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ascistance, to undertake and prosecute

vigorously

the

mone

pressing works already sanctioned, and Secondly, owing to my ront arrival in the Colony Ifelt I was _ -sufficiently acquainted with the

not

details

the

of the department to make definite uggestions for the reorganisation of staff of Clerks, Accountants, and Overseers, Before entering on that part of the subject it

that I should give appears to

of further investigations into the

the result.

state

me

recessary

of the Survey branch of the Department

Land Survey

Daily experience only

serves

to

prove that the Survey of the Colony is in

a

state

of such utter confusion that it is

absolutely imperative that steps should

be taken to remedy

ad

with as

little

the most unsatisfactory

2 possible condition in which I

delay

tisfactory

found

the Land

Surveyor's Office on my

are/

arrival. Questions

constantly being referred to this Office involving differences between the Colonial

Government

D

Government

or

vent and the Military Authorities,

• private land-owners and lessecs (of whit

Cares Come

last class of

litigation) that

Carr

may

lead to

only be settled by

reference to a plan and in many instances no accurate plan

exists . The state of this brauch

after my

revealed to me soon

when

ow

or survey

or:

was

arrival

the resignation of the Land Surveyor (Mr Sampson ) . He informed

was in charge of no plans

me that he

surveys,

over

formed

and

or

:therefore had nothing to hand to his successor. On invectigation I

that such plans and surveys as

do exist were distributed about the accessible to

offices

one in.

any official of the Department, and apparently in charge of no particular.

So far

a.o

I have been able to

accertain the history of the surveys of

Colony

a

is somewhat as

• follows :

the

Soon after the occupation, in 1845,

trigonometrical survey of Hongkong.

(soale