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APPENDIX II. 



CLAIMS OF IMPROPRIATORS. MALACCA LANDS. 



Tuesday, 10th October, 1826. 



The following European and Native Landed Proprietors were 

 assembled this day at the Eesident Councillor's Office for the pur- 

 pose of enquiring into the particulars detailed below : — 



B. De Wind, Esq. 



J. B. Westerhottt, Esq. 



G. ~KoEK, Esq. 



A. VELGE ; Esq 



The Captain of Malays : — 



Aeoom ^ 



Mahmat Tyre, { 



IiOERIEN, C 



Inchis. 



BOOROE, 



M. de Souza was present by proxy in the person of his son. 



Messrs. De "Wit, D. Koek, and G. de Souza, the Captain 

 Kling and Dosso Binclasa were requested to attend, but unavoida- 

 ble circumstances detained them elsewhere. 



The above meeting took place for the purpose of ascertaining the 

 nature of the agreement subsisting respectively between the Gov- 

 ernment, the landed proprietors, the Penghulus (or intermediate 

 officers between the landed proprietors and the tenants), and the 

 immediate cultivators of the soil. 



1. — Between the Government and the landed proprietors. 



On a reference to the records in the Registrar's Office, it would 

 appear that some grants expressly state the right of Government 

 to resume the land, and all, so far as the inquiry has gone, seem to 

 indicate an ultimate right of this nature. 



The grantee, by the records, is generally supposed to receive 

 the land under an engagement of clearing the same of jungle, and 

 the right of resumption on the part of Government would seem to 

 arise from the non-fulfilment of this expressed or implied duty on 

 the part of the grantee. 



In regard to this clause, implied or seemingly understood in 

 favour of Government, the present proprietors state that, without 



