CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898 — Page 64

present system

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& Sauces

me

taxation. For the

futner hoe shall look. I table it. largely to land revenue, and monof the most important Subjects ar sabing the third paint to consider is The Land question. Hp 6.7. and 4.13

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that the Chinese are auxions about

I gatha this and that we must be very careful in dealing with it. Unless M. Lockhart is sotified that we have a good man for

in Hongkong. I think we must

purpose bend to the straits fo

had

for the

a man who hay

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experience both of Chinese & of land experience. There has been no land question

Settlement.

at Horykay, but they have had a great

Kay! deal of experience of the subject in the Straite I in the Malay states: it will probably be necessary to cuate an office g Commissioner for

Native

Surveyors

a certain time

Land

should or procured from Ceylon as suggested on p. 13 of the but they should work not under

repent

the land grice, but under the Director of

Public Works, unless it is decided to have from the first a first class server.

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21715

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in that

case,

More ext

expense will be involved at the time & we should perhaps affle

for an P. E.

•ffice & make Would his surveyors quite independent of the Public Walle department. This wom.

saring Mobably be a

in the long

run but

on the shoe I incline to what is cheaper I rougher for the time being

We must lay down from the first that the lund tax wis be subject to revision at

*This is intervals of youve.

vay

helets 1.

The land will become more & more.

valuable, in human

man probability & there

aild the system on which

should be no doubt on what prind ply the tax wil be levied & collected. The Chinamen

will reading pay at the start alat ubat they are paying now. as they will be bet free from the additional squeezes

the mandarins.

ди

The Viceroy of Canton dew up regulations for the ceded teritory, one of which

Land oined by Chinese subjecti

Tuns

within the new setflendent must pay. the land tax to the Chinese authorities

in a letter of the

The Farign Mice

26 Sepia hable agreed

as

to the ithadmis-