iv TABLE OF CONTENTS 



(iv) Culture of the banks — page 



(a) and (b) Transplantation of young oysters and the con- 

 current cultching of the banks 



(c) Cleaning of the banks by means of the dredge ... 



(d) Thinning out of overcrowded oysters 

 (v) Creation of a Fisheries Department 



XI. Comments on the recommendations made in I905 in the light of subse- 

 quent experience 



APPENDICES. 



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Appendix A. — A contemporary official account of the condition of the Indian 



pearl banks in 1663 ... ... .. ... ... ... 170 



,, B. — Detailed financial statement of the Ceylon Pearl Fishery of 1694... 173 

 ,, C.— Governor Rumpf's instructions defining the respective rights of the 

 Dutch Company and the native princes of Madura and Ramnad, 



1722 177 



,, D. — Despatch written in 1774 by the Dutch Governor of Ceylon on the 



advantage of leasing out pearl fisheries ... ... ... ... 179 



,, E.— Marks for the Ramnad and Tinnevelly Pearl Banks, according 



to Captain Wicks (1885) ... ' 184 



PLANS. 



Plans I and II. — Sketch plans of the Central Pearl Bank region showing graphi- 

 cally the groups which it is proposed to form by the linking 

 together of adjacent and related pars ... ... ... ... 188 



