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THE SURVEY QUESTION IN COCHIN CHINA. 



I will not deny that abuses may arise from this mode of 

 procedure, but such abuses are not the result of French admi- 

 nistration, they have existed, and in a much greater degree, 

 from time immemorial ; they are less felt in all that regards the 

 assessment of allotments for land revenue than in any other 

 matter, and they do not affect the interests of the Treasury 

 in any way. 



The Officers of Government who know by the computa- 

 tions of the (topographical) survey the exact area of land 

 under cultivation in each village, can in fact maintain a check 

 upon the full collection of the land revenue, nor do they fail 

 to do so, and in arrondissements where the holdings have 

 been completely surveyed, the difference discovered between 

 the actual cultivated area and that on which revenue is paid 

 is comparatively unimportant, it amounts to about one-fortieth. 





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Hectares. 





Baria, 



10,233 



10,548 





225 





Bienhoa, ... 



29,050 



26,143 



2,807 







Saigon, 



47> I 79 



57>9 00 





10,727 





Cholon, 



59.952 



65,834 





5,882 





Gocong, 



37.798 



38,3 3 





505 



Deficiency 22,042 

 Excess 7,336 



Tanan, 



42,865 



43499 





634 





Mytho, 



99>93 8 



102,769 





2,831 



14,706 



Bentre, 



87,988 



87^3 2 



"656 







Vinhlong, ... 



79,790 



75.917 



3.873 







Sadec, 



52,100 



53.338 





1,238 







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 544,893! 561,499 



7.33 6 



22,042 





