CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5] — Page 152

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The setting out in the New Territories of areas granted

to certain parties known as Taxlords, who were recognized by

Government as having some claim to compensation in the form

of land for the abolition of certain fees they had enjoyed

prior to the British occupation, took up about a fortnight of

a surveyor's time and a month of a tracer's time.

Much clerical work is involved in carrying on the dual

duties of land survey and superintendence of Crown lends con-

ducted by the Land Survey Branch.

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year.

Mape published. No maps were published during the

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Miscellaneous matters.

The multifarious nature of

the work performed by this branch in the preparation of sale

particulars and lease plans, of permits and licences for cul-

tivation, boat breazing, slipways, piers, &c., of schemes for

the laying out of new areas and the improvement of many insani-

tery areas and villages, of setting out reclamations, new roads,

10., 10., precludes the possibility of any considerable amount

of systematic survey work. The total length of traverses run

during the year between the triangulated points already valued

and accepted, exclusive of detail lines, mounts to about 60

miles.

The following is a brief summary of the other work accom-

blished:-

261 lease plans (in triplicate) with particulars were

prepared.

27 sale plans (in duplicate) and sale conditions were

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prepared.

1,917 plans and sumprints in connection with proposed sules,

permits, piers, squatters' holdings to. were prepared

or traced,

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