The paper focuses on provisional summary record of the sixteenth Meeting.

The paper deals with land tenure and economic development in Upper Volta. .The entire country lies within the savannah zone which runs down West Africa, from Cape Verde, to Chad, from the Saharan. Sahel in the North to the forest zones bordering the Atlantic in the South.

Le pays est tout entier compris dans la zone de savane qui, du Cap-Vert au Tchad, prend en echos l’Ouest Africain entre le Sahel saharien au nord et au sud les zones forestières bordant l’Atlantique.

An Act to convert freehold estates in land into leasehold estates and to provide for the corresponding diminution of other estates and interests in and over land, to declare the incidents of such leasehold estates and to provide for the development of land.