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on the receipt of his report, at once proceed to deal with the question of the retention of Mr. Cotton in his office.
3. I consider it desirable that the enquiries of the inspecting officer should extend to the Survey School, a report on which accompanied your despatch, No. 848, of the 16th of December.* When his report is received I shall be in a position to form an opinion as to the future of the School, and in the meantime I approve of the retention of Mr. Barnes as instructor on a temporary engagement subject to termi- nation at one month's notice. I also approve of the engagement of Mr. W. F. Hole as the European instructor on the terms suggested by Sir W. Egerton in his despatch, No. 795, of the 28th of November,† and at a salary of £450 a year rising by annual increments of £10 to £500 a year, but it should be understood that his engagement must be regarded as provisional, pending the receipt of the report of the inspecting officer.
4. It is probable that the inspecting officer will have completed his work before Mr. Cotton is due for leave, but if the question arises it will, in my opinion, be desirable that he should, if possible, defer his leave in order that he may be able to render the inspecting officer any assistance in his work that may be necessary.
5. I shall communicate with you in another despatch as to the appointment of a senior surveyor.
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No. 8.
FEDERATED MALAY STATES.
THE HIGH COMMISSIONER to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 20 February, 1909.)
(No. 24.)
MY LORD,
Government House, Singapore, 27th January, 1909. In reply to your Lordship's despatch, No. 342, of the 30th November last," I have the honour to transmit copy of a report by the Surveyor-General on the subject of the qualifications required of candidates for the Federated Malay States Revenue Survey Department.
I have, &c.,
JOHN ANDERSON.
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I have, &c.,
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Enclosure 1 in No. 8.
(Surveyor-General. 29/09.)
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SIR,
No. 7.
CEYLON.
MR. P. D. WARREN to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received 20 February, 1909.)
c/o Messrs. H. S. King & Co., Cornhill, E.C.,
19 February, 1909. WITH reference to your letter, No. 45004/1908, of the 12th instant (letter dated 12th February, 1908), I have the honour to inform you that the decision of the Secretary of State regarding my proposal for training surveyors is noted, and to express my appreciation of the offer of the Director-General of Ordnance Survey to conform the training at Southampton to the requirements of the Ceylon Survey Department.
2. When the new men are at Southampton I propose to go there to see what they are doing and consult with the Director-General. In the meantime the follow- ing are the chief items I should like attended to:-
(1) Triangulation with and without micrometers. Both are and repetition
systems.
(2) Main circuit traversing with theodolite and steel band (3 or 5 chains),
with and without temperature correction.
(3) Plotting (2) by co-ordinates.
(4) Detail or cadastral surveying. Country and town. Ordnance survey
methods.
(5) Plane tabling, triangulation, and detail. Indian system; inch 1 mile.
3. Of course, I do not expect that experts in all the above can be turned out. in a month, but they should be able to learn the theory with a fair amount of practice, so that after they join in Ceylon they will only require greater experience to become proficient.
I am, &c.,
P. D. WARREN,
Surveyor-General of Ceylon.
• No. 1.
No. 145 in Miscellaneous No. 210.
‡ No. 4.
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Office of the Surveyor-General, Federated Malay States,
Kuala Lumpur, 9th January, 1909.
Qualifications required of Candidates for the Federated Malay States Revenue Survey Department.
SIR,
In reply to your 23/09, dated 6 January, 1909, (1) the system of survey employed almost entirely by the Revenue Survey Branch is, owing to the nature of the country, the " traverse system," i.e., very accurate "traverses are run between points of the trigonometrical survey or in closed circuits which are connected more or less directly with these points, the "bearings" or angles of direction with the meridian being checked at intervals by astronomical observations. On these traverses are based the surveys of lands applied for for various purposes, and these surveys are also carried out by closed traverse circuits. All traverse surveys are computed by the usual method by which the accuracy of each survey is gauged by the amount of the closing error.
(2) The duties ordinarily falling to the lot of a "First Grade Surveyor" of the Revenue Branch consist chiefly in surveys such as above described for the purpose of registration of title. Some of the more rigorous traverses on which these surveys are based are also carried out by these Surveyors; but the most important of these control traverses are executed by Surveyors of the trigonometrical branch. The First Grade Revenue Surveyor has also to carry out circuit surveys for the control of less rigorous surveys of native holdings executed by native assistants.
(3) The minimum of professional qualifications to be possessed by candidates for appointment to this employment may be defined as sufficient knowledge of and experience in the following subjects:-
(a) The use and adjustment of the theodolite, level, tacheometer, plane-table,
prismatic compass, clinometer, and aneroid barometer.
(b) Measurement with steel bands or band chains and the corrections for such
measurements.
(c) The observation of angles, horizontal and vertical, and the application of
corrections.
(d) Observations for azimuth and time, and their computation.
The computation of minor triangulation.
(f) The computation of co-ordinates and area from a traverse survey.
(g) The computation of heights and reduction of level observations.
(h) The plotting of co-ordinates and preparation from the field book of a neat
and workmanlike plan of a survey.
• No. 141 in Miscellaneous No. 210.
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