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his name. Then each lessee who applies for it is granted
as evidence of his title to the land an extract from the
schedule certified by the Land Officer.
4.
Now that the issue of these cer-
-tified extracts is in progress, very numerous errors in
the existing schedules come to light, either reported or
admitted by the parties concerned to be mistakes.
A man who has been given a clear
title as owner comes forward and states that he is not the
owner but only a mortgagee; in some cases it is found that
mortgages reported had already been redeemed; there are
instances of a man having given his brother's or father's
or grandfather's or remote ancestor's instead of his own
name; many wrong addresses have also been entered.
5.
In these and other ways, errors
not attributable to the Land Court but due to the ignorance
or obtuseness of the claimants, have crept into the
schedules very largely affecting their accuracy.
6.
Various proposals were made by
the Crown Solicitor and the Assistant Land Officer, Mr. C.
Clementi, to cope with this state of affairs, and in the
end, after full consideration, I decided that the evil
could be easily and summarily dealt with only by introduc-
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