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PART III. 



Revenue Survey. 



First survey. — Major Ouchterlony's survey. — Surveyors appointed on introduction 

 of Waste Land Rules. — Special Assistant Collector placed in charge. — Work 

 transferred to Superintendent, Revenue Survey. — Settlement limits. — Rules for 

 conduct of operations. — Survey operations after creation of Nilagiri Commis- 

 sion. — Work performed. 



The first revenue survey, as distinguished from topographical,' CHAP. XIII, 

 was carried out by the orders of Mr. Garrow, Collector in Coim- PART III. 

 batore, in or about 1805. I have already quoted Mr. Sullivan reTenue 

 to the effect that it was purely nominal. In 1820 Mr. Sullivan History. 

 obtained permission to have a rough survey of the cultivated lands, 

 but what the results of that survey were I have not been able to 

 ascertain. 



The first systematic survey, however, of the Nilagiris was that First survey. 

 ordered by the Court of Directors in 1843. It was completed 

 in 1847. It combined, in a measure, revenue with topographical 

 information. It did not extend to the Kundas. The results 

 are detailed in Major Ouchterlony's " Geographical and Statis- Major 

 tical Memoir.'' It showed the area of the plateau of the Nilagiris ^^'If^^'ey '■^''''^'' 

 proper to be 268,494 acres (no allowance being made for undula- 

 tions in the surface) ; 23,772 acres had up to that date been 

 brought under cultivation, of which between fifteen and sixteen 

 thousand appear to have been kept ordinarily under the plough. 



The Waste Land Rules necessitated a fresh and more detailed Surveyors 

 survey. This survey, however, succeeded the introductioa of the appointed on 

 rules, whilst Major Ouchterlony's preceded the promulgation of the of WasteLand 

 " manual " of 1849. In May 1862, in reply to enquiries from the Rifles. 

 Collector of Coimbatore, the Government ordered (1) that one or 

 two surveyors should be sent up to the Hills temporarily, but that 

 the establishment sanctioned for Wainad would subsequently be 

 available for some months in the year for work on the Hills ; 



(2) that parties applying for land should specify boundaries ; 



(3) that hill stations should embrace lands within three miles of 

 the centre of Ootacamand and one-and-a-half mile of that of 

 Coonoor and Kotagiri ; (4) that the Collector should reserve lands 

 required for public purposes. At the end of 1862 the establish- 

 ment employed on the Hills consisted of two surveyors on 

 Rupees 150 each. These surveyors worked under the supervision 



1 Mr. Macmahon's notes in 1811-12 and Captain Ward's memoir of survey 

 in 1820-2-4 will be found in the appendices. 



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