Prospectus of the Scots New Zealand Land CompanyMatthew, Patrick
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Prospectus of the Scots New Zealand Land Company
Matthew, Patrick
New Zealand -- Emigration and immigration; Scots New Zealand Land Company
_11th_, As a chief element in the prosperity of a country is secure
and unfettered possession of land, and easy transmission, that the
tenure or condition under which the land shall be held, and mode of
conveying it, in order to be of the simplest and clearest description,
be allodial (without any superior), and _The Book of First Allotment_
made out by the Register Keeper and the Surveyor be of itself
sufficient evidence of the title. The lots to be described in this Book
as definitely as possible; and the lines of demarcation or marches
to consist of natural divisions, such as water-courses, inclination
run or shedding of water, line of rocks, &c.; and, when these are not
convenient, that marks prominent to view be stamped upon trees or
earth-fast stones, or pits be dug, by the Surveyor. That this Book
of First Allotment or Register Book (kept in a fire-proof apartment)
have a page opened for each division of land, describing its name,
boundaries, size, owner, in the fewest words possible. In the case of
transfer, or borrowing money upon it, the same to be recorded, in the
fewest words possible, on the Register page, and signed by principals
and two witnesses: The lender, on receiving the money back, merely
signing his name as receiver, attested by the Register Keeper and
witnesses, and no bargain respecting land to be binding till registered
in this Book. That possession, living witnesses, and the Register
Book, be the only necessary title: But, in order to provide against
the possible destruction or loss of the register book, the holder,
upon requesting it, and paying the necessary cost, to receive from the
Register Keeper a copy of the register page, describing his own lands
down to a specified date, written upon a paper stamped by a peculiar
die, used for this exclusive purpose, and signed by the Register
Keeper, attested by witnesses.
In connection with the Register Office, a Bank might be formed, based
upon the land-property of the shareholders, each of these landholders
being allowed to draw out notes to the value of two-thirds of his
land-shares, or more should the land rise in value, forming a currency
of heritable bonds. The notes to be payable in gold or dollars, upon
giving six months’ notice, the same as with heritable bonds here.[11]
This would prevent any mischievous run upon gold, and at the same time
keep up the paper to its proper value, affording a sufficient paper
currency, and facility of borrowing on land-property, so important to
the prosperity of the country, and so necessary to keep up the mental
acumen and wisdom of the holders.--The regulations for this system
of currency, and for many other things, cannot well be detailed in a
Prospectus.
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