Registrar-Generals-Department-Annual-report-1950-1951 — Page 9

LAND OFFICE.

ANNUAL REPORT.

(1.4.50—31.3.51).

TABLE I.

MARINE DEPARTMENT LIBRARY

Number of Instruments registered and Crown Leases granted during the Years 1935 to 1950/51.

Instruments registered

Year

Crown Leases granted

1935

4,044

503

1936

3,962

638

1937

3,347

742

1938

3,752

520

1939

3,839

497

1946/47

4,228

18

1947/48

6,391

6

1948/49

6,779

86

1949/50

6,814

247

1950/51

6,600

176

TABLE II.

Consideration Stated in Instruments Registered in the Land Office for the period of 1st April, 1950-31st March, 1951.

Description of

Instruments

No. of Lots

Number Registered

or portion

of Lots Affected

Total Consideration

$

Assignments

2,437

2,925

109,222,674.22

Mortgages & Transfer

of Mortgages

1,222

1,588

71,902,429.20

Reassignments & Certi-

ficates of Satisfaction.

1,526

1,848

63,332,478,52

Surrenders

95

115

228,262.00

Judgments and Order

of Court

189

234

Miscellaneous

Documents

842

1,309

468,500.00

Probates & Letters of

Administration

(Estate Duties &

Interest $2,360,451.67)

289

636

Total

6,600

8,655

245,154,343.94

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