Village Statistics 1945: A Classification of Land and Area Ownership in Palestine (ص 9)

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Village Statistics 1945: A Classification of Land and Area Ownership in Palestine (ص 9)

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and they exercised complete freedom of action over the land includ-
ing transacting sales among themselves.
Such lands existed mainly in the Beisan and Jordan Valleys as well
as in certain villages in the Gaza sub-district. The Government re-
cognized Arab rights in these lands and was in the process of trans-
ferring full title to the Arab cultivators on payment of badl misl,
that 3s, a price based on the unimproved capital value of the land,
when the Mandate came to an end.
(e) Cultivable (Cereal) Land — All such lands registered or recorded
in the tax records in the name of “The High Commissioner for the
time being in trust for the Government of Palestine’ remain in the
column of ‘Public’ even though certain areas are known to have
been occupied by Arab farmers under hereditary tenancy rights or
other rights of cultivation, The reason for this is that it is not pos-
sible at this stage to distinguish land which was in actual pos-
session of the Government from land which was occupied by the
Arab cultivators. The question is discussed further under Section
TV — State Domain.
(f) Fish Ponds — The area listed under ‘Fish Ponds’ in the ‘Village
Statistics’ 1s only 4,823 dunums. This area is wholly Jewish-owned.
It has been included in Jewish holdings under the column of ‘Plan-
tations and Irrigable Land’ in Table II.
(g) Uncultivable Land — AJ] land which appeared in the ‘Village
Statistics’ under ‘Public’ has continued to appear so in Table III.
The question is discussed further in Section IV — State Domain
and Section V — Beersheba sub-district.
Finally, the land measure used in Palestine during the period of the
Mandate was the ‘dunum’ which equals 1000 square metres; 1000 dunums
equal one square kilometre; 4.05 dunums make one acre; and 2590 dunums
equal one square mile.
Beirut, Lebanon S. H.
April 1970

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Village Statistics 1945: A Classification of Land and Area Ownership in Palestine

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سبتمبر ١٩٧٠

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Hadawi, Sami

هداوي، سامي

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