GOYEENMENT OF MADEAS. 

 REVENUE DEPARTMENT 



Read — the following letter from Diwan Baliadur S. Srinivasi 

 Raghavaiyengar Avergal, to the Secretary to Govern- 

 meut, Revenue Department : — 



Adverting to your demi-official communication of the 5th 

 March 1892, i have the honour to submit a complete copy of 

 my " Memorandum on the Progress of the Madras Presi- 

 dency during 'the last Forty Years." 



2. The collection aud reduction of the necessary statistics 

 and the preparation of the second part of the memorandum 

 took up more tiuie than 1 had anticipated, and 1 was able to 

 complete the work only last May notwithstanding that I 

 took privilege leave for three months in the beginning of 

 this year for the purpose. 



3. I should be wanting in ray duty if T did not brino- 

 to your notice the valuable assistance rendered to me by 

 M.R. Ry. C. kSarvothama Row, b.a., travelling clrrk of my 

 office, and M.R.Ry. R. Saminathaiyar, b.a., head clerk in the 

 Revenue Secretariat. The heavy work of compilation and' 

 reduction of statistics under my directions and the correction 

 of the proofs devolved on Sarvothama Row, and but for 

 the assistance cheerfully afforded by him at all times I 

 should have found it impossible to do ' this special work 

 along with my official duties. R. Saminathaiyar made ab- 

 stracts of official and other papers required for the earlier 

 portions of the memorandum, and I have utilised his high, 

 mathematical attainments and sound knowledge of economic 

 principles in getting some of the intricate calculations 

 ohecked. 



Order — dated 20th October 1893, No. 915, Revenue. 



Miccellaneous. 



With the foi-egoing letter Diwan 

 Bahadur S. Srinivasa Raghavaiyen- 

 gar, (J. I.E., submits to Government, in 

 a complete form, his "Memorandum on the Progress of the 

 Madras Presidency during the last Forty Years of British 



