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482
5.
Under the rough Rent Roll, which
was based on claims laid, agricultural land and land cover-
-ed with houses was lumped together. The rates per house
were therefore much lower.
6.
On the other hand shifting hill-
-side cultivation included in the rough Rent Roll is not
included in the new Rent Roll. The villagers are allowed
to cultivate such patches free of rent under a stipulation
that such cultivation gives them no claim to the land.
7.
The new Rent Roll amounts to
$90,000 as against $53,000 odd on the rough Rent Roll.
8.
it
I attach copy of the form of lease
A
adopted, based on the form of lease in use in the old
Colony. The usual term of lease is 75 years renewable for
24 years less 3 days the remainder of the term of the
Convention under which the New Territories are held. The
current rates of Crown Rent are fixed for the first 10
years of leases and are therefore subject to revision in
1908, when it is proposed to finally fix rates for the re-
-mainder of the term of the leases.
Enclosure 2.
The system adopted for lasue of
leases is to make in each District a schedule of the claims
allowed therein with full particulars of the owners, areas,
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