The kingdom of . ficers or householdersof the district. The governor of the province sendsthree or more names to the high commissioner, whoselects one of them. He chooses his own assist-ants, but their appointment must be approved ofby the governor and confirmed by the high com-missioner. All other appointments are made by the Ministryof the Interior. District officers, headmen, andelders must be Siamese subjects resident in theirdistricts and take the oaths of allegiance twice ayear according to their own form of religion. Thereis no religious disability. One most important feature of
The kingdom of . ficers or householdersof the district. The governor of the province sendsthree or more names to the high commissioner, whoselects one of them. He chooses his own assist-ants, but their appointment must be approved ofby the governor and confirmed by the high com-missioner. All other appointments are made by the Ministryof the Interior. District officers, headmen, andelders must be Siamese subjects resident in theirdistricts and take the oaths of allegiance twice ayear according to their own form of religion. Thereis no religious disability. One most important feature of the administrationis the meeting of high commissioners, who assembleonce a year at the capital under the presidency ofthe minister to discuss and draw up the programme The Government 15 for the following year and report on the past yearswork. Under the Ministry ot the Interior are also theForest Department and the Mining Department;under the Ministry of Agriculture are the Survey,Land Record, and Irrigation CHAPTER III A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF SIAM 17 CHAPTER III A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF SIAM BY THE DIREC-TOR-GENERAL OF THE ROYAL SURVEYDEPARTMENT SIAM, **The Land of the White Elephant, TheLand of the Yellow Robe, The Country ofthe Tai, i. e.^ the Free, is situated in the south-east corner of Asia. Geographically it may bedescribed as lying within the fourth and the twenty-first parallels of north latitude and between theninety-seventh and the one hundred and sixth paral-lels of eastern longitude. Siam is bounded on the north by Tong-king(French) and the Southern Shan States of Burma(British); on the west by Annam (French) and Cam-bodia (French); on the south lie the Gulf of Siamand the Malay Peninsula stretching southward, andwashed on the west by the Indian Ocean, and onthe east by the China Sea, and bounded itself onthe south by the Federated Malay States (British). 19 20 Kingdom of Siam The length of Siam, north and south, is about1130 miles, and the breadth, a
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