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annual receipts of the holders of the Chinese Title Deeds.

By these arrangements the Taxlords

get legal titles to areas of unoccupied lands in place of

rights, mostly illegal, over cultivated lands which they

cannot identify. They will doubtless suffer some loss of

income (which may ultimately be made up by enhanced value

of land in the New Territory) but against this it has to

be borne in mind that they are relieved of the services

for which the former payments were made to them e.g. col-

-lection of taxes, payment of official exactions, provision

of theatrical shows, maintenance of roads,etc.

6.

In accordance with these princi-

-ples for dealing with claims of the 2nd. and 3rd. classes

291 acres of Crown Land have been offered in compensation

to Taxlords whose claims have been disallowed by the Land

Court; 164 acres have been accepted and 127 acres have been

refused. The conditions attaching to these grants of land

are that Crown Leases for 75 years renewable for 24 years

less three days shall be issued in respect of the land;

that the land may be used either for building or agricultu-

-ral purposes; that no Crown Rent shall be charged for the

first five years of the lease; and that thereafter Crown

Rent shall be assessed at the same rates as on land allowed

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