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When examined and completed the traces are forwarded to headquarters to be sun-printed, and a copy is then sent to the field clerk to make the necessary enquiry before registration. The traces are then transferred to the manuscript plans and drawn; these are again traced and sun-prints are prepared for the valuation officers and a copy supplied to the mukhtars of each village for reference in case of any application for transfer or division.

The present system of carrying out the survey greatly facilitates the rapidity of production of plans and reduces the number of surveyors required to carry out the work, and by that means reduces the cost of the survey.

The present system is quite accurate as long as we remain in a flat country like the Messaoria, and it can still be continued in the hilly ground by reducing the sides of the triangles to from three to four miles.

In conclusion, I hope the present system will meet the approval of the Colonial Survey Committee.

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I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 191, of the 15th of September,* on the subject of the proposed increase of the survey staff in Cyprus. I caused your despatch and its enclosures to be referred to the Colonial Survey Committee, and I enclose a memorandum which I have received from the Committee expressing general satisfaction with the work now being carried out.

2. On the immediate question of additional surveyors, paragraph 5 of the Memorandum raises certain points on which I have thought it best to consult you before taking steps for the selection of the men, namely, the emoluments to be offered to the new surveyors, and the position and emoluments of Mr. Douglas in relation to them. I may say that the matter was discussed generally with Major Clauson before his return to Cyprus.

3. The Committee appear to have overlooked the fact that the salary of £175 paid to the senior man would be supplemented, as in Mr. Douglas's case, by a sub- sistence allowance of £60 a year. If, as I presume, this allowance is entirely available for subsistence, and is not intended to cover also the expenses of transport from village to village, it constitutes a material addition to the emoluments, and I see no reason why a thoroughly competent surveyor should not be obtainable on these terms.

4. In the case of the junior man, however, no allowance in addition to the salary of £150 a year is proposed except the cost of removal from village to village, and I share the doubt of the Committee whether anyone could be found for this sum who would be competent either to carry out the work or to train Cypriot youths. I would suggest for your consideration that a subsistence allowance, which might be fixed at £40 a year, should be attached to this appointment also.

5. While I see no reason why these terms should not be sufficient, I consider that in all probability the appointments would be more attractive, and would induce more highly-qualified men to volunteer, if a consolidated rate of pay were substituted for salary plus subsistence allowance. The staff of the Ordnance Survey are accustomed to seeing their fellows selected for survey work in the Colonies at rates varying from £200 to £300 a year, and in considering the Cyprus appointments they would, I think, look rather to the rate of substantive salary than to the total emolu- ments. If you see no objection to an alteration of this kind, the annual rates of pay might be £240 or £250 for the senior man, and £200 for the other, to cover all expenses except expenses of removal from village to village, and with no allowance except the forage allowance of 1s. a day for the senior man, which is now granted to Mr. Douglas.

6. The suggestion of the Committee that Mr. Douglas should receive a higher salary than the senior of the two men now to be sent out raises the question of the

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