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CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.

MEETING THIS DAY.

The eleventh annual meeting was held this day at Exeter
Hall.

The SECRETARY (Mr, Gnmeisen) read the advertise-
ment convening the meeting.
The NOBLE CHAIRMAN (Viscount Ranelagh) read the
following report of the Executive Committee :
The Executive Committee, in presenting their eleventh
aunual report, have the pleasure to submit therewith the
balance sheet and statement of accounts for the financial
year ending the 30th of September, 1863. The members,
at the quarterly meeting on the 20th October last, having
elected Mr. Harding and the Rev W. Goodchild, and the
board having appointed Messrs. Astbury and Winstanley,
the four auditors verified the vouchers and banks on the
11th and 12th of November, and signed the balance sheet.
The shares issued and total cash receipts for the respective
quarters of the year 1862-3, the totals for the year, and the
the grand totals since the commencement of the Conserva-
tive Land Society, in September, 1852, are shown in the
annexed table :

Shares in Shares Total Receipts.
Qrs. ending progress. Complete. Shares.
£ s. d.
Dec. 24, 18f2 136 • 67 203 15,946 15 2
March 25, 1863 2OB 24 232 150113 19 11
June 24, 18e3 255 91 346 20,697 2 0
Sept. 30, 1863 178 67 215 23,496 8 4
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Totals for the
year 1862-1863 777 249 1,026 75,751 5 5
Totals to Sept
30,1862 14,760 3,925 18,685 625,392 13 2
Grand totals to
Michaelmas,'63 15,537 4,174 19,711 701,146 18 7

The increase in the receipts of the year
1862-3 over the corresponding year of
1861-2 is
being one of the largest cash receipts
since the formation of the society.
The total withdrawals since the formation
of the society (Sept., 1852), to Michael-
mas, 1863, are .. £205,883 8 0

The returns of the register of the order of rights are as
Follow :
Completed. Drawn. Seniority. Tot Al.
5,061 3,191 1,681 9,933
Deduct rights exercised on estates, .... 7,501

Unexercised rights
The last share number on the register by seniority is No.
.3,853, and the last share issued up to the 30th September,

1863, was No. 19,711.

The members, on reference to the balance sheet, will see
hat the subscriptions on shares during the year 1862-63
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amounted to £27,193 4s 9d, and that the cash received in
the deposit department was £21,190 16s Bd. The with-

drawals on shares were £12,722 Os Bd, and on deposits

£13,610 19s hi. The total amount of subscriptions on

shares in the society was £123,592 2s lid up to the 30th of
September, 1863. The total amount of investments in the
deposit department at the close of the financial year was
£24,995 10s 11d. During the past year the sum of £5,150
12s 10d was withdrawn from the share account to pay for

plots of land. The repayments of loans on land amounted
to £13,946 19s 10d. The amount advanced for the same
year to allottees, borrowing seven-eighths of the coat of
their land, was £11,342 8s 9d. The total balance of advances
to allottees on land account is £28,136 14s 4d, The balance
sheet shows a sale of land on the allotments of 1862-63 of
£4,287 10s ld, and the sale of the stock on hand (being
land previously allotted) and by private contract wa5£11,396
5s 6d, the total sale for the year being £15,683 15s 7d,
bringing up the grand totals of the sale of land at
Michaelmas, 1863, to' 830,370 8s sd. The freehold building
plots in various counties for sale amount to £77,534 is 6d.
As regards the advances for building during the past year.
the repayments were £7,353 lOs 10d. The amount ad-
vanced for building, &a., in 1863 has been £14,316 4s,
bringing up the total advances for building, &c., to
£43,165 Os 4d. The reserve fund is now £10,461 16s 10d.
After providing for the interest of 5 per cent. per annum on
shares, and 4 per cent. per annum for deposits, the balance
sheet shows an available balance out of which the execu-
tive committee are enabled, as provided by the rules, to add

;o the accounts of members (in their pass-books) holding

uncompleted shares, in respect of which plots on estates
have not been taken, and for which the half-yearly interest
warrants have not been issued, a bonus, or, in other words,
Interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. Thus, every

payment into the society on shares not in arrear. and on
the register at the annual meeting, will realise 5 per cent.
per annum for the year ending the 30th of September, 1863.
As regards the interest on completed shares and sbarea in
progress, paid a year in advance and upwards, for which
the half-yearly warrants up to Lady-day and Michaelmas
are issued on the Ist of May and the Ist of November re-
spectively, the rate will remain at 5 per cent. per annum,
and at 4 per cent per annum on investments in the deposit
department, under rule 45, until further notice. The ordi-
nary quarterly meetings were duly held at the offices in
Norfolk-street, on the 31st of March, the 30th of June, and
the 20th of October. Captain 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
lagestre, M.P. ; Col. Brownlow Knox, M.P.; Captain
Jervis, M.P. ; T. Knox Holmes, Esq. ; who offer them-
selves for re-election. The first allotment of estates took
place on the 18th of February, of the first portion of the
Wanstead estate, in South Essex ; the final portion
of the Woodbury Park estate, Tunbridge-wells, in
West Rent ; ground rents at Roman-road, Oli
Ford, &c. On the Bth of July, the Stoke Road
estate, Ipswich, was offered with ground rents on the
Roman Road estate, besides the Castle Hill estate, Read-
ing, 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 Henwick Road estate, West Wor-
cestershire, 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 Bth of July, at
which Viscount Ranelagh was the chairman, supported by
J. C. Cobbold, Esq., M.P., one of the trustees of the society,
the Hon. and Rev. W. C. Talbot, and Capt. Jervis, M.P.,
members of the board; and at Worcester on the 17th of
August, at which Sir E. Lechmere, Bart., presided, and at
which Viscount Ranelagh, the Hon. and Rev. W. C. Tal'
hot, and the Hon. Robert Bourke, attended as a deputation
from the board. The new estates purchased for the society
during the past year were, Avenue or Bevois Mount estate,
at Southampton, Hants; the Stoke Road estate, close to the
Ipswich station; and the Henwick Road, Worcester. An-
other estate was also acquired at Ramsgate, but the agent's
sale thereof not being ratified by the owner, it was not con-
sidered expedient 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 completion of the title, the executive committee have
not yet been enabled to deal with the property. The Wood-
house mansion, with about four acres of land at the extre-
mity of the estate, has been sold to a public institution.
This sale has rendered a new plan of the Wanstead estate
necessary, on which excellent building sites, in large or
small quantities, have been mapped. Owing to the exten-
sion of railroad enterprise in the direction of that popular
neighbourhood, a demand for the land at Wanstead has
sprung up. The roads on the allotted portion of the pro-
perty are now completed. The Great Eastern Railway
Company have liberally granted privileges to the occupants
of houses erected, or to be erected, on Um society's estates at
Enfield and Tottenham, in Middlesex; Wanstead and Col-
cheater, inEssex; and Felixstowe and Ipswich, in Suffolk, by
the issue of house tickets onvery moderate terms. These rail-
way passes will no doubt be an incentive to building opera-
tions, in the forthcoming year, on the estates enumerated
above. The Bishop of Oxford has recently laid the first
stone of the new church on the Downshire-square 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 roar, instead of in
the centre, of Downshirc-square, as originally intended.
The opening of the Underground Railway, and the
general extension of the metropolitan lines, have already
acted beneficially on the suburban estates of the society,
and a fresh impetus to building operations may
be expected, as the new railroadd progress. The
works on the Colchester estate, and
the Woodbury
Park estate, Tunbridge Wells, have been completed ; the
Putney Heath estate works are nearly finished; and tenders
have been advertised for the works on the HenwieLl'mad
estate, Worcester. It is proposed by the board to offer :2r
allotment the second portion of the Colchester estate in the
spring. The executive committee have under consideration
several important properties ; and, as a considerable reali-
sation on the estates bought during the past year may be
looked for, there is every promise of another successful year
for 1861, especially as a very valuable town estate has just
been acquired for allotment. Owing to the railway passing
through the Kentish-town estate,a new plan has been issued.
The registration returns from nearly all the localities
have been quite successful as regards the claims of allottees