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including highly placed members of the Khalifoh family, to
set aside Government title deeds H. E. Shaikh Hamed adheres
to the policy of never cancelling a title deed when once
it has been signed after the proclamation has been issued

calling for claims on the’property, The value and the
intercity of the whole system depends upon this and since
the immutability of government title deeds has now been

established their value is thoroughly appreciated by the
public.
There has been an increase in the number of applicants

who claim ownership by ri jit of occupancy for over 13 years
and a large proportion of their applications have been regis­
tered.
The right by occupancy can only be claimed if the appli­

cant can prove that he lived on the ;round, without paying
rent and without vacating it, for ten years from 1336 so
each year the period increases.

Land Settlement. (Land Registiration and Settlement —
total expenditure — Rs 21,355/l0/-. )

The towns of Huharrsk and Lead were surveyed during the
year, the various sheets rhich include the LMharrak survey
have been reduced to the scale of 200* i ln and a nap of the
town has been made similar to the man of Uanamah.

The villages of Saar, Draaz, ^rriyah, Tcnabiah, Beni
Jamra, Ilarkh, Hamalah and Danistan, on Ilanamah island, have
been surveyed.

The records of rights of these villages has not yet been
prepared as the question of plots of cultivation in the pos­
session of the Shia fellohin of the villages, which are claim­

ed by members of the Ruling family, has not yet been decided.
Last year when the village of Barbar was surveyed Shaikh
I'ohomed bin Isa al-Shalifah claimed that all gardens in the