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Secretary of State for the Colonies and begs to acknowledge the receipt of Sir Francis Hopwood's note of the 19th April, 1907,* and the accompanying copy of a despatch from the Officer Administering the Government of the East Africa Protectorate, and tracings for a map of the Sotik and Lumbwa districts.
The map will be reproduced without delay, and the required number of copies will be furnished.
With reference to the last paragraph of Major G. E. Smith's letter, a copy of which accompanies the despatch above mentioned, Major-General Ewart cannot advise that permission should be given to this officer to correspond direct with the Director-General of the Ordnance Surveys.
Such a course would tend to prevent the Colonial Office and War Office from acquiring up-to-date information of the progress of the surveys, and it is essential that those who have a knowledge of the whole question should see and criticise the maps; moreover, many of the maps, including the map in question, belong to the War Office series, and it is desirable that the style and manner of reproduction should
be uniform.
Major Smith is in error in supposing that the present system is a cause of delay or that there are any reasonable grounds for apprehending loss or damage to the maps. Moreover, the maps cannot suitably be reproduced by the method which he proposes.
With regard to the question in the fifth paragraph of Major Smith's letter, Major-General Ewart would suggest that the Officer Administering the Govern- ment should inform Major Smith that he should in future cases, send home to the Colonial Office one finished tracing, giving all the colours on one sheet.
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THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE ACTING COMMISSIONER. (No. 237.)
SIR,
Downing Street, April 26, 1907. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 106, of the 19th of March last,* and to transmit to you, for your information, the accompanying copy of a communicationt which has been received from the Director of Military Operations on the subject of the proposals contained in the letter from the Director of East Africa Protectorate Surveys, a copy of which was enclosed in your despatch above mentioned.
2. I have to inform you that I concur in the views expressed by Major-General Ewart and to request that the course indicated in his letter may be duly followed.
I have, &c.,
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THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNORS, &c.† (Sent April 24, 1907.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by Nos. 46, 48, and 66.]
April 24. Send home as soon as possible progress diagrams showing area covered by triangulation, traverse, and detail survey on various scales up to May 1. Also send brief summary of work of Department during past year for inclusion in annual report.-ELGIN.
EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE ACTING COMMISSIONER.
(Sent 2.15 p.m., April 26, 1907.)
TELEGRAM.
[Answered by No. 39.]
April 26. Referring to your despatch, No. 106,* what are fundamental latitude, longitude, datum height, on which map is based?--ELGIN.
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THE DIRECTOR OF MILITARY OPERATIONS to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received April 26, 1907.)
[Answered by L.F. transmitting copy of No. 39.]
Topographical Section, General Staff,
War Office, Whitehall, S.W., April 25, 1907. The Director of Military Operations presents his compliments to the Under- Secretary of State for the Colonies, and with reference to Sir Francis Hopwood's note of the 19th instant,* enclosing a map of the Sotik and Lumbwa districts, would be obliged if a telegram could be sent to the Officer Administering the Government of the East Africa Protectorate, asking what the fundamental latitude and longitude and datum height are, upon which the map in question is based.
• No. 30.
↑ Sent to the Gold Coast, Southern Nigeria, and the East Africa and Uganda Protectorates.
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(No. 3.)
SIR,
MAJOR E. H. HILLS to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received April 30, 1907.)
Nairobi, British East Africa, April 9, 1907.
WITH reference to your letter, No. 45930, of December 19th, 1906,‡ on the subject of the inspection of the Survey Departments in Africa, I now have the honour to forward my report upon the survey of Uganda.
the
2 It will be observed that, while suggesting several improvements in organi- zation and method, I have not been able to propound any drastic scheme whereby survey of the native estates can be greatly expedited. I had hoped that I might be able to devise some such system, but, after a careful inspection of the country and of the actual survey now being done, I have come to the conclusion that the work is being executed in a simple and economical manner and that to substitute any rough or approximate methods would ultimately mean increased expenditure. Such a course would inevitably result in some, if not all, of the work having eventually to be repeated, while, by proceeding steadily upon the lines indicated, a first-class permanent cadastral map of the country will be produced at a not extravagant
cost.
3. Though the completion of the map cannot be expected for a considerable number of years, it appears to me, as pointed out in the report, that the delay is
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