An application was made on Saturday by Mr, G. H. Wright on Behalf of the Shanghai Municipal] Council asking for an order that the piece of land which is the site of the Pootung Cemetery should bd regis-ered in the name of the Council.
Mr. R, E. S, Gregson, Acting Crown Advocate, appeared for His Majesty's Vice-Consul in charge of the Land Office.
Mr, Wright read an affidavit by Mr. Harpur, Commissioner of Public Works, in which the facts were fully set out.
'The site of.the Pootung Cemetery! was registered in 1855 in H. B, 31's Consulate General as B. C. Lot' 181,] i the names on the Title Deed being' Beale Cunningham and the Rev. 'Hobson. Prior to 1866 the land was. used as the ite for a cemetery' Tmown as "Pootung Cemetery." In 1806 the cemetery was handed over to the Council to be administered and has since been administered by it, Counsel referred to the Municipal Reports of 1866 and 1867 and added that from the exhibits to Mr. Harpur's affidavit it might be taken that the Pootung with other existing cemeteries were formerly under the control of a Cemetery Board who decided at that time that] it was advisable that they should henceforth come under the adminis. tration and control of the Council. In 1904 the cemetery was closed and has not since been reopened. No Deed of Trust or other instrument relating to the land has been found, nor can any trace be found of the original owners, one of whom is Known to have died about 30 years ago.
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