he Land Office of contend should be. wholly separate from the (gurt so that any question arising affecting of a Crown Lease the Land Officer
t
can
stand in his position as such Land Officer and support the Lease he has previously issued...
previously
This is so both in England and other Her Majesty's Colonies. __
There is no doubt in my
Enclosure 2
C 0.
Report by the Seryet Office on our Stiplosis letter dated the 28th December; 1885-
Copy.)
of
my mind that the Lease is in all respects correct and my complaint is simply against the anomaly of the Land Officer afterwards sitting as Sudge altering the boundaries as granted by the Lease agdinst
express evidence of the Surveyor General of the bolony who prepared the plan attached to the Lease and taking away ground for which I have paid the overny no
the
of have the honor to be
My Lord, Your most Obedt Pervt
Matthew & D. Step Rens
The Right Honorable
The Tecretary of State
for the Colonies
Colonial Office Downing Street
London (P.M.)
382
ur Stephew in the latter part
of his letter contouds that the Loud Office
should be wholly separate from the
Court in order that on
arising,
any
quection the Land Officer should be wholly independent, and unbiased, should he be called upon to deal with any. question affecting a leave ivered from the Lord Office;
and he concludes by that his complaint is simply
saying against "the accomaly of the land "Officer afterwards sitting as fudge "altering the boundaries as granted by " the leave." The Land Office has been amixed to and placed under the
superintendence of the Registrar by
order