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MANUAL OF THE NiLAGIEI DISTRICT. 



CHAP. XIII, of the District Engineer, Coimbatore. The rules as finally settled 

 PART III. were promulgated in 1863. The articles especially relating to 

 survey, are (1) that lots should not exceed 500 acres without, or 

 10 acres within, station limits ; (2) that each lot should be compact, 

 and as nearly as possible a parallelogram — road or water frontage 

 not to exceed half the depth of the block ; (3) no lot to be sold 

 until surveyed and durable marks fixed. 



In October 1863, partly with the view of expediting the 

 disposal of applications for waste lands, the Special Assistant 

 Collector was transferred from Malabar. Considerable sales 

 of waste lands took place in 1863-64, and towards the close of 

 1864 the Government ordered three surveyors to work on the 

 Nilagiris under the orders of the Superintendent of Revenue 

 Survey, Colonel Priestly. It appeared that the rules had been 

 disregarded ; that the lots were not compact, and included streams 

 which should have been excluded. The decision as to the shape, 

 &c., of the land to be sold was, before survey, to be fixed by the 

 revenue officers of the district. Whilst the Assistant Collector 

 was in charge of the demarcation about 7,000 acres were marked 

 out and subsequently surveyed prior to the transfer of the work to 

 the Revenue Survey Department, but much of this had necessarily 



Revenue 

 History. 



Special 

 Assistant 

 Collectoi' 

 placed 

 in charge 



Work trans 

 ferred to 

 Superinten- 

 dent, Revenue ^Q -^Q revised in accordance with the stricter requirements of this 

 Burvey. • t i i t . . 



department. In some cases considerable discrepancies m area of 



estates were discovered. In 1865, on the representation of the 

 Superintendent of Revenue Survey that the two surveyors were 

 unaided by demarcators, draughtsmen, or computers, the Govern- 

 ment sanctioned the employment of such assistants, but they 

 were to be borne on the strength of the nearest survey party. 

 Towards the close of the same year the Government ordered the 

 Superintendent of Revenue Survey to arrange for the survey of 

 the cinchona plantations, and in the following year directed that 

 the Hill stations should be mapped on a large scale, as many 

 surveyors being employed as might be necessary to complete the 

 work in a year or eighteen months. Subsequently the employ- 

 ment of a detachment of No. 1 party on the Hills was sanctioned, 

 and later in the year the party was strengthened by the transfci" 

 of the Wainad surveyors during the unhealthy season. 



Settlement In October of the following year the Government fixed the 



limits. exact limits of the hill stations as follows : — 



Rules for 

 conduct of 

 operations. 



Gotacamand 

 Coonoor . . . 

 Kotagiri . . . 



3 miles radius from the Jail. 



2 do. Gray's Hotel. 



2 do. the Church. 



At the same time the Government approved the following rule 

 for preparation of survey plans. All reserves, whether of streams, 



