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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

C.O.

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18 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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Survey Department should be diminished by one surveyor, three assistant surveyors, and one Indian draughtsman, and the contingent expenses should be cut down proportionately.

The topographical survey section should be totally independent of the Survey Department. For military discipline, it should be under the Officer Commanding Troops, but otherwise the Officer Commanding Section should report direct to Ilis Majesty's Commissioner.

The rates of pay of the section should be those approved for boundary commis- sions. The Officer Commanding Section should have distinct orders to complete the topographical survey of the Kingdom of Uganda in 24 years.

The Survey Department of Uganda should confine itself to the estate survey. This will be greatly to the benefit of the Survey Department, which will now be able to devote its energies to the very important work of the cadastral survey required by the Uganda Agreement.

5. The general effect of this step will be:-

(1) The Survey Department will be free to devote itself entirely to the estate

survey.

(2) There will be a net saving on the topographical survey of about £10,000. (3) The topographical survey will be finished in 2 years instead of 9. NOTE. Under any scheme there is a small area so infected with sleeping sic! ness that the risk of life to the surveyors is too great to be worth incurring.

COST OF UGANDA SURVEY SECTION.

Salaries (as approved for boundary commission):—

2 Lieutenants at £526

2 Corporals at 13s. 1d. per diem

4 Lance-corporals at 11s. per diem

Porters

Contingent

...

Upkeep of 10 mules

Total annual expenditure

Period at work 24 years

Pay on six months' leave :-

2 Lieutenants

2 Corporals

4 Lance-corporals

Pay on board ship outward:-

2 Lieutenants

2 Corporals at 5s. 7d.

diem per

4 Lance-corporals at 3s. 6d. per diem

:

The

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gross cost of the Survey Section will thus be made up as below:--

Annual expenses for 23 years

Leave, pay, &c.

Initial expenses

Gross cost

and the cost per square mile will be £0.94.

£9,038

1,293

2,330

£12,661

Cost of present method of conducting the Topographical Survey of Uganda.

Annual cost:--

1 Surveyor

3 Surveyors

1 Draughtsman Porters Contingent

Add 1/5 surveyors for leave

£350

900

120

624

100

£2,094

250

£2,344

And the survey is estimated to last at least 9 years

£21,096

To which is to be added the cost of 12 passages home

and 12 back, say

1,000

£22,096

£1,052 477

803

1,000

100

The mean annual cost will thus be, £2,455.

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3,615

The mean annual out-turn, 1,500 square miles. The cost per square mile, £164.

£9,038 A

£526

239

402

"KINGDOM " OF

UGANDA.

NOTE on the triangulation.

Up to August, 1906, the area beaconed

82

88

17

21

£1,293. B.

£2,330 C.

for the main triangulation was

for the secondary triangulation was

13,630 square miles 11,550

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the completed area of main triangulation was

4,660

23

the completed area of secondary triangulation was...

5,060

""

11

Up to May, 1907, the area of main triangulation completed was 7,622 square

miles. Area of secondary work was not reported.

There is thu's enough triangulation completed to suffice for the cadastral needs

of, at least, the next seven years.

Any additional triangulation required for the topographical map will be provided by the topographical section.

The Survey Department need not execute any more triangulation for at least five years. All the available surveyors can be freed for employment on the cadastral work.

October 8, 1907.

C. F. CLOSE.

E. H. HILLS.

Initial expenses:—

Outfit, officers', at £50

£100

Outfit, non-commissioned officers', at £20.. Instruments

120

200

Tents

160

Mules, 20 at £50

1,000

Tools

50

Passages out and home

700