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Land Surveyor, whom it is "proposed to obtain from England. This will be

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new

office,

and

a

a

purely

temporary and provisional

one.

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The duties will comprise

the measuring and parcelling

out of all Crown Lands, at present occupied by Squatters, trespassers, and poachers, all over the island and Kowloon,

and

the preparation of maps sale plans for the holding of periodical auction sales

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"all

of

all these lands, and the

many.

other duties connected with

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the

preparation of parchment tracings, computation of Crown Rent, setting out of boundaries,

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and marking out proposed

roads, levels, etc...

of this "Land Surveyor be engaged

and set to work in the

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realization of this proposition,

I estimate that he will be

the means

a million

of putting

of

dollars into the

Colonial Treasury in premiums -

"alon ::