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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference :-

C.O. 885

22 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH—NOT TO

Present position.

Additional

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is particularly fortunate in possessing. His present rate is £525, his appointment terminates in September, and he is desirous of entering the Colonial service perma- nently. In the interests of continuity, it is very desirable that the appointment of head of the topographical branch should be filled by a permanent official, and I suggest that the salary of such an official should be the same as that of the heads of the two cadastral branches.

The increase in 1915 involved by the new rates of pay would be:-

Director, Southern Branch, increase of duty pay

Director, Northern Branch, increase of duty pay Director, Topographical Branch, salary

Director, Topographical Branch, duty pay

£20

20

75

120

£235

The total increase in 1915, due to the proposed organisation, is, therefore :--

Assistant Surveyor-General and staff Regrading of heads of branches

£1,416

235

£1,651

As shown in paragraph 44, the above increase is less than would be incurred if special officers were employed for the command of the mines section and map compilation.

XI. Finance.

47. Appendix IX. gives a summary of the expenditure on surveys in Nigeria in 1914 and 1915. The amount provided for 1914 for the Northern Provinces survey should be considerably reduced, owing to all the vacancies for assistant surveyors not having been filled yet.

The amount provided for 1915 is approximate, and [? contingent] on the approval of the Estimates.

The total amount provided for 1914 is :—

Recurrent expenditure

Special expenditure (including a supplementary estimate for five non-commissioned officers who have been added to No. 2 party)

Total, present organisation

£39,847

14,554

£54,401

48. The proposals for re-employment of four non-commissioned officers of provision. No. 1 party, and the temporary appointment of an Assistant Surveyor-General and draftsman involve an additional expenditure in 1914 of £2,370, giving a total of £56,771 for the year..

Decrease of

expendi-

ture.

Revenue

from

minea

surveys.

This total decreases slightly in 1915, and will show a marked decrease in 1916 and 1917, when the special work of the Mines Section is completed.

49. The revenue for 1914 is chiefly from the survey of mining areas, and was calculated at:-

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On the other hand, Item (ii.) is increased by the fact that £4,016 of survey fees

are collectable in 1914 from the work of No. 1 party up to 1st March, 1914.

The total revenue should, therefore, be £26,000 approximately.

In 1915 the revenue from mines surveys in the Northern Provinces should be approximately £14,000.

50. The above revenue takes no account of the earnings of the Kano revenue Earnings section in 1914, although there is still time for this section, if started in September, of revenue to make from £1,000 to £1,500.

The cost and revenue of a revenue survey section are given in Appendix X. Presuming that the staff of Europeans and computers is maintained as suggested in the Estimates, the duties of the fifth class surveyors (mallamai) would be entirely confined to work in the field.

At a moderate estimate, one man should complete 640 acres of survey in one month, or a total of 6,400 acres in a year, working for ten months. He earns £320 in survey

fees at 1s. an acre.

Every year will show an increase of excess of revenue over expenditure until the section attains its full strength. In the third year, with 50 maliamai, the excess is £4,133. When the section attains its full strength, the excess should be about £7,000.

anrvey

section.

51. It is, therefore, evident that the greater the number of revenue sections and Excess of the quicker that the school can train the mallamai, the smaller will be the net cost of the gradual increase of the salary list by increments and promotions.

52. I submit that the revenue from revenue survey fees, amounting as it will in the next few years to upwards of £50,000 per annum, forms such an appreciable item in the revenue of Nigeria as warrants early and complete arrangements for the training of mallamai and the working organisation of the revenue surveys.

I further submit that these arrangements should be the special work of the Surveyor-General's Office in order to free the remainder of the Department for

routine work.

XII. Miscellaneous.

revenue

over ex-

penditure.

lication.

53. I recommend that the publication of the topographical maps of Nigeria Map pub- should, in future, be placed in the hands of the War Office, the expenses being met by the vote for map publication in the survey estimates. Homogeneity with other topographical maps will thereby be maintained, any details of peculiar local value being indicated by the Surveyor-General.

54. I recommend that the staff of the Nigerian Survey should be selected by Selection the Colonial Survey Committee, and that the titles of first and second grade and of staff and Assistant Surveyors be replaced by those of Superintendents and Assistant Super- intendents.

The titles in the Department should be:-

Surveyor-General.

Assistant Surveyor-General.

Superintendent (of Survey and of Computations).

Assistant Superintendent.

Assistant Computer.

Superintendent Draftsman.

Office Superintendent.

F. G. GUGGISBERG, Major, R.E.,

Surveyor-General.

titles.

(i.) Northern Provinces survey

£8,000

(ii.) No. 1 party mines section

£1,000

London,

(iii.) No. 2 party

16,740

April 30th, 1914.

(iv.) Additional earnings by re-employment of four

non-commissioned officers of No. 1 party

3,120

Total mines section

(v.) Southern Provinces survey

20,860 2,000

£28,860

SCHOOL.

APPENDIX IV.

FIRST CORRESPONDENCE ON THE SUBJECT OF THE KANO REVENUE SECTION AND KANO

(Northern Nigeria. No. 461.)

SIR,

Item (iii.) will be reduced by £4,900, owing to the fact that No. 2 party arrived over two months later than was anticipated, and did not have the advantage of working for a time with No. 1 party. Item (v.) can also practically be wiped out, as there is no activity in the new tinfields at Calabar.

Government House, Zungeru.

15th July, 1912. WITH reference to my despatch, No. [459], dated the [15th of July, 1912. I have the honour to transmit herewith a memorandum written by Major Guggisberg relating to a cognate subject, that is to say, the land revenue survey of the Protec

Land

revenna

torate.

survey.

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