one of the interesting features in siamese legislative history has
been the promulgation, from time to time, of general laws organizing
or- reorganizing the structure of particular ministries and departments.
we have already seen how such a proclamation in 1892 set forth a comprehensive framework for the twelve newly established ministries. In
1908, such a regulation was adopted for the Ministry of Agriculture. It provided for an organization containing four substantive departments,
plus a headquarters structure containing departments for the director general,
correspondence, and accounts, and six offices for agricultural
inspection located in various regions of the country. The four substantive
departments included, besides Land Registry, Cultivation, and
Canals, a Department of Survey and Mapping. However, the following
year this new department was transferred to the Department of War
in the Ministry of Defense. But, as if in compensation, a Cadastral
Survey Section in the War Department was shifted to the Ministry of
Agriculture's Land Registry Department.