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Pass (Segur) should at once be made practicable for carts, and CHAP. xri. 

 that ten companies of Pioneers should immediately be employed r^^-x 

 on the work ; that travellers' bungalows should be built at History. 

 Bellikal on the head, and at Segur at the foot of the pass (also 

 at Tippukddu and at Donde in Mysore), and on completion of 

 these bungalows, others were to be constructed on the Wainad 

 and Coimbatore Passes. At Ootacamand the accommodation 

 being "meagre and inadequate" compared with the pressing 

 wants of the community, the following buildings were to be 

 erected forthwith : a hospital to accommodate 40 or 50 invalid 

 soldiers, costing 10,500 rupees; ten bungalows, each to accom- 

 modate four officers or two families, at 6,800 rupees each. 

 These buildings were to be " durably and well " constructed^ so 

 as to bear a second story if necessary. The Commissary- 

 General was ordered to supply chunam and the Gun Carriage 

 Factory all the wood-work and furniture, and " the most vigorous 

 exertions were to be used in carrying the resolution of Govern- 

 ment into effect." The neighbouring Collectors and even the 

 Resident at Mysore were warned to lend every assistance in 

 building this new temple to Joy and Health in this land, — to many 

 a land of dearth, drought, and dreariness. 



If in these energies Mr. Sullivan saw the approaching fulfilment Military 

 of the dream which had for nearly ten years occupied his imagin- 2°"oTnted^°* 

 ation, the pleasure was mixed with bitterness in the appoint- 

 ment of a Military Commandant, though he himself had advocated 

 the appointment of a special officer. The duty of supex'vising 

 the hills, which had " hitherto devolved upon a Committee of 

 Public Officers or upon the Principal Collector, Coimbatore," 

 was held sufficiently burdensome to constitute a separate chai'ge. 

 The Commandant was to control all public buildings, public 

 works, and establishments, and " all military persons of inferior 

 rank to his own who may proceed thither." All arrangements for 

 purchase or sale of public property were to be made through 

 him, and all applications for quarters to him. He was to report 

 progress weekly. Major Kelso, of the 26th Native Infantry, was 

 selected for the post, with a staff allowance of Rupees 400 per 

 mensem. 



But these activities induced conflicts. Mr. Sullivan being Official 

 shortly afterwards ordered, in communication with this officer, ^j^°^g' "'^' 

 to allot gi'ound for a military bazaar. Major Kelso sought to 

 mark out a large cantonment some ten or twelve square miles 

 in extent for this purpose, and to construct the native bazaar 

 at the spot now called Charing Cross, below Stonehouse ; 

 Mr. Sullivan to restrict it to a small space for a bazaar, 

 which he wished to locate near the west end of the lake. 



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