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No. 2.
EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE DIRECTOR OF MILITARY OPERATIONS.
[Answered by No. 12.]
Downing Street, January 4, 1907.
The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies presents his compliments to the Director of Military Operations and begs to enclose a copy of a despatch* which has been received from the Commissioner of the East Africa Protectorate on the subject of the reproduction of the sheets of No. 94 in the Topographical Section, General Staff, map of Africa (scale 1:250,000) for sale in the Protectorate.
Sir M. Ommanney will be glad to be informed whether it will be possible to grant the permission asked for by Lieutenant-Colonel Sadler.
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a report on your regularity of attendance, progress, and proficiency. In the event of your receiving a satisfactory report (but not otherwise), and on your entering into an agreement with the Crown Agents, by which you will be liable to repay the sums in the event of your failing to take up your appointment or of
your relin- quishing it within the period of your engagement for any reason other than physical or mental infirmity, you will be allowed from Uganda funds the following sums, viz.:-
(i.) Your railway fare, third class, from your place of residence to the place
of instruction at the beginning of the course, and return fare at the end of it.
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(ii.) An allowance of 2s. 6d. a night towards the cost of lodging if you have
to sleep away from your place of residence.
(iii) An allowance of 5s. a day for each day of the course.
5. In order to draw the above sums it will be necessary for you to transmit
to the Colonial Office the enclosed certificates, when properly filled in and signed
by a duly qualified officer at the place of instruction and by yourself.
6. The Crown Agents for the Colonies will communicate with you in due course as to the date of your embarkation for Uganda.
(No. 10.) SIR,
No. 3.
CEYLON.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.
Downing Street, January 4, 1907.
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram of the 21st of Decemberf stating, in reply to the despatch Secretary of State, No. 502, November 28.
and telegram noted in the margin, that Secretary of State, Telegram, December 19,
your Government accept the proposal that
Major Hills, R.E., C.M.G., should visit Ceylon and report on the working of the Survey Department there.
2. I enclose a copy of the instructions which have been given to Major Hills.
I have, &c.,
ELGIN.
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No. 5.
CEYLON.
I am, &c.,
R. L. ANTROBUS.
COLONIAL OFFICE to MAJOR E. H. HILLS.
[Answered by No. 57.]
Downing Street, January 4, 1907.
I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to transmit to you the enclosed instruc- tions for your inspection of the working of the Ceylon Survey Department, together with copies of recent correspondence* with the Governor of Ceylon as to the number of the Assistant Superintendents of Surveys.
It is understood that you have already been furnished with a copy of Sessional Paper of Ceylon, No. XXII. of 1897, which contains Colonel Sir T. Holdich's report of 1897,
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UGANDA.
I have, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
Enclosure in No. 5.
SIR,
COLONIAL OFFICE to MR. V. F. MAYNE.||
Downing Street, January 4, 1907.
I AM directed by the Earl of Elgin to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th of December, and to inform you that you have been passed as physically fit for service as an Assistant Surveyor in Uganda, subject to your being vaccinated before your departure.
2. The Crown Agents for the Colonies, whose address is 3, Whitehall Gardens, London, S.W., have been instructed to prepare the necessary agreement embodying the terms of your engagement. You should communicate with them on the subject. They will also furnish you with information as to the outfit with which you should provide yourself.
3. The course of instruction which has been arranged at Southampton will begin at 10 a.m. on the 16th of January, and will last a month. You should report yourself on the previous day to the Director-General of the Ordnance Survey, Colonel R. C. Hellard, R.E., at the Ordnance Survey Office.
4. The Director-General has been asked to furnish at the end of the course
† No. 141 in African No. 777.
• No. 145 in African No. 777.
No. 133 in African No. 777 and 44331: not printed (a reminder).
Enclosure in No. 5. Letters in similar terms were addressed to Mr. A. H. Gee, Mr. R. J. Goulston, and Mr. A. G.
Not printed.
Willmot.
INSTRUCTIONS TO MAJOR HILLS, R.E., C.M.G.
You are hereby appointed to make an inspection and to draw up a report upon
the working of the Survey Department in Ceylon.
2. The report should deal with all matters which affect the efficient and economical conduct of survey work in the Colony.
3. You should include in the scope of your enquiry the relations of the Survey Department with the Waste Lands Settlement Department and other Government Departments in so far as they may influence the administration and constitution of the Survey Department.
4. You should particularly report how far the additional work thrown upon the Survey Department by the carrying out of the Waste Lands Ordinance and by the increase in the sale of Crown Land for cultivation should modify the views expressed by Colonel Sir T. Holdich in 1897 in his report upon the Ceylon surveys.
5. You will be given all facilities for obtaining the necessary information, and you may examine any person employed by Government whose evidence you may wish to obtain upon any subject connected with your mission.
January 2, 1907.
• 44331: not printed.
ELGIN
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