420 LAND RKCISTKATION FN MoZAM lUOL'K. 



In the regions of the district of Inhanibiine and of the old 

 district of ( iaza, Hkewise covered l)y the geodetical triangulation 

 and which approximately coincides with the territorial zones of 

 greater demand and movement of lands, the same judgment pre- 

 sided to the project of the charts and organisation of the topo- 

 graphical networks. 



J he greater part of the Province, however, is not i)rovided 

 with fundamental triangulation. Work of this nature involves 

 considerable expense — the i)ortion which has l)een carried out 

 having already cost 120,000,000 reis. Field work is, unfortun- 

 ately, exceedingly slow, on accottnt of all kinds of difficulties aris- 

 ing from most varied circmnstances ; the network of calculations 

 required to complete the work, in so far as concerns the working 

 out of figures and final results, takes many months, and some- 

 times even years, to concltide ; on the other hand, the adminis- 

 trative requirements of the services of the Property Registration 

 Department, inconsistent with the slowness of geodetic work of 

 first class, which is really the fundamental one, remits the 

 technical iiroblem to the field of ex])edite geodesy and numerical 

 cadastral topography. 



From this point of view, one of the solutions wotild be the 

 carrying out of small independent triangulations to be connected 

 at anv time with the geodetical triangulation ; and. according to 

 our ])lan of ])artial charts, triangulations are separated from the 

 district compartments of the ])reviously-mentioned records 

 which recjuire to be made liefore any other work is undertaken, 

 in order to guarantee the ])recision of the geometrical plan. In 

 fact, the identification of ])roperty is not merely guaranteed by 

 the peripherical beacons of its perimetral contour. It is neces- 

 sary to preserve the geometrical Survey of the country done at 

 the State's expense, and which is shown by material indications 

 erected on the vertices of its triangulations, because from the 

 knowledge by calculation of the i)osition of its vertices, depends 

 the reconstitution at any time of the property beacons obliterated 

 through any cause, and the identification of which is ensured by 

 the diagram accompanying the titles. 



The s)stem of independent triangulation is the same which 

 I found in the Transvaal, where the first class triangulation. does 

 not cover all the country, the geometrical plan of the cadastral 

 records there being very similar to our technical system, and 

 having as a final result the title of property. 



Althotigh the staff, etc., in our neighbouring colony, is 

 numerically and incomparably superior to ours, the analogy is still 

 to be found in the categories of the i)ermanent staff' and private 

 geometricians, and it will not be difficult in future to arrive at a 

 complete i)arallel with those important services, by im])roving 

 our permanent staff, wherever necessary, and by the creation of 

 a school for the theoretical instruction of private surveyors. This 

 school, judging 1)y the dealings which are taking place in landed 



