The Palestine government will be advised to abolish “mushaa,” or the common land hold in which no peasant owns any specified piece of land but cultivates a specified area, in the report of Sir John Simpson, who recently left Palestine after completing an investigation into problems of land settlement, immigration and developement, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learns.
It is understood that Sir John recommends the reorganization of the present method of official land surveys and registration in order to sub-divide the present joint land tenures of the fellaheen into individual parcels which will make it possible for the Arab peasants to get individual title deeds.
If the recommendation of Sir John is carried out it will make it possible for an Arab peasant to obtain long term farm credits with his land title as security. Sir John considers this as a fundamental condition to the establishment of a government agricultural bank for which he is said to suggest in his report a bond issue of $1,000,000 to be floated by the British government.
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