British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Supplement - Page 32

(p. 258) (§ 83)

The following table shows to the nearest square kilometre the distribution of most of the 1000 square kilometres of public lauds in which the title has been settled under the Land (Settlement of Title) Ordinance :-

Railways, Roads, Wadis, Rivers, etc. 144

Antiquity sites 5

Public, Government & Army Use 86

Leased to - Arabs 31

Jews 95

Others 3

Occupied by Arabs on old tenancies, etc. 112

Forest, marshes, sand dunes, mountains & rocks 490

Total 966

Of the remainder, ten square kilometres lie in the Beisan District, mostly in the hill villages, and another ten in the Huleh area. Two and a half square kilometres are in the village of Shefa 'Amr and in the land reclaimed by Government from the adjacent Na'amein swamps, and twelve square kilometres in Arab villages in and near the Carmel mountain.

The sand dunes mentioned in the table above are mostly in the Gaza and southern Lydda Districts and make up one-sixth of the total figure of 490 square kilometres, whilst the rocky area is less than a half. The marshy areas are around Lake Huleh.

(§ 84)

The 700 square kilometres claimed but not yet settled as public land include some 208 square kilometres occupied on lease, written or implied, 96 of it to Jews and the rest to Arabs, the latter mostly tenants on iiftlik land. Nearly 400 square kilometres are allocated to the Army and Government departments, and include "Forest Reserves". The remainder consists of lands in the Jordan Valley.

STATE DOMAIN FOR THE RE-SELLEMENT OF .JEWISH EX-SERVICEMEN.

(p. 259) (§ 86)

A committee was set up towards the end of the year 1944 charged with the duty of inspecting certain land in the free zone to which Government had a registered title and which the Jewish Agency, after consultation, had considered might be suitable for the resettlement of ex-soldiers. The Committee was to report, after inspection, on the availability of the properties and their suitability

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