Some states, instead of the simple and obvious expedient of a register of leases, have had recourse to the laborious and expensive one of an actual survey and valuation of all the lands in the country.

一些州没有采用租约登记这一简单而明显的权宜之计，而是求助于对全国所有土地进行实际调查和估价这一费力而昂贵的方法。