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keves to

Ordinances therein. smulerated are

as

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The land question however

is one allich must be dealt with immediates,

I

homptly cepecially if as you have stated in hom telegram of the 24th M. Jecember the land Is being bought up

Chinese in antici

and

Fo

follows:-

Ordinance 3 of 1844 Land etc.

Registra-

4.property.

tionof deeds, it, selating to real-

10

I concur in Mr.Goodman's opinion

that for the reasons given by him this

Ordinance need not be excluded, One of

Must the first steps to be taken however will

be the appointment of a surveyim-

am

ficer with a staff of native surveyors,

St

who I may here observe it will probably

by

anticipation

this Suficat I in avlater

this i

refer paragraph of desfatch

I hope brought this

in lla

§ As

be found desirable to procure from

Ceylon, or possibly from the Straits

Settlements; and in order to expedite

the work of registration, holders of land

should be allowed to register their

titles at an office in the new territory,

instead of having to waste time by coming

to an office in Victoria. The officer

moreover, who is entrusted with the duty

of settling the land question should bo

settling

ч

given