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dealt with, it is not possible to say that all chances of error 

 have been excluded. If any errors are brought to notice, 

 I shall thankfully correct the,m and issue an erratuna. 



Though the work has outgrown the limits of a Memoran- 

 dum, the original form has been retained, the object through- 

 out being not so much to furnish cut and dry conclusions as 

 to indicate the methods of investigation to be pursued and 

 furnish materials as far as possible for forming a judgment 

 as to the improvement which has taken place in the condition 

 of the agricultural classes, and as to the further measures to 

 be taken for their amelioration. On some of the subjects 

 dealt with under the latter head, such as agricultural and 

 technical education and widening the scope of local adminis- 

 tration, my remarks are necessarily general, as my intention 

 is to point out the necessity for increased attention in certain 

 directions, and not to lay down the precise measures to be 

 adopted, the determination of which must, of course, be based 

 on a thorough investigation of the conditions of the localities 

 to which they are to be applied. It is hardly necessary to add 

 that the views I have expressed on these and other matters 

 are my individual opinions submitted for the consideration 

 of Government, and are not to be understood as reflecting 

 the opinions of the Government itself. 



I must in conclusion express my grateful acknowledg- 

 ments to several gentlemen who have favoured me with the 

 results of their observation and experience in connection 

 with the inquiry forming the subject-matter of the Memoran- 

 dum, and to Mr. Hill, the Superintendent of the Government 

 Press, for the ready and willing assistance afforded by him in 

 passing this work through the press. My thanks are also 

 due to Mr. Cardozo, by whose kindness I have been enabled 

 to prefix a map of the Presidency to the Memorandum. 



Palmaner, S. S. 



2\st May 1893. 



