PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O.
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18 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
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Survey Department should be diminished by one surveyor, three assistant surveyors, and one Indian draughtsman, and the contingent expenses should be cut down proportionately.
The topographical survey section should be totally independent of the Survey Department. For military discipline, it should be under the Officer Commanding Troops, but otherwise the Officer Commanding Section should report direct to Ilis Majesty's Commissioner.
The rates of pay of the section should be those approved for boundary commis- sions. The Officer Commanding Section should have distinct orders to complete the topographical survey of the Kingdom of Uganda in 24 years.
The Survey Department of Uganda should confine itself to the estate survey. This will be greatly to the benefit of the Survey Department, which will now be able to devote its energies to the very important work of the cadastral survey required by the Uganda Agreement.
5. The general effect of this step will be:-
(1) The Survey Department will be free to devote itself entirely to the estate
survey.
(2) There will be a net saving on the topographical survey of about £10,000. (3) The topographical survey will be finished in 2 years instead of 9. NOTE. Under any scheme there is a small area so infected with sleeping sic! ness that the risk of life to the surveyors is too great to be worth incurring.
COST OF UGANDA SURVEY SECTION.
Salaries (as approved for boundary commission):—
2 Lieutenants at £526
2 Corporals at 13s. 1d. per diem
4 Lance-corporals at 11s. per diem
Porters
Contingent
...
Upkeep of 10 mules
Total annual expenditure
Period at work 24 years
Pay on six months' leave :-
2 Lieutenants
2 Corporals
4 Lance-corporals
Pay on board ship outward:-
2 Lieutenants
2 Corporals at 5s. 7d.
diem per
4 Lance-corporals at 3s. 6d. per diem
:
The
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gross cost of the Survey Section will thus be made up as below:--
Annual expenses for 23 years
Leave, pay, &c.
Initial expenses
Gross cost
and the cost per square mile will be £0.94.
£9,038
1,293
2,330
£12,661
Cost of present method of conducting the Topographical Survey of Uganda.
Annual cost:--
1 Surveyor
3 Surveyors
1 Draughtsman Porters Contingent
Add 1/5 surveyors for leave
£350
900
120
624
100
£2,094
250
£2,344
And the survey is estimated to last at least 9 years
£21,096
To which is to be added the cost of 12 passages home
and 12 back, say
1,000
£22,096
£1,052 477
803
1,000
100
The mean annual cost will thus be, £2,455.
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3,615
The mean annual out-turn, 1,500 square miles. The cost per square mile, £164.
£9,038 A
£526
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"KINGDOM " OF
UGANDA.
NOTE on the triangulation.
Up to August, 1906, the area beaconed
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88
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£1,293. B.
£2,330 C.
for the main triangulation was
for the secondary triangulation was
13,630 square miles 11,550
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the completed area of main triangulation was
4,660
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the completed area of secondary triangulation was...
5,060
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Up to May, 1907, the area of main triangulation completed was 7,622 square
miles. Area of secondary work was not reported.
There is thu's enough triangulation completed to suffice for the cadastral needs
of, at least, the next seven years.
Any additional triangulation required for the topographical map will be provided by the topographical section.
The Survey Department need not execute any more triangulation for at least five years. All the available surveyors can be freed for employment on the cadastral work.
October 8, 1907.
C. F. CLOSE.
E. H. HILLS.
Initial expenses:—
Outfit, officers', at £50
£100
Outfit, non-commissioned officers', at £20.. Instruments
120
200
Tents
160
Mules, 20 at £50
1,000
Tools
50
Passages out and home
700