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advisable that the applicant should be in a position 
to assure the Collector that he is not a mere 
speculator in land values. It is, in any case, almost 
impossible in the Federated Malay States to take 
up land and,, without doing anything to it, to wait 
for a rise in value because, before this has occurred, 
the conditions of title will have operated and the 
land will have been resumed. An applicant should 
therefore give full information, under confidential 
cover if necessary, as to his financial qualifications 
for developing land and as to his intentions in the 
matter of cultivation, specifying what he intends to 
plant or, if he is applying for building land, what he 
intends to build. An applicant should be prepared 
to pay for his land, for his survey expenses and 
for expenses for registration of title forthwith on 
approval of the application, for no grant is issued 
until all the monies required have been paid and 
failure to pay within a reasonably short period 
may result in the approval of the application being 
cancelled. 
It is usually possible, if all such monies have 
been paid, to get permission from the Resident to 
enter on the land before the grant or lease issues, if 
the approved applicant will agree to cut and clear his 
approved boundaries and will agree to keep within 
them and take all risk of going beyond them. He 
will also have to agree to comply with all the con- 
ditions which will subsequently attach to the title. 
The rates of annual rent prevailing in March, 
1924 were: — 
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