Sub-enclosure to Enclosure 1. 525
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Note dated the 13th April 1899, by
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Recy Rep 4 SEP S
Surveyor General of India.
If the Government of India desire it, I will do my best to depute a suitable survey party to map the newly acquired territory near Hong Kong. I can at all events give my ideas of what the constitution and the cost of a party suited to make the required survey should be.
2. Nothing has been stated as to the scale of the proposed survey, but I gather that a cadastral survey of the cultivated area of about 72,000 acres is required and I presume a topographical survey of the remaining area of 174 square miles will be wanted; the usual scales in India for the two kinds of survey are the 16 inch and 1 inch = 1 mile respectively. The following remarks therefore are intended for surveys on those scales.
3. As the area is small and no great difficulties are likely to be experienced I think the work might be placed under two of our Provincial Officers, one of some standing to be in charge of the whole and to specially superintend the triangulation and topographical survey, the other to look after the traversing