Allotments Acts (acquisition of land by local authorities) : returns of the number of instances in which (1) rural sanitary authorities, under the provisions of "the Allotments Act, 1887," and (2) county councils, under the provisions of the Allotments Acts, 1887 and 1890, have acquired land for allotments by (1) compulsory purchase; (2) purchase by agreement; (3) hire by agreement; showing, in each case, the parish within which such land has been acquired, the acreage, and the number of tenants to whom allotments have been let under the act; and of the rural sanitary authorities who have not taken land for allotments, and in each case the reasons why the authority have not provided land for the purpose, whether in consequence of their deeming it unnecessary to do so, or otherwise - Grande-Bretagne. House of Commons