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C.V. Brayne, C.M.G., Commissioner for Lands

Given by Mrs. B. Brayne on indefinite loan

Sessional Paper V, 1935. ‘Report of a Committee appointed to inquire into and report on the question of registration of title to land in Ceylon.’ Colombo, April 1935.

‘Peasant proprietor system’ (Chapter V of Land General Orders). Colombo, 1927.

Ceylon Land Manual. Parts I-II. ‘Ordinances and regulations relating to land.’ 1840-1935.

Memoranda and correspondence relating to land policy in Ceylon, including: land tenure in Ceylon; Paddy bank; an ordinance to create the peasant tenure of crown lands; the protection of the village; peasant agriculture in Ceylon; 8 notes of mapping out of villages, 1927-35.