CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4] — Page 10

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the remainder of the term of lease from China.

In the meantime pending application

for an issue of

Crown Leases in cases where the claims have been determined

Crown Rent will be collected both for cultivated and uncultivat-

ed land under regulations made under Ordinance No. 12 of 1899.

I enclose a copy of these rules for your information.

Similarly in the New Territories a rent roll based

on actual demarcation of lands claimed is being prepared and

rent (which is in the meantime being collected, as far as it

is possible to do so, under a rough rent roll based on claims

made but not on actual demarcation on the spot) will be col-

lected on it under similar regulations pending the transfer

of the lots in respect of which claims are allowed to the

Register of Titles under the Titles Ordinance, when they will

still continue to pay rent under the same regulations.

6.

You will observe that under the Ordinance

the Titles Office means a branch of the Hongkong Land Office,

and that the Registrar of Titles means an Officer appointed

for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the

Ordinance.

The branch can therefore be established in the Hong-

Kong Land Office itself and the Registrar may be an Officer

of the Hongkong Land Office, or different arrangements can be

made if it is found that they are necessary.

7.

With regard to the powers conferred by

the Ordinance on the Registrar of Titles they are of two kinds

viz.- those conferred under Section 12, and the wider powers

generally

embodied in the Ordinance which leaves all matters connected

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with the transfer and transmission of customary land and its charge

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