It is a matter for congratulation that the land register and the survey records are all intact. We to put on record our sense of jon to the Rev. H. Witt for the painstaking and great services he has rendered in the matter of detailed survey of the lots Missionary Valley. The incoming Land and Registry Committee should be asked to examine the question of taxable vacant lots in the Missionary Valley, and that taxes on such lots should not be collected for the present.
Transfers of property in the! Missionary Valley made from 1926 to the present should be reported to the G.P.C. to be entered in the official Land Register. The new G.P.C. should be asked to take steps Valley holds what is probably a unique position among the summer resorts of China, un that none calors of the Association's Out missionaries' are allowed to registered in the Hankow British hold property in -the valley. The Consulate should be obtained, Iundowners are organized into an similar to that available from the Association, which regulates and American Consulate, Controls the internal affairs of the Valley, through a General Purposes Cemetery Committee Council composed. of fifteen land-'The watchman.in charge of the owners elected at the annual meet-cemetery has kept the grass cut ing of the Association. Their and the paths in shape, while no tenure of this valley is a long term cattle have been allowed to graze lease, by deeds confirmed by the fin the enclosure. The surrounding Chinese authorities and registered wall is badly in need of repair, a in the American and British Con-new gate is required, the plot stones sulates in Hankow. The right t in some cases have fallen over and hold and control this property need to be re-located, while the simply that conferred by treaty pri-bashes by the paths require to be vileges upon all missions holding trimmed. Nevertheless, with the property in the interior of China, rapid growth of the shrubbery, the id the Association is such as that peaceful westward outlook, and which maintains when several thanks again to-the work of Mr. different missions join together for Witt in the laying out of the special union missionary work. enclosure, our cemetery is a very When new treaties modify the pre-{auiet and beautiful spot, truly Song treaty regulations governing God's Acre.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.