મ
£
260
157
Cadastral Branch.
The Cadastral Branch has been very much hampered by the fact that large arrears of applications for land had to be dealt with and until these arrears reach more manageable proportions systematic work cannot begin.
On the 1st December, 1906, these arrears of estates ordered for survey stood at 838,000 acres, on 1st of October, 1907, they had been reduced to 351,000 acres. It is likely that early next year these arrears may be reduced to small proportions. These figures refer to surveys demanded by the Land Office. That Office has con- siderable numbers of applications which they cannot yet pass to my Department for survey.
In my report of 17th December, 1906, it was stated that the parts immediately. requiring systematic cadastral survey amounted to 36,000 square miles.
I estimate that with the staff now estimated for an output of about 800 square miles per year may be expected of systematic sheets. With the staff asked for, the time required to complete the work would be about 45 years.
G. E. SMITH, Major, R.E.,
Approved Estimate, 1907-1903.
Estimate for
1908-1939.
27a. SURVEY DEPARTMENT SPECIAL EXPENDITURE.
£
£
£
Superintending Staff.
Purchases, Stationery
Books
11
Instruments
Passages
Total Superintending Staff
40
5
145
ཡཝ
45
48
70
03
Trigonometrical and Topographical Branch.
Instruments, Stationery and Books
Freight
Passages
Equipment
Outfit Allowances
Total Trigonometrical and Topographical
Branch.
70
170
32.
379
250
30
70
November 22, 1907.
Nairobi,
199
861
494
No. 105.
Director of Surveys.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
PEPEC.O.8
885
Cadastral Branch.
Purchases, Equipment
Books
带有
"7
Stationery
Passages
Freight
Total Cadastral Branch
Total Survey Department Special Expenditure
150
200
5
43
25
205
386
367
25
591
751
815
1,936
(No.. 705.)
MY LORD,
Enclosure 2 in No. 104.
SHORT REPORT called for in Paragraph 4 of Secretary of State's Despatch, No. 583, of October 25, 1907. Trigonometrical Branch.
Up to 1st October, 1907, the Trigonometrical Branch had completed, since it was instituted, the triangulation of about 4,375 square miles of country in 14 years. The area of triangulation foreshadowed in Major Hills's report may be taken as about 36,000 square miles, of which 9,000 square miles along the Tana River is not likely to be urgently required for some time.
Omitting that part from consideration for the present of a total of about 27,000 square miles 4,375 have been completed in 14 years. So that at the present rate triangulation of the country would take 8 years more. I am of opinion, however, that a great deal of the work will go very quickly, and I estimate the time required will be about five years.
Topographical Branch.
The only portion of the Protectorate which as yet has been satisfactorily mapped from the Topographical point of view is a strip along the Anglo-German boundary. Some other reconnaissance work has been done, but from this point of view this work should be excluded from consideration.
In my report of the 17th December, 1906, I stated that 46 sheets on the 1/125,000 scale (about 2 miles to 1 inch) were immediately required. The area of these would be about 55,200 square miles. I estimate that the staff I ask for should survey every year about 5,500 square miles on the above-mentioned scale. Such a staff would, therefore, require about 10 years to complete the work con- templated.
SOUTHERN NIGERIA.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received January 6, 1908.)
[Answered by L.F. transmitting copy of No. 115.]
Governor's Rest House, Ibadan,
Southern Nigeria, December 15, 1907.
By my direction the attention of the Director of Surveys was called to the portion of the Report of the Colonial Survey Committee (second year)* which referred to survey work in Southern Nigeria.
2. On Mr. Cotton's special request. I now forward to your Lordship a letter from him on the subject dated 5th instant. I have but a short comment to make on this letter and that is that, although Mr. Cotton had been in charge of the Department since 1900, it was not until the present year and after the receipt of the peremptory telegram from your Lordship that the results of his work were placed at the disposal of Government. I have always held that Mr. Cotton is a thoroughly competent surveyor, capable of doing excellent work, but I find, and I understand others find this also, that it is most difficult to get him to place the results of his surveys at the disposal of Government and also to obtain any special information that may from time to time be required.
3. I am glad to be able to say that from a cursory examination I am fairly satisfied with the skeleton maps now put forward by Mr. Cotton, but, on my asking that the properly made roads recently constructed should be shown, as roads are shown on British ordnance maps, by double lines, I had to argue with Mr. Cotton for half an hour and then to give definite instructions that my wishes were to be carried out. The maps can be very much improved by a good deal of the informa- tion collected in the past by various officers as to the situation of towns, villages, paths, and natural features being filled in in their approximately correct positions. This can now be easily done in the Western Province as so many points are accu- rately fixed, and a side-note can be inserted on the maps to guard against the Survey Department being held responsible for any slight inaccuracy in these details. Until this is done they are of but small use to military or civil officers.
I have, &c.,
W. EGERTON,
Governor.
• Colonial Report [Annual] No. 532, 1907.
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