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paid 9 9s. The payments were to be made in 

 half-yearly instalments, payable in advance. 



Nine men paid for their plots outright, and 

 eighteen had paid off by 1905. 



FORMATION OF LANDHOLDERS' COURT. 



In connection with this small-holdings scheme, 

 Major Poore has established what he calls a Land- 

 holders' Court, with the view of ' giving the small 

 holder a full responsibility and a direct and sole 

 interest in the land he holds, and at the same time 

 of setting up a common or mutual interest, which, 

 while conserving the personal interest, shall build 

 up an insurance by teaching the judicial method of 

 bringing every mind in unison for common benefit.' 



It was originally registered as a limited liability 

 company, with nominal shares, and every purchaser 

 of a lot was entitled to one share of 5s. ; but it was 

 found more convenient to change it to a company 

 limited by guarantee. The executive work of the 

 court is the collection of rates, tithes, and rents, 

 the land being rated as a whole as belonging to the 

 Court. 



The holdings are not actually conveyed to the 

 purchasers, but let to them on a lease of 999 years. 

 By this means, as the Court holds the lease, legal 

 expenses are very much reduced in the transfer of 

 land in case of resale. 



There remains, after all the land has been paid 

 for, a surplus fund, which amounts to about 1,050 

 over and above the original cost and expenses con- 



