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THE COLONIAL SERVICE.

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Minutes on proposed Reorganization and the Appointment of a Depart- mental Committee.

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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Mr. ChamberLAIN,

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IN November, 1895, you instructed me to tabulate the various officials that might be held to come under the head of the Colonial Service generally, with a view to your informing yourself of the full dimensions of that Service, and how far it could be reasonably compared to any correspond- ing Service, such as the Indian Civil Service. With the assistance of Mr. Harris I have, since that time, been engaged in carrying out your instructions, and I now present to you for con- sidofațion a table such as I understood

you wished for. You will see from the table that the Service has been divided into the following heads:- Governors and Administrators, Legal, Medical, Engineers, Civil Service-including Police, and Specialists.

The Civil Service comprises all men engaged in the ordinary service of administration. The Specialists comprise a few sailors and soldiers, but mainly Schoolmasters, Chemists, Botanists, &c.

The Return is practically confined to the Crown Colonies; the Governors of the self-governing Colonies are included, but with the exception of the High Commissioner's Secretary and Staff at the Cape of Good Hope there are practically no officers in the self-governing Colonies, with the exception of the Governors, who are not the servants of the Colonies or who are in any sense under the control of the Colonial Office. The Return must not be considered as absolutely inclusive or absolutely accurate in all its details, for complete exactitude could hardly be obtained without reference to each particular Colony, at least as regards the officers whom I have classed 4.8 "Civil Service," and divided into "chief" and "subordinate." A special difficulty attached to this sub-division, and it might not be difficult to point out that the dividing line has not been accurately drawn, but the idea of the sub-division is to show, as far as possible, how many officers are usually appointed from England, and how many

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