charge is $15 for the first instrument and $2 for each additional instrument. 16 deposits were made during the year.
Liaison with Legal Profession
61. From time to time the Land Office issues Circular Memoranda to all Solicitors on matters of land policy and Land Office practice. During the year one such Memorandum, being No. 33 in the series, was issued. New Solicitors are supplied with back numbers on request.
Crown Rents
62. Tables IX and X give details of the numbers of lots on the Principal and Village Rent Rolls. The number of lots on the Principal Rent Roll increased by 398 to 23,935 and the total Crown rent by $155,067 to $4,254,701.
63. The number of lots on the Village Rent Roll, totalling 1,094 produce only $972 per annum, most of the rents being less than $1. In order to reduce the cost of collection, Demand Notes for rents of less than $5 per annum are now issued every five years instead of annually. The last five-yearly collection was for the five years ending 30th September 1964.
64. The Crown rents of 279 sections of lots were determined under the Crown Rents (Apportionment) Ordinance. Applications under this Ordinance may be made either by the owner of the Remaining Portion of a lot, in which case the rents of all the sections are determined, or by a section owner, in which case the rent of his section only is determined, the rent of the remainder of the lot being reduced correspondingly. Upon determination of the rent of a section the owner is deemed to hold the section as if a separate Crown lease for it had been grant to him at the determined rent.
New Street Index
65. The 28th Edition of the Index of Streets, House Numbers and Lots in Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Kowloon, familiarly known as the 'Street Index', was compiled by the Land Office in 1967 and published in May 1968. Since 1956, when the first post-war edition of the Index was published, a card index has been maintained in the Land Office into which the necessary particulars for the next edition have been entered as new lots have been sold and new sections carved out, new streets formed and old streets extended or renumbered. The prep- aration of the 28th Edition involved the scrutiny of nearly 250,000
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