present system
We
& Sauces
me
taxation. For the
futner hoe shall look. I table it. largely to land revenue, and monof the most important Subjects ar sabing the third paint to consider is The Land question. Hp 6.7. and 4.13
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that the Chinese are auxions about
I gatha this and that we must be very careful in dealing with it. Unless M. Lockhart is sotified that we have a good man for
in Hongkong. I think we must
purpose bend to the straits fo
had
for the
a man who hay
d
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experience both of Chinese & of land experience. There has been no land question
Settlement.
at Horykay, but they have had a great
Kay! deal of experience of the subject in the Straite I in the Malay states: it will probably be necessary to cuate an office g Commissioner for
Native
Surveyors
a certain time
Land
should or procured from Ceylon as suggested on p. 13 of the but they should work not under
repent
the land grice, but under the Director of
Public Works, unless it is decided to have from the first a first class server.
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ameld
Ew
in that
case,
More ext
expense will be involved at the time & we should perhaps affle
for an P. E.
•ffice & make Would his surveyors quite independent of the Public Walle department. This wom.
saring Mobably be a
in the long
run but
on the shoe I incline to what is cheaper I rougher for the time being
We must lay down from the first that the lund tax wis be subject to revision at
*This is intervals of youve.
vay
helets 1.
The land will become more & more.
valuable, in human
man probability & there
aild the system on which
should be no doubt on what prind ply the tax wil be levied & collected. The Chinamen
will reading pay at the start alat ubat they are paying now. as they will be bet free from the additional squeezes
the mandarins.
ди
The Viceroy of Canton dew up regulations for the ceded teritory, one of which
Land oined by Chinese subjecti
Tuns
within the new setflendent must pay. the land tax to the Chinese authorities
in a letter of the
The Farign Mice
26 Sepia hable agreed
as
to the ithadmis-