The re-registering of property still goes on, and an extraordinary muddle, in many directions, is being revealed. The conditions common over Manchuria which is more or leas outside the regular run of things, lend themselves to disorder. Lands, on being remessured are {found too often to be much more than the figures on which taxes have been paid. Many have changed hands again and again on what are called "white" titledeeda, that is 2 mutual arrangement by which the seller and purchaser agree to defraud the government, Vast tracts of good Iand are found to have paid nothing to the revenue, owing to their being, often only nominally, under Manchu privileges. It wi time that there was a general tightening up.
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