Administration ; Arwy.

The cliief Government officials, besides the Governor-General, are the Secretary-General, the Director of Intelligence and Agent-General (Cairo), the Inspector-General, the Legal Secretary, Financial Secretary, Director of Surveys, Director

of Works, Director of Education, Director-General of Irrigation,* Princ'pal Medical Officer, Director of Woods and Forests, Director of Agriculture and Lands, Director of Railways, Director of Steamers and Boats, Director of Telegraphs and Posts, Director of Customs, Principal Veterinary Officer, Director of Slavery Repression Depart-

ment*, and Superintendent of Game Preservation Department.

The duties of these officials sufficiently explain themselves by their titles.

The following are the names, at present (1904), of the chief officials : —

Governor-General Secretary-General Inspector-General Legal Secretary Agent-General, Cairo Financial Secretary

Major-General Sir F. Reginald Wingate, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., D.S.O. Colonel F. J. Nason, D.S.O. El Lewa Sir Rudolf von Slatin Pasha, K.C.M.G., C.V.O., C.B. E. Bonham-Carter, Esq.

Lieut.-Colonel Lord E. Cecil, D.S.O.

E. E. Bernard.

All the above (with the exception of the Legal Secretary, the Directors of Education, Woods and Forests, Superintendent of Game Preservation, and Director of Agriculture and Lands, who are civilians) are at present Britishf officers attached to the Egyptian Army.

In addition to one British battalion, at present furnished by the British Army of Occupation in Egypt and The Army, quartered at Khartoum, nearly the whole of the Egyptian Army may be said to be in the Sudan. The normal garrisons of the Sudan are as follows : —

Battalions.

Squadrons.

Artillery.

Miscellaneous Province. Additional

British.

Egyptian. i

Sudanese.

Egyptian.

Sudanese. Horse Battery.

Field Battery. Garrison tJompany.

Troops, if

Bahr-el-Ghazal 1 276 men, Gehadia. Berber — t — 3 1 — 1 — —

Dongola — 1 — — — — — — —

Haifa — — — — — ~ — — I Railway Bat

talion. Kassala — — — — — 1 Battalion Arab Camel Corps. Khartoum ... 1 4

1 " 1 (Max.) 2 2

Hd. - Qrs. A.G.'s Dept. and Works Dept. Kordofan

1

4 (!onip.%nies Camel Corps (3 Arab, 1 Sudanese). Sennar — — — — — — —

Suakiii — i — — — — — — —

Upper Nile — — — — — — —

Totals 1 C 6 3 1 1 3 2

As a rule, the Governor of the Province, being the senior British officer, is in MiUtary command of the troops in his Province.

* This Department is under the Egyptian Government. t Except the Inspector-General. X Detachments of Medical Coi'ps, Supply, Transport, Stores, Works, and Veterinary Departments are at all stations where necei-sarv.