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of land and survey administration can fairly be rated 
as equal in efficiency to the parallel departments in 
the Federated States. 
The Land Enactment of 1910 was amended in 
1913 by the addition of a chapter on Registration of 
Titles, the object being the introduction of a system 
of registration of title as nearly as possible resem- 
bling that of the Federated Malay States. 
It was inevitable that the adoption, of the 
Federated Malay States Land Enactment, a code 
forced by particular conditions into its present shape, 
should fail to satisfy the requirements of a State 
which contained large areas of rich land already 
cultivated under incomplete, temporary and (often) 
invalid titles. Settlement, demarcation, survey and 
the issue of permanent titles were necessary preli- 
minaries to the establishment of an apparatus com- 
petent to carry a land system such as that which had 
been built up by Johore’s neighbours. Consequently 
in 1920 the “Settlement Enactment ” was introduced 
for the settlement of occupied land, the establish- 
ment of boundary marks and the issue of permanent 
and complete instead of temporary and incomplete 
documents of title. As the work of settlement 
proceeds holdings which have not yet paid land rent 
to the State, except in the shape of enhanced export 
duty on produce, will be brought on the District 
rent rolls. By the issue of titles and completion of 
maps security of tenure will be given to old occupiers 
and the work of dealing with the applications of 
new settlers will be facilitated. 
With the exception of two months in the year 
1919 the Application books have been closed in res- 
pect of lands required for rubber cultivation since 
