OTHER CHARGES-continued.
£;
Brought forward
£ 1,265
£
الت
£ 2,265
Cadastral Branch-
Local Transport and Labour and Native Labour
800
1,600
including Rations.
Chainmen
370
270
Instruments, &c.
250
250
Contingencies
Printing and Lithography
100
100
***
50
50
Payments to Licensed Surveyors
3,500
4,000
5,160
6,370
Total other charges...
6,425
8,635
Total Survey Department ...
12,599
17,609
• Payment to Licensed Surveyors is recovered in its entirety from Survey Fees. The actual amount spent this year on Licensed Surveyors is £6,028.
Survey Department,
Approved Estimate 190-1907.
Estimate for 1907-1908.
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11th of January,* that the date of the assembly of the survey class for Colonial officers, to be held at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, has been fixed for the 22nd of May, in order to fit in with the other arrangements of the Ordnance Survey.
2. In these circumstances it will not be possible to include in the class any officers who have not reported themselves to the Colonial Office Lefore the 15th of May.
I have, &c.,
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No. 27.
ELGIN.
(No. 2.)
EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE. MAJOR E. H. HILLS to COLONIAL OFFICE.. (Received April 3, 1907.)
SIR,
Entebbe, Uganda, February 21, 1907. 1. IN continuation of my despatch, No. 1, of February 5th,t I now have the honour to forward a full report upon the Survey Department of British East Africa.
2. In submitting this I should explain that there is one important point con- nected with the survey that I have not specifically dealt with in the report, the orders given to Captain Smith to start the trigonometrical work in the Sotik District. 3. The reasons for this step were set forth in Colonel Sadler's despatch to the Colonial Office, No. 564, of October 19th, 1906.
4. I cannot but think that the decision was an error of judgment. There is, as far as I can ascertain, no likelihood of any rush of settlers to such a remote district so long as land much more favourably situated remains unoccupied, and the nett result of sending the survey parties there has been to postpone, by nine months, the starting of the work in the centre of the country where maps are urgently required. The work is, however, now finished, with the exception that a small cadastral party will be engaged for a few weeks in laying out farms. This they should complete before the coming rains. It will then not be necessary for the survey to revisit that region until its turn comes for topographical mapping in the ordinary course.
5. The recommendations in my report have been explained to the Director of Surveys, and, in cases where they concern his Department, to the Land Officer. All such as lie within the province of these officers will be adopted forthwith.
6. I am of opinion that Captain Smith has started the organisation of the whole department upon sound lines, but there still a large amount of attention and industry required before the cadastral branch is reduced to the requisite degree of system and efficiency.
The other members of the survey staff, as far as they have come under my observation, are fully qualified for their posts, and I can see no reason why the survey should not become a thoroughly efficient department fully equal to all reason- able requirements of the country.
7. A copy of the report and of this despatch has been furnished to the Acting Commissioner.
SPECIAL EXPENDITURE.
£
£
£
£
ات
Superintending Staff-
40
Stationery
Books
Passages...
Total Superintending Staff...
5
48
93
Trigonometrical Branch-
Passages
70
Total Trigonometrical Branch
70
Cadastral Branch-
150
Equipment
5
Booka
25
Stationery
386
Passages
25
Freight
Total Cadastral Branch
Total Survey Department, Special Expenditure
591
2,635
754
السائل
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O.885
18 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
35728/06
No. 26.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNORS, &c., OF CERTAIN COLONIES AND PROTECTORATES.*
SIR,
Downing Street, March 22, 1907.
I HAVE the honour to inform you, with reference to my despatch of the
• This despatch, mutatis mutandis, was sent to Gambia, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Northern Nigeria, Southern Nigeria, Somaliland, Uganda, East Africa Protectorate, British Central Africa Protectorate. Transvaal, Orange River Colony, Ceylon, Federated Malay States, and British Guiana.
Enclosure in No. 27.
I have, &c.,
E. H. HILLS.
[Extract printed as Colonial Report-
REPORT ON THE SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF BRITISH EAST AFRICA.
History.
For the purpose of this report it is not necessary to enter at any length into Miscellaneous, the past history of survey work in the Protectorate. The position of affairs, as No. 44.] they stood previous to the spring of 1906, when the present Director of Surveys
• See No. 11.
† No. 20.
No. 128 in African No. 777.
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at the date of the assembly of the survey class for Colonial che Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, has been fixed for order to fit in with the other arrangements of the Ordnance
imstances it will not be possible to include in the class any reported themselves to the Colonial Office Lefore the 15th of
I have, &c.,
ELGIN.
No. 27.
EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.
OR E. H. HILLS to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received April 3, 1907.)
Entebbe, Uganda, February 21, 1907. on of my despatch, No. 1, of February 5th, I now have the Il report upon the Survey Department of British East Africa.
this I should explain that there is one important point con- y that I have not specifically dealt with in the report, the iSmith to start the trigonometrical work in the Sotik District. or this step were set forth in Colonel Sadler's despatch to the k, of October 19th, 1906.
think that the decision was an error of judgment. There is, ain, no likelihood of any rush of settlers to such a remote
much more favourably situated remains unoccupied, and the the survey parties there has been to postpone, by nine months, ork in the centre of the country where maps are urgently is, however, now finished, with the exception that a small e engaged for a few weeks in laying out farms. This they
e the coming rains. It will then not be necessary for the region until its turn comes for topographical mapping in the
adations in my report have been explained to the Director of where they concern his Department, to the Land Officer. All
province of these officers will be adopted forthwith.
on that Captain Smith has started the organisation of the on sound lines, but there is still a large amount of attention before the cadastral branch is reduced to the requisite degree
J.
rs of the survey staff, as far as they have come under my qualified for their posts, and I can see no reason why the me a thoroughly efficient department fully equal to all reason- he country.
report and of this despatch has been furnished to the Acting
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O.885
18 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO
Enclosure in No. 27.
I have, &c.,
E. H. HILLS.
[Extract
printed as
THE SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF BRITISH EAST AFRICA.
History.
Colonial Report--
of this report it is not necessary to enter at any length into Miscellaneous, rvey work in the Protectorate. The position of affairs, as No. 44.]
the spring of 1906, when the present Director of Surveys
† No. 20.
No. 128 in African No. 777.
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