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No. 6.
FEDERATED MÁLAY STATES.
THE HIGH COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 11.45 a.m., January 7, 1007.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 10.]
Referring to your despatch, No. 321,* and telegram, 5th January,† proposal approved. ANDERSON.
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Enclosure in No. 8.
INSTRUCTIONS to Major HILLS, Royal Engineers, C.M.G.
You are hereby appointed to make an inspection, and to draw up a report upon the working of the Survey Department of the Federated Malay States.
2. The report should deal with all matters which affect the efficient and economi- cal conduct of survey work in the States.
3. You should include in the scope of your enquiry the relations of the Survey Department with other Government Departments, so far as they may influence the administration and constitution of the Survey Department.
4. You will be given all facilities for obtaining the necessary information, and you may examine any person employed by Government whose evidence you may wish to obtain upon any subject connected with your mission.
January 8, 1907.
ELGIN.
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No. 7.
NORTHERN NIGERIA.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER.
(No. 12.) SIR,
[Answered by No. 31.]
Downing Street, January 8, 1907.
WITH reference to paragraph 8 of Sir F. Lugard's despatch, No, 82, of the 14th of February, 1906, and to paragraph 2 of his despatch, No. 153, of the 22nd of March, § I have the honour to inform you that I have not failed to consider his recommendation for a cadastral survey of the tin mining area in Northern Nigeria.
2. It is not clear to me that the Government of Northern Nigeria, which would have to bear the entire initial cost of the survey, would receive any adequate return for the expenditure in the form of survey fees, or that the deposits are sufficiently rich to make it profitable to work them. In any case, it will be necessary, before I can ask the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to approve of the survey, to obtain an estimate of the cost and a scheme of survey, showing the staff which will be required, the rate of progress which may be expected, and the amount which will be recovered in the form of survey fees.
3. The materials available in this country are not sufficient for the purpose, and I shall be glad if you will furnish me with as full information as you can obtain as to the area which would have to be surveyed, the nature of the country, and the cost of transport of stores, &c., to the district.
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No. 8.
FEDERATED MALAY STATES.
COLONIAL OFFICE to MAJOR E. H. HILLS.
I have, &c.,
ELGIN.
Downing Street, January 8, 1907.
SIR,
I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to inform you that the Government of the Federated Malay States have accepted the proposal that you should inspect and report upon the working of the Survey Department there.
2. I am accordingly to transmit to you the enclosed instructions relating to your mission to the Federated Malay States.
No. 133 in African No. 777.
† Not printed.
‡ No. 64 in African No. 777.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
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No. 9.
EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE,
THE COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received January 9, 1907.)
(No. 651.) MY LORD,
Commissioner's Office, Mombasa, December 12, 1906. IN obedience to the instructions contained in Your Lordship's despatch, No. 711, of November 8th,* I have the honour to report that I instructed the Com- missioner of Lands and the Director of Surveys to re-cast the Survey Estimates. This has now been done, and the estimates, which are being printed, will be forwarded to Your Lordship in due course. In the meantime, I submit a copy of Captain Smith's covering letter, from which it will be observed that the total has now been reduced by £13,680, or 34 per cent.
I have, &c.,
YOUR EXCELLENCY,
Enclosure in No. 9.
J. HAYES SADLER.
Director of Surveys Office, December 7, 1906.
I HAVE the honour to present estimates revised in accordance with your
instructions.
I have reduced the total by £13,680, or 34 per cent.
On the Trigonometrical Branch the reduction is £5,067, but £420 has been
added to Local Transport of Superintending Staff.
On the Topographical Branch the reduction is £3,228.
On the Cadastral Branch the reduction is £5,385.
I think that the requirements of the country cannot be fully met by the estimate
so reduced. The reduction has been arrived at in the following way :-
TRIGONOMETRICAL BRANCH.
An increase only of one officer and one non-commissioned officer is now estimated for. A period in the field of nine months instead of ten is estimated for contrary to opinion but in deference to paragraph 5 of the despatch quoted. Transport and labour has been further reduced by omitting 10 per cent. for casualties.
TOPOGRAPHICAL BRANCH,
I now estimate for a commencement only for a Topographical Branch. Three non-commissioned officers are allowed for.
No. 126 in African No. 777.
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