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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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TLC.O. 882

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5 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH—NOT TO

328

Ra.

1 Sub-Assistant Superintendent-pay

Burma allowance

Deputation allowance

...

Travelling allowance at Burma rates

(about)

220 per mensem,

50

allowed the usual 20 per cent. deputation allowances.

44

329

procedure when sending officers and surveyors into transfrontier countries, such as Afghanistan, when Baluchistan allowances have always been granted.

The following will then be the estimated cost of the detachment:--

I have also

135

Monthly.

Annual.

Total.

449

Ha.

Ba.

4 Sub-Surveyors at Rs. 30 each-pay

120

1 extra Assistant Superintendent-pay

300

3,600

"

Charge allowance

100

Deputation allowance at Rs. 6 each

1,200

24

Burma allowance

50

600

Travelling allowance at Burma rates at

Rs. 17 each (about).

Deputation allowance

60

720

68

Daily rates (Burma)

135 for 7 months only

915

7,065

1 Sub-Assistant Superintendent-pay

220

2,640

212

Burma allowance

50

Deputation allowance Daily rates

44-

600 528

135 for 7 months only

945

4,713

120 24

1,440

68 for 7 months only

288 476

2,204

Rs. 13,982

If the deputation lasts for more than six months contribution for leave allowances and pension will also have to be paid by the Hong Kong Government to the Indian Government, according to the prescribed scale. The Surveyor-General will give the necessary information on this point to your Government.

4. With reference to the travelling expenses referred to in paragraph 7 of the Surveyor-General's note, I am to say that travelling charges from the point of departure in India to the port of embarcation and from there to Hong Kong will be debitable to your Government.

5. The Surveyor-General has been instructed to place himself in communication with you, with the view to the settlement of all further details as to the constitution, equipment, and time, of deputation of the party.

I have &c.,

T. W. HOLDERNESS,

Secretary.

Note dated the 13th April, 1899, by the Surveyor-General of India.

If the Government of India desire it, I will do my best to depute a suitable survey party to map the newly-acquired territory near Hong Kong. I can at all events give my ideas of what the constitution and the cost of a party suited to make the re- quired survey should be.

2. Nothing has been stated as to the scale of the proposed survey, but I gather that a cadastral survey of the cultivated area of about 72,000 acres is required and I presume a topographical survey of the remaining area of 174 square miles will be wanted; the usual scales in India for the two kinds of survey are the 16 inch and 1 inch 1 mile respectively. The following remarks therefore are intended for surveys on those scales.

3. As the area is small and no great difficulties are likely to be experienced I think the work might be placed under two of our Provincial Officers, one of some standing to be in charge of the whole and to specially superintend the triangulation and topographical survey, the other to look after the traversing and cadastral survey. For the native staff I would recommend four native surveyors for the topographical detail survey and for the traversing connected with the cadastral operations, but I would suggest that the Indian method of paying for the latter work by contract be employed. On this system I estimate that 16 amins would be sufficient to complete the cadastral area in about six months, unless the fields are very small or the terraced cultivation extends much up the hill slopes. The two Provincial Officers with the tour sub-sur- veyors should go in advance, leaving India about 15th September and on arrival they would proceed to carry out the triangulation and traversing required as a framework for the topographical and cadastral surveys. The amins would follow, and would com- mence work about the 15th November or earlier if possible. The whole should be completed in 12 months after landing.

4. I cannot at this moment actually nominate the two officers, but I will estimate for a sixth grade Extra Assistant-Superintendent on Rs. 300 and a first grade Sub- Assistant-Superintendent on Rs. 220. As one of them is almost sure to be taken from the Burma Surveys, and would, under Article 98 C. S. Regulations, be entitled to con- tinue to draw his Lower Burma allowance of Rs. 50, have allowed Burma allow- ance to each of the two officers, and also to the four sub-suveyors; this is similar to the

4 Sub-Surveyors at Rs. 30-pay Deputation allowance Dafly rates

acre.

5. In addition to the above will be the cost of the cadastral survey by contract. The Indian rates for the survey of the fields vary according to the size of the fields. The rates per 100 acres paid for first-class work in Lower Burma vary from Rs. 4-12-0 when the fields average one acre in size to Rs. 10-6-8, when they are about 0.10 of an To these 20 per cent. deputation allowance should be added, making them Rs. 5-11-8 and Rs. 12-8-0 respectively. In addition to the actual survey work, there is the inking in of the sheets, the calculation of areas, &c., all of which will be Rs. 3-8-0 per 1,000 fields or with deputation allowance Rs. 4-13-3. Assuming that the fields will be of the smallest dimensions and consequently the work the most expensive, the cost of the cadastral survey, including drawing the sheets and calculating the areas, will be as follows:--

Survey work

Drawing, &c.

Ra.

72,000 100 72,000

1.000 ×

8 x 12

R. A. P.

0

R.

9.000

4 18 3.m

848 any

9.500

6. The total cost of the survey and the supply of fair mape, but not of supplying printed copies by the photo-zinco or other process, will be, if the work occupies one year, and not including the cost of local labour and chain-men, &c.,

Cost of detachment

Cost of cadastral survey by contract

Rs.

13.982 9.500

23.482

or $15.983

7. This estimate does not allow for any chainmen or natives of India to accom- pany the officers and surveyors, but I am afraid the work will be much handicapped at first through the difference of language and difficulty of making the Chinese under- stand what will be required of them. Perhaps Indian coolies can be obtained in Hong Kong. If not I should recommend that some 30 klassies be allowed to accompany the detachment. I have also not included the cost of travelling to China. It should be olearly laid down whether the passage from Calcutta only, or whether the travelling expenses in India to port of embarcation are also to be defrayed by Hong Kong.

8. Instruments, &c., we can supply from here.

True copy.

F. SCHOFIELD,

For Registrar, Department of Revenue and Agriculture.

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