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and cultivators of the cultivated land and of the area of the
land cultivated by each should be ascertained and verified on
the spot.
I enclose copy of a memorandum on the subject
by the Deputy Land Officer whose recommendations Sir Henry
Blake approved.
It is contemplated that the cadastral survey
which is being made can be utilised to some extent by the Sur-
veyor for Rent Roll purposes, but the work of the two surveys being wholly distinct and seeing that the survey for Rent Roll
purposes will work much more rapidly than the cadastral sur-
vey, it is not possible usefully to combine the two.
As it is urgently necessary to proceed with the compilation of a Rent Roll (no Crown rent at all having
been collected as yet from the large area of cultivated land in the New Territory),Mr.B. W. Grey, Temporary Land Surveyor in the Public Works Department, has been detailed for duty with the Rent Roll survey, and Mr. A. Watson, Clerk and Storekeeper in the Gaol, who has a knowledge of Cantonese Colloquial, has been selected as Clerk, while a new temporary appointment of Inter- preter and Translator has been found necessary to which Mr. A. S. Wong, son of Mr.J.C.Wong, Clerk in the Land Office has been appointed.
The additional expenditure entailed for the
present is as follows:-
Mr.