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12. Mr. Spencer is junior to Mr. Douglas, but he is an efficient surveyor, and what is now required is an officer with slightly higher rank and better qualifications (such as the difference of £60 per annum between his salary of £240 per annum and that now offered of £300 per annum would procure) to carry out the duties of the Inspector now asked for. Should the Director-General of the Ordnance Survey be unable to provide such an officer, recourse might be had to the Crown Agents, who originally obtained the services of Mr. Douglas.
13. I might be allowed to add that to employ such a large staff without pro- viding it with adequate supervision is likely to lead to a great deal of money being wasted.
14. Law XII. of 1907 is a necessity in Cyprus. If it is well administered it is likely to prove of great beneft to the people and to the Government, the work will proceed rapidly and accurately, and there will be no complaints. If, on the other hand, adequate supervision is not given, it may lead to much hardship and injustice, and give rise to more complaints than existed before the Law was passed.
15. The present members of the Legislative Council are all interested in the work in the first place because the law is one of their own making, and, secondly, in their capacity as advocates. They are very pressing about its execution to its full extent as soon as possible. In view of this, I beg respectfully to ask that the Right Honourable the Secretary of State may be asked if he will graciously give the matter his attention as soon as convenient to him.
Nicosia, Cyprus,
14th September, 1911.
F. ONGLEY,
Registrar-General.
REGULATIONS WITH RESPECT TO APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTION IN THE LAND REGISTRY Department of CYPRUS.
1. The clerical staff of the Land Registry Department will consist of :—
2 Land Registry Clerks, Class
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I., at £168 by £6 to £204. II., at £132 by £6 to £156. III., at £108 by £3 to £128. IV., at £78 by £3 to £102. V., at £36 by £3 to £72. VI., at £18 by £3 to £24.
Total Land Registry Clerks of all grades, 140.
2. Persons nominated by the High Commissioner for appointment in the Land Registry Department, must, before taking up their first appointment, satisfy the
Government:-
(1) As to their character and competency;
(2) As to their being in sound health, and they must pass the medical
examination;
(3) As to their proficiency in the Turkish or Greek languages, preference being given to candidates having a knowledge of both these languages. (For this purpose the pass certificate of the Idadi or the Apolyterion of a Greek gymnasium or high school will be accepted);
(4) That they have passed the English ordinary standard test prescribed for
Government examinations.
3. Clerks, Class VI., on their appointment, will at once receive salary at the rate stated in paragraph 1, but they may, at the annual examination next following. pass the qualifying test for Class V., and, on passing, will be raised to that grade when there is a vacancy.
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4. A Clerk, Class VI., failing to pass the test for promotion to the grade of Class V. within three years will be liable to be discharged.
5. The qualifying test for Class V. shall comprise the following subjects :-
(1) Arithmetic, to include addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division,
and vulgar and decimal fractions;
(2) The preparation of tabulated statements with calculations of averages and
percentages.
(3) Copying plans;
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(4) The laws affecting the procedure of the Land Registry Department in the
following matters :-
(a) The registration of sales and mortgages (Laws XIX. of 1900
and IV. of 1892);
(b) The enforcement of contracts of sale (Law XI. of 1885); (c) The sale of mortgaged property (Law XIII. of 1890); (d) So much of the Civil Procedure Amendment Laws (X. of 1863, VIII. of 1894, VII. of 1895. IX. of 1896, and II. and IV. of 1898) and the Rules of Court and Rules of Sale there- under, as relate to the attachment and sale of immovable property for debt, and the registration by judgment creditors of their debtors' properties, together with the Debtors' Relief Law (XVI. of 1889).
6. Every person selected for appointment to Class IV. must pass the prescribed examination in the subjects mentioned in the seventh paragraph. appointments to Class IV., the High Commissioner will pay special regard to char- In making acter, probity, qualifications, industry, and intelligence.
7. The qualifying test for Class IV. will comprise the following:-
(1) The lower standard examination in Greek, if the mother tongue of the clerk be Turkish; the lower standard examination in Turkish, if the mother tongue be Greek; and, in other cases, the lower standard of both Turkish and Greek;
(2) The theory of surveying and practical surveying to the extent of plotting
a holding and drawing a plan of the same to scale;
(3) The laws affecting the business of the Land Registry Department, which, in addition to those set out in paragraph 6 (4), shall include :-
(a) The tenure of immovable property in Cyprus as regulated by the Ottoman Laws and Instructions translated in Ongley's "Land Code" and the statute law of the Island;
(b) The laws of inheritance and testamentary disposition of immovable property, viz., Arazi Mirie and Arazi Mevcoufe (Law of 17 Mouharrem 1284);
Mulk Estates:-
(I.) of Mahomedans (the Sheri Law as far as descent
to the first collateral branch);
(II.) Of other than Mahomedans (Laws VIII. of 1884,
XVI. of 1894, and XX. of 1895);
Vakf properties held in Idjaretein (Laws of 17 Mouharrem, 1284; 2 Zilkadi, 1285; 4 Redjeb, 1292; 15 Zilkadi, 1292; 9 Rebi-ul-Evel, 1293; and Law's XVI. of 1894 and XX. of 1895);
(c) So much of the Mejele as deals with the following subjects :-
Water and water rights, together with Laws VI. of 1896 and IV. of 1897.
Pre-emption.
Prescription, including Laws VI. of 1886 and V.
of 1887, as to the acquisition of title by adverse possession.
Rights in immovable property.
8. The qualifying test for Class III. will comprise the following:-
(1) The higher standard examination in English;
(2) The final legal examination, which, in addition to the subjects set out in
paragraphs 6 (4) and 7 (3), shall include :-
(a) The "Feraiz," or Mahomedan Law of Inheritance in full;
(b) Omar Hilmi Effendi's treatise of the Evkaf laws;
(c) The various decisions of the Supreme Court, as published in
the Cyprus Law Reports, hearing on the laws governing the tenure of property and the procedure of the Land Registry Department;