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Chinese Commissioners:-

Whing - hoeas-ju,

Magistrate of the District

of Hesin rigan.

Assisted by

Feng-wen- hai,

Sub - Magistrate of Kow-loon;

Wheng Yu- tang.

Colonel Commanding of Taiping.

At the first meeting to arrange the

mode of proceeding, the Kowloon Magistrate

intimated that he had

few

or no records

in his office of the Land within the -

District, for

the

greater part of it was

waste which had been squalled upon many

years

Since, and on which no

Government

مع

tax had been paid

from

or

the

one

nor had the transfers

squatter to another been registered,

people interfered with - The British the necessity of

Commissioners urged

obtaining Some information on the subject, and

requested the Mbagistrate to supply

of

Sisto

the bona fide Proprietors and Sub. Tenants with their holdings. Subsequently the

Magistrate handed in Documents:

Return

of

the Population - Names

of the People- the places occupied - the

rate

of

Faxes

paid - Names of Tenants-

-

rate of premium paid for Land in Kowloon.

Squatters without license, but in a measure recognized by the Local Authorities

Houses in the Village of - Chim-sa-choi not authorised by

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