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During this lease the occupant will pay for the first 

 33 years the rent that I have indicated ; after the 33 

 years he will pay for the next 33 years a rent at the 

 rate of 5 per cent, on the unimproved value of the 

 farm ; the farm will then be revalued and he will pay 

 in the same ratio on the new valuation for the 

 remainder of his tenancy. 



Directly an applicant has been allotted a farm, he 

 shall pay on demand the survey dues thereon. These 

 survey dues vary in a peculiar way from £/\. 6s. 8d. on 

 50 acres and £9 45-. od. on 100 acres to about £50 on 

 6,000 acres. (It would apparently, therefore, be 

 considerably cheaper to have a 100 acre farm surveyed 

 in two 50-acre blocks !) 



The British East African Government has the power 

 of conferring a grant, at its discretion, to an individual 

 or Company up to 15,000 acres, but the grant of a 

 larger area must be referred home. 



Moreover, an individual possessed of 15,000 acres 

 may not acquire, by purchase or otherwise, any further 

 area in the Protectorate. 



Now on these regulations a little comment is 

 perhaps justifiable ; and if such comments are not 

 entirely laudatory, it should be borne in mind that 

 these conditions are the result of a Land Bill introduced 

 in the Legislative Council of 1908 and repudiated by 

 99 per cent, of the agricultural population in East 

 Africa, but nevertheless insisted on by the Secretary 

 of State for the Colonies. 



The first point to be made lies in the fact that applica- 

 tion must be made in person for a definitely defined and 

 numbered farm. On the face of it this is fair enough ; 

 but where, owing, not to lack of suitable land, but of 

 sufficient surveyors, the applicants are considerably in 



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