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No. 48.
(No. 512.)
SIR,
EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 7 October, 1911.)
Government House, Nairobi, British East Africa,
September 14th, 1911.
I HAVE the honour to refer to my despatch, No. 318 of the 6th of June,* respecting the erection of a fence round the Southern Game Reserve, and to ask if you have been able to come to any decision in the matter.
2. The Game Warden is receiving constant inquiries from settlers in the Machakos district for information on the subject, and I am given to understand that the delay is causing considerable dissatisfaction.
3. I should be glad, therefore, if you would communicate your decision to me as soon as possible.
lbs.
VII. Non-European Artizane. Hnt Tax counters, Press hands, tailors, launch hands, Market Masters and others of similar rank.
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120
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VIII. E. A. Police-Customs Police-Prison
staff N. C. O's and constables.
(A) E, A. Police 1st and 2nd grade Sergeants: Customs Police and Prison Staff on salaries of not less than Rs. 35 per mensem. (B) E. A. Police 3rd grade Sergeants: Customs Police and Prison Staff on salaries of not less than Rs. 25 per mensem.
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4
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60
fraction
thereof.
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3
120
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I have, &c.,
E. P. C. GIROUARD.
Governor.
1. The above allowances of porters are inclusive of all the camp equipment, tents, and personal effects of the officer himself, his servants, his porters, and his horse or mule, if any, also of his despatch box and office furniture.
2. In cases where extra porters have to be employed for carrying food or water the voucher must invariably be submitted to the Provincial Commissioner or Head of Department to which the officer belongs, and the excess will be allowed only upon the recommendation of such Provincial Commissioner or Head of Department.
NOTE. For waterless tracts extra porters may be employed to carry water at the rate of 3 gallons per officer and one gallon per porter per day 4 gallons being 1eckoned as a porter's load.
3. Extra porters may be allowed for police escort when required at the rate of 1 porter to every three men or fraction thereof for equipment, posho, &c., and an extra porter for one tent for every six men.
4 Station hands are not to be employed in addition to the number of porters specified above.
5. All officers must certify on vouchers the class of porters employed, i.e., whether Swahili, Wanyamwezi, or other tribes.
NOTE. For the purpose of these Regulations any porter who can carry a load
of 60 lbs. and who is engaged on a wage of Rs. 10 per mensem is to be classed under the heading of Swahili or Wanyamwezi.
6. Any officer signing a voucher for payment of porters in excess of the scale allowed will be debited with the amount of the excess expenditure involved, which will be deducted from his salary, pending a satisfactory explanation.
7. The above scale represents the maximum number of porters and weights of loads allowed, and officers are expected to use their discretion by not availing them- selves of the maximum unless actually required.
8. The use of the motor car service to Fort Hall in lieu of porters is sanctioned.
In other cases wheeled transport must not be employed when the cost of same exceeds that of porters.
9. Claims for refund of expenses incurred on porterage of personal effects between pier and railway station and house will not be allowed, whether an officer is travelling on first appointment, leave, transfer, or tour of duty.
10. Claims for refund of boat hire at coast ports where there are no Govern. ment transport facilities will only be allowed in the case of officers on transfer or tour of duty, and will be limited to the number of loads allowed in the above scale.
11. The Director of Surveys is allowed to exercise his discretion within certain limits as to the amount of transport to be given to survey parties.
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received November 24, 1911.)
The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of a despatch from Sir A. Hardinge, dated November 9, relative to game preservation in Africa.
Foreign Office,
SIR,
November 24, 1911.
(No. 49. Africa.)
Enclosure in No. 49.
Lisbon, November 9, 1911. WITH further reference to your despatch, No. 83 Africa, of the 21st ultimo, I have the honour to report that I have received a note from the Portuguese Government stating that they see no objection to concluding an agreement with a view to preventing the traffic in elephants' tusks weighing less than 20 lbs. in Africa or the exportation of tusks under that weight from that continent, if Germany, France, Italy, and Belgium are prepared to do likewise.
The Right Honourable
Sir Edward Grey, Bart., M.P., &c., &c., &c.,
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I have, &c.,
HUGH GAISFORD,
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received December 1, 1911.)
for the Minister.
The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to
the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, and, by direction of the Secretary of
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