The Regulations governing the or~ ganization of the Committee are as Art, L—The Lind Readjustment Committee is specially created by the Land Bureau of the Greater Shanghai Municipality with a view to readjusting land and reforming the vat~ fous methods of survey and measurement of land, registration of changes of certificates of land, and the reistration of land.
Art, 2—The Committee shall have a chairman and a number of members and shall be composed as fol-tows (a) The Commissioner of land shall Art. T—The readjustment and com: pilation of the minutes and doct ments of the Committee shall be handled by staff members appointed by the Commissioner of Land.
Art, &—These Regulations shall come into force upon approval by the the Commissioner of Land.
Meeting of Commitice Immediately upon inauguration, the Land Readjustment Committee held, is first. meeting last Friday, under the chairmanship of Mr. J. K. Choy, Commissioner of Land.
Mr. Choy said that the Committee was created to plan, by common endeavour, the readjustment of the Tand conditions in Greater Shanghai which were complicated and in nexd fof readjustment. "With the assistance of the members. of the Committee, who are either shouldering actual responsibility in land adminis tration in the Land Bureau or are] experienced in land administration er fare legal experts," he continued, fam convinced that the complicated land problems of Shanghai can be simplified and reforms easily made."
Mr, Choy next enumerated some of the chief matters awaiting the atten-ton of the Committee, such as settement of the many undecided cases} JDending in the Land Bureau, institution of registration, reform of the existing system in the Land Bureau, assessment of the value of land in areas where the land value tax nas [not yet been levied, ete.
Mr. Choy was followed by Mess: s. Fan Jung-cheng, Chu Chao-huang and Lu Ta-chih who reported on various phases of the work and problems in the Land Bureau.
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