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Reference :-
C.O. 885
22 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
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The memorandum referred to I have called No. 1 for purposes of con- venience. It is attached to despatch N. N., No. 461, of 15th July, 1912.
Paragraph 6. I do not think that Mr. Gowers fully realises the necessity of all surveys being under the Survey Depart-
ment.
Paragraph 8. Yes.
Paragraph 9. My original proposals are now altered by memorandum No. 2.
Paragraph 12. I do not think it would be worth while to improve the taki asses- sors; to teach them chaining and compass work would take too long.
A "Revision Party is it present being trained under the supervision of Mr. Sydney Smith, and is dealt with in memorandum No. 2.
(His Excellency concurs that the taki assessors should continue.)
Paragraph 14. The retention of Hausa language and dress.
Paragraph 17. The mallam assessors will form the revenue survey section, and should be paid through the survey; the taki assessors belong to the Resident and should be paid by him.
(His Excellency agrees with S. G.)
Paragraph 28. I regret that there will be no survey fees as the charging of such would enable the revenue survey section to pay its way, and eventually that of the school, directly.
(His Excellency concurs in a fee of 1s. an acre.)
In memorandum No. 2 I have given my reasons for thinking that the only satis- factory way is to make the Survey School a part of the Survey Departinent.
lopment of communications and markets for agricultural produce is proceeding so rapidly that I feel sure the above esti- mate of taxable capacity is not exagger- ated.
21. I regret that I had not seen Major Guggisberg's memorandum of July, 1912, before writing above.
Re his memorandum. Paragraph 6. For reasons given above I think that while the framework is a matter for the Survey Department the actual cadastral survey should be under an officer of, or lent to, the Political De- partment.
Paragraph 8. The framework for the cadastral survey would, I presume, be more detailed than the framework for a topographical survey?
Paragraph 9. For the present,. I think, this scheme is quite workable.
Paragraph 12. I quite agree with this; the new taki assessors to be trained more systematically than the present ones, who will be withdrawn from the field in batches to receive further train- ing. There should also be trained at once a small staff of mallams to re- measure individual farms against the assessment of which there have been appeals.
I don't think the taki assessors with the amount of training proposed will be capable of making even rough sketches.
Paragraph 14. I entirely agree with all this.
Paragraph 17. Salaries of mallam and taki assessors should, I think, be paid direct by the Native Administra- tion.
V. Paragraphs 20 to 26. These pro- posals seem thoroughly practical and sound.
Paragraph 28. I would sooner see the survey done without fees. Copies of entries in the register, or certificates, might be paid for perhaps. If land has been inaccurately assessed by us it seems hardly fair to make the taxpayer bear the cost, amounting to half a year's land revenue, of correcting our own mistakes. The enhancement of the revenue already effected much more than covers this.
I also do not agree with the Acting Director of Education that the Survey School should be entirely under the Sur- vey Department. It may be eventually, but at present class room should be pro- vided by the Nassarawa School, which already has classes of taki instruction,
I quite agree that the Resident should have nothing to do with the training of mallam assessors and surveyors. The finished article should be handed over to the revenue survey section-not to the Resident.
These should form part of the general education of pupils in the Nassarawa School before joining the Survey School.
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which would be transferred to the Survey Instructor as a class master.
The Resident does not wish to inter- fere with training; he only takes over the finished article.
Reading and writing and simple arith- metic, as His Excellency says, must con- tinue to be taught by the Director of Education's staff. They are not subjects for the Survey School.
W. F. GOWERS.
F. G. GUGGISBERG,
Major, R.E., Acting Surveyor-General.
s.s. "Mendi,"
21st March, 1913.
Headquarter Camp, Zungeru,
May 3rd, 1913.
ENCLOSURE TO MEMORANDUM No. 3.
Suggested form to be filled in by the revenue survey section from columns I. to V., and handed to the Resident. The Hausa translation (and Arabic characters?) should be filled in by expert authority. The sheets can be kept by villages. They could be pasted into the Record Books of the Revenue Office as received, copies being kept in the Record Office of the revenue survey section.
Hakimi (district head)
Jimilla (sub-district)
Gari (village)
Kauye (hamlet)
Revenue Survey
Are. Girman-Gonar.
Date of
No.
(Occupier.) (Son of)
Maigona.
Rate.
Daa.
Tax.
Soil. Kurdin-Gouar. Iriu-Kasa.,
Acres, Eka.
Rood". Kadarla.
Jart
ment.
Remark..
I.
II
111.
IV.
V
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X,
8. d.
£ s. d.
APPENDIX VI.
KANO REVENUE SURVEY.
SURVEYOR GENERAL'S COMMENTS ON CHIEF SURVEYOR'S EGYPTIAN REPORT. SURVEYOR-GENERAL, Lagos, to the SECRETARY, Northern Provinces. Mr. Collard's Egyptian Report.
In reference to His Excellency's minute of 22nd September, 1913, on M.P. 7338/1912, which seems to have disappeared from the file:
1. The principles of the Egyptian survey are generally applicable to the revenue survey of Nigeria, and, no doubt, many of the details of organisation will be found suitable.
In organising the revenue survey, however, the Chief Surveyor should not forget that the Egyptian organisation is the outcome of many years of experience and