CO129-085 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [1-4] — Page 439

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make, came to the opinion, the actual rights

of Owners, Lesers,

Mortgagees

or

Cultivators,

There is

every

reason to believe that the

Coned only be ascertained as the Land is.

required, portion by portion.

whole of the Deeds are not in; particularly

those

of Mortgage, and they will turn up only

when the Land is required to be surrendered.

There are

four Villages-

Me

ong

Mok

Me ataoro

Aba taow Chong

Too- Ma wan.

which have not been valued, as they are for inland, and not likely to be required at present.

tentil a careful Government Survey

is made of the available Sand, it is ~

to make a correct Return of the

impossible

quantities; the Title Deeds lodged in the

Commission are no

guide, it being the Custom among the Chinese to enter less than the

true areas in their Documents, and many

years

old, and without

ostensibly 150 Statement of quantities

f

the value of the land it

of them are os

any

As

regards

the uses to which it is applied:

be taken at the

depends much on

Garden grounds may

rate of from forty to fifty dollars per mow

(Six mow average an

Rice

per Mow.

Beach

Sea

English Acre).

ground from thirty to forty, dollars

ground, at ten dollars per mowo.

frontage, undefined, it being