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If the sons or brothers of the deceased have been sufficiently wary to refrain from claiming any of his land themselves and have had it put in the name of some collateral, the enquiry becomes almost hopeless.
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Mr. Wood has desired a tabular statement which has been filled up from the claim for and may, I hope, prove of considerable assistance in investigating tax lord rights.
I attach herewith in illustration of these notes
1. A copy of an inscription of a stone tablet at K'an T'in (marked 8).
2. A copy of an inscription from Tung Chung (C)
3. Translation of a petition from a tax lord family at Tai Hang (B)
4. Translation of a judgement of the Sau On Magistrate in a typical tax lord case at Shun Tak (8).
5. An essay on grain measures by Gam Chi Kiu (F).
6. A table showing the comparative sizes of various Tau measures compiled by Mr. Wood. (G)
7. An interesting report marked (H) by Mr. Wolfe on eight more or less typical tax lord cases into which he made an enquiry at my request. His experience was what mine has been in similar cases: that there is little chance of finding any common basis of compromise and that in each case an authoritative judgement is absolutely necessary for a definite conclusion.
I have, etc.,
(Signed) H. H. J. Gomperts.