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MANUAL OF THE NILAGIRI DISTRICT. 



CHAP. XIII, 

 PART III. 



Revenue 

 History. 



is 17,115, the average area in acres is 12 02, aud the cost per square 

 mile of demarcation and survey, including registry, is Kupees 

 1,606-14-10. This rate is based on cost of survey of settlements 

 24 inch, as well as other tracts 16 inches to a mile. The whole 

 area (704'27 square miles) has been topographically surveyed on 

 2 and 4 inch scales at a cost per square mile of Rupees 37-8-8. 

 The cost of revenue survey of the three settlements — Coonoor, 

 Ootacamand and Kotagiri — which comprise an area of 53*70 

 square miles, is Rupees 3,137-6-11 per square mile, and of the 

 remainder of revenue survey is Rupees 1,225-5-6 per square 

 mile. The work remaining to be done on 16-inch scale is O'lO 

 square mile fields to be plotted, 21*97 square miles to be detailed, 

 and 95*72 square miles to be finished ; and these will be completed 

 by the end of September 1879 ; and the work remaining to be 

 done on 2 and 4 inch scales is 81 42 square miles to be plotted, 

 122*22 square miles to be detailed, and 249*50 to be finished, and 

 these should be completed by the end of December 1879, except- 

 ing the Malabar boundary, which remains undecided. 



