No./.
Hongkong.
sir,
onclosure !
Atte é spare copse:.) snclosure 2.
to December, 1902.
-D
31 JAN 031
Goverment House,
Hongkong, 2nd. January, 1903.
I have the honour to transmit for the
signification of His Majesty's pleasure Ordinance No. 47 of
1902 entitled "The New Territories Titles Ordinance 1902".
Under Section 14 of Ordinance No. 18 of
2.
1900 a report is made to the Governor when a claim to land in
New Kowloon and the New Territories is allowed by the Land
Court in order that a title appropriate to the case may be
granted".
3.
The question as to what that title should
be was referred for advice to the then Attorney-General
(Mr. now Sir . Goodman) Mr. Gompertz (President of the Land
Court) and Mr. Wakeman (Acting Land Officer), and they recom-
mended that in New Kowloon the title when practicable should
be a Crown Lease under the existing law of the Colony, and
that for the remainder of the New Territories an Ordinance
should be passed creating a Land Registry upon lines analogous
to the Torrens' system, the title being derived from Registra-
tion and not requiring an elaborate system of conveyancing.
The reasons for making this distinction
4.
are
as follows.-
Owing to its proximity to Hongkong and Kowloon it
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
&c...
&C.*
WAS
5
Page