The British Empire Its Past Its Present And Its Future
The British Empire Its Past Its Present And Its Future
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Area and '^^^^ boundaries of British Guiana having Development. ^^^-^^^ settled with Venezuela by the award of the arbitration tribunal at Paris in 1899, and with Brazil by the award of the King of Italy in 1904, the area of the Colony is now estimated at nearly ninety thousand five hundred square miles. Of this only one hundred and thirty square miles are under cultivation, or thirty-six square miles less than the area of Barbados. * One of the causes of this lack of development was the restri...ctive Crown Lands regulations which existed from 18o9 to 1887. During the forty-eight years (jf the continuance of that system, besides grants of small plots in towns, only twenty-two grants of Crown land were made in out-districts, of which two were to sugar plantations. Not a single East Indian or Chinese name appeared among the grantees. During that period about thirty thousand coolies returned to India, some of whom might liave remained in the Colony had land been easily obtainable. They took with them about £500, 000 in cash, and it cost about £300, 000 to send them back.
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Area and '^^^^ boundaries of British Guiana having Development. ^^^-^^^ settled with Venezuela by the award of the arbitration tribunal at Paris in 1899, and with Brazil by the award of the King of Italy in 1904, the area of the Colony is now estimated at nearly ninety thousand five hundred square miles. Of this only one hundred and thirty square miles are under cultivation, or thirty-six square miles less than the area of Barbados. * One of the causes of this lack of development was the restri...ctive Crown Lands regulations which existed from 18o9 to 1887. During the forty-eight years (jf the continuance of that system, besides grants of small plots in towns, only twenty-two grants of Crown land were made in out-districts, of which two were to sugar plantations. Not a single East Indian or Chinese name appeared among the grantees. During that period about thirty thousand coolies returned to India, some of whom might liave remained in the Colony had land been easily obtainable. They took with them about £500, 000 in cash, and it cost about £300, 000 to send them back.
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