X 
LAND AND THE LAND LAWS 
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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 £\ €>s. Sd. on 
50 acres and £g 4 s. 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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