Oo2 MANUAL OF THE NILAGIRI DISTlllCT. 



ClIAP. XIII, The general rules laid down in the Dehra Doon despatch may 

 PART II. by summed up as follows : — 



Rrvenue (1.) Grantee to erect and keep in repair boundary marks. 



^^^""^ '" (2.) Public thoroughfares or estates vest in the State and rights of 



Land Rules way to be respected. 



Doon '^ (3.) Grantee to pay 1 per cent, on his assessment for repair of public 



despatch. road.«!. 



(4.) Right to minerals reserved to Government ; right to remove 

 lime and other stone from river-beds within gi-ant to the public. 

 (5.) Right to distribute water reserved to the State. 

 (6.) Grantee to aid in the police arrangements of neighbourhood. 

 (7.) No grant to exceed 4,000 acres to one person; additional land 

 might be gi^anted at a certain sum per acre. 



(8.) Grants to be made in section of 1,000 acres. 

 (9.) In grants of forest lands certain number of sections to be 

 reserved for public timber requirements. 



(10.) All grants to be on lease, subject at expiration of lease to 

 ordinaiy assessment of the district. 



(11.) Sale or transfer of lands not brought under cultivation null 

 and void. Such micultivated portions to be regarded as personal and 

 hereditary only. 



(12.) No grant to be made without previous survey and fixing of 

 boundaries. 



(13.) Public competition by tenders to be invited ; highest to be 

 accepted. 



(14.) " Ancient common rights not to be abrogated until the land 

 is actually brought into cultivation." 

 A Manual of The Board of Revenue were required by the Madras Govern- 

 h'e prepared. Client to Submit a manual of instructions ^ embodying these 

 principles, but, though submitted very shortly after the receipt 

 of the order, the Government did not, as already stated, sanction 

 it until the close of 1849, after the completion of Major 

 Ouchterlony's survey. 



Right of set- Whilst these subiects were engaging the attention of the Board, 

 tiers to the . a a o > 



use of water, the question of the right of settlers on the Hills to apply the water 

 of the streams of the mountains to the irrigation of their farms 

 and gardens came before Government. The right so to utilize 

 the streams had been disputed by Mr. Wroughton, the Collector 

 of Coimbatore, especially in regard to the lands irrigated by the 

 Bhavani, on the ground that the water should descend unchecked 

 into his district, '^in virtue of maraool and prescriptive right, and 

 the great extent of irrigated land under that river, and the high 

 rate of assessment fixed upon it.^' The Board would not admit 

 the claim on the ground of prescriptive right, although the plea 



' The manual will be found as Appendix No. 5 of Maskell's edition of Board's 

 Circular Orders, 1855. 



