
percent per &Daum for deposits, the teducesbest shows
an available balance out of which the executive oommittee
are enabled, as provided by the rules, to add to the account'
of members (in their pasabooks) holding onsempleted
shares, in respect of which plots on state, have not Item
taken, and for which the half-yearly interest wassail' have
sot bees imbed, a boons, or, in other words, interest at the
rate of five per cent. per annum. Thus every payment into
the society on shares not in server, and os the register at
the acsual meeting, will realise five per out. par mount
for the year ending September 30,1863. All regards the is..
tweet on completed shame and Mares in progress, paid a year
In advance and upwards, for which the half-yearly warrant.
tre to lady-day and Michaelmas are Mmed as May 1 and
November 1 respectively, the rate will remain at 5 per mat.
per annum, and at 4 per cent. per annum on investments
in the deposit department, under rule 45, until further
notice. The ordinary quarterly meetings were duly held at
the offices 30 Norfolk-street on March 31, June 30, and Oc-
tober 20. Oersteds Jervis, M.P. has been elected a member
of the board. The following members of the executive
committee retire by rotation, but are eligible for re-election,
namely : -Viscount Ranelagh, Viscount lugedes, M.P.,
Colonel Browniow Knox, M.P., Captain Jervis, ILP., and T.
Knox Holmes, Fog., who offer themselves foe nwelection.
The first allotment of estates took place on February 18,
of the first pontos of the Waostead estate, in
South Essex ; the Anal poetics of the Woodbury
Park estate, Tunbridge Wells. in West Kent ; pound rents
at Roman-road, Old Ford, Ste. On July 8 the Stoke-
rod estate, Ipswich. was offered, with ground roots on the
Roman-road estate, besides the Castle-bill estate, Reading,
a re-allotment of which was rendered necessary owing to
the original site of the church having been changed. On
the 27th of August, the Heowick-road estate, West
Worcestershire, was allotted. Public meetings have been
held to explain the mode of allotting estates, and the
general working of the society, at Ipswich, on the Stir of
Jul
itdat which Viscount Benelagh was the chairman, sup-
by J. C. Cobbold, Esq., M.P., one of the trustees of
the society, the Hon. and Rev. W. 0. Talbot. and Capt.
Jervis, M.P., members of the board ; and at Wore/Mar on
on the 17th of August, at which Sir E. lochmers, Bart,
presided, and at which Viscount Ranelegh, the Hon. and
Rev. W. C. Talbot, sod the Elm Robert Bourke, attended
as a deputation from the board. The new states per.
Moved for the society during the past year were, Avenue or
Bevois Mount estate, et Southampton, Haiti ; the Stoke-
road estate, close to the Ipswich Motion ; sad the Hes-
wick.road,Worcester. Another estate was also acquired at
Ramsgate, but the agent's sale thereof not beteg ratified
by the owser, it was not cousidered expediest to stand
on the preliminary arrangement It was proposed
to have allotted the Southampton estate in October, but
owing to delays on the part of the vendors in the rumple-
Son of the title, the executive committee have net yet bees
enabled to deal with the property. The Woodhouse ses-
sion, with about four acres of land at the extremity of the
estate, has bees sold to a public institution. This sale bas
rendered a new plan of the Wanstead estate oeceseary, on
which excellent building sites in large or small quantities
bane been mapped. Owing to the extension of railroad
enterprise in the direction of that popular neighbourhood, •
demand foe the land at Waustead has sprung up. The roads
on the allotted portion of the property are now completed.
The Great Eastern Company have liberally pasted privi-
leges to the occupants of homes erected, or to be erected,
on the society's estates at Enfield and Totteolum. in Middle-
sex; Wansteed and Oolcheeter, in &sex; and Felixstowe and
Ipswich, in Suffolk, by the DODO of base tickets on very
moderate terms. These railway passes will no doubt
be an incentive to beadles operations in the forth-
coming year es the estates enumerated above.
The Bishop of Oxford has recently laid the first storm of the
new church on the Downshere-equare estate, Reading. The
value of the property will be enhanced by the opening up
of new frontages, in consequence of the erection of the
sacred edifice in the rear, instead of in the centre, of Down-
shire-square, as origioally intended. The opening of the
underground railway, and the plural extension of the
metropolitan lines, have already acted beneficially OD the
suburban estates of the society, and a fresh impetus to
building operations may be expected as the new mama&
progress. The works on the Colchester estate. and
the Woodbury Park estate, Tunbridge Wells. have been com-
pleted ; the Putney Heath rotate works are nearly finished ;
and tenders have bees advertised for the works on the Ren-
wick-rod estate, Worcester. It it proposed by the board to
offer for allotment the second portion of the Colchester estate
in the spring. The executive committee have under consider-
ation several important properties ; and, as • considerable
realisation on the estates bought during the past year may
be looked for, there is every promise of another successful
year for 1864, especially as a very valuable town estate has
just been acquired for allotment Owing to the railway
pardon through the Ruttish Town estate, a new plan has
been issued. The registration returns from nearly all the
localities have been quite successful as regsrds the claims of
'Mottos who have purchased land from the society. la
Brighton, the revising barrister-despite of the over-
whelming evidence of increased development sad
value of the Road Hill Park estate, seldom, which
be totally disregarded-adhered to his original &-
Mimi sotwithatesdiog that other claims. nalogous to those
of the allottess of the society have been allowed. The Con-
servative Land Society is DOW in its twelfth year. It yea
commenced at a period when great sod important interests
intimately connected with the just privilege@ of all classes
were imperilled, and it became the duty of all true patriots
to protect them. The origins] political object of the society
has been completely sucoassful : it has prevented the coun-
ties from being swamped with fictitious votes, and it has
offered to all classes of the community not possessed of the
freehold franchise the opportunity f acquiring it on the
basis of property in land, *bleb, *oozier or later, must be-
come peoStable. The combination of political and pecuniary
advantages las is both instances beep a prosperous move-
meat; sad if the throw incentive to stem has of late
years, owing to the Screw of the conservative tendencies
Is the country, not been so urgent, the social and commer-
cial principles of the Conservative Lend B,ciety have become
still more marked and more developed. The executive com-
mittee feel deeply the importance of the duties devolving on
them ; Sissy will endeavour to secure the continued souses
of the society by exercising the greatest caution in the ac-
quisition of eligible estates for allotment, and by maintain-
ing • system of management which has hitherto proved so
satisfactory to the shareholders."

A ad.
16,966 15 2
16,613 19 11
WIN I 0
13401 6 6
764716 6 6