280 THE SURVEY QUESTION IN COCHIN CHINA. 



francs. He set down the survey of four villages as the annual 

 work to be expected from each of the forty surveyors, and 

 concluded consequently that 16 years would be the period 

 required for the survey of 2,460 * villages. 



According to this scheme, to carry out the survey would 

 involve an expenditure of the sum of 23,304,784 francs. But 

 in this sum-total M. BoiLLOUX did not include the cost of 

 purchase and erection of permanent boundary-marks defining 

 cantons, villages, and holdings ; he supposed these charges to 

 be borne by the communes and by private individuals. Al- 

 lowing 40 boundary-marks to each village, at a cost of 5 

 francs per mark, there is an expenditure of 500,000 francs. to 

 be added to the estimate of M. BoiLLOUX for the demarca- 

 tion of villages alone. This sum must be increased ten-fold 

 to arrive at the cost of the permanent demarcation of private 

 properties. 



To maintain and turn to account this work, which 189 

 Engineers and Overseers will have thus completed in 16 

 years, a staff of 124 persons, exclusive of revenue officers and 

 valuers must be kept up, and under this heading M. BoiLLOUX 

 estimated an annual expenditure of 960,633 francs. At the rate 

 of 5% this sum represents a capital of i9,2i2,66ofrancs, 

 which added to the cost of thesurvey, namely, 23,304,784 francs 



makes a total of ... ... ... 42,517,444 francs 



as the expenditure which, in the opinion of M. BoiLLOUX, 

 would be required to carry out and maintain a cadastral 

 survey. According to these calculations the cost of the allot- 

 ment survey and the registration staff amounts to 10 francs 

 75 ernes, per hectare. 



These sums speak for themselves. But, even so, granting 

 the data (open to question though they are) on which M. 

 BoiLLOUX's calculations are based, the sums for which he 

 asks appear to me to be insufficient. 



In these calculations, in which, at first sight, he seems to 



* 2,560 (?)— W. E, M. 



