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greatly increased the expense and difficulty of 

 transfer. In order to test this statement, I 

 proceeded to register a small piece of land to 

 demonstrate to the Boston lawyers what could 

 be done under the Act. 



" ' I went to the Land Registry Office in 

 London, and in less than one hour I had, 

 without the intervention of a solicitor, registered 

 five acres of land in two parishes at a cost of 

 £l : 4 : 6d. I was very interested to find that 

 no less a personage than the then Prime 

 Minister, Lord Rosebery, was at the same 

 time registering some of his land under 

 the Act. 



•• • Previous to registering this land, as 

 an absolute owner with a possessory title I 

 had owned it for eleven years. I have just 

 recently entered into an agreement to sell 

 it to the Rural District Council for housing 

 purposes. I understand that the Clerk to the 

 Rural District Council will be prepared to 

 accept the title as registered ; we shall apply 

 in due course to the Registry Office for the 

 necessary transfer, and all will be done without 

 the intervention of lawyers, at an ad valorem 

 cost of about lis.'" 



We shall have to face the tragedy of rural 



