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MANUAL OF THE NILAGIRI DISTRICT. 



CHAP. XVII. 



MUXICIPALI. 

 TIES AND 



Stations. 



— municipal 

 limits. 



— Municipal 

 Commission. 



— receipts and 

 expenditure. 



The municipal limits are much less extensive and exclude the 

 Wellington Cantonment. They were fixed by notification dated 

 27th July 1869 as follows :— 



" On the east by a line drawn from the Sappers' burial-ground on 

 the old ghat up to Nungappa Row's land adjoining Mr. Wait's plan- 

 tation, and on the top of the hill on the north side of which Mr. 

 Mann's tea plantation is situated, taking in the Bandy Sholah road 

 and the houses named Woodhouselee, Mr. Hall's house, and Elk-hill 

 House ; then along to the top of the hill and down its slope to the 

 nullah below Colonel Grant's house to a point in a line with the house ; 

 then along the nullah to the point at which it turns eastwards towards 

 Coonoor. From this turn of the nullah the boundary runs in a direct 

 line over the hill to the bridge on the Coonoor and Ootacamund road, 

 in the east side of Wellington, and from the bridge including the Milk 

 Village along its east side, and thence in a direct line to the Karteri 

 stream ; then eastward down the stream to the junction of the Karteri 

 and Coonoor streams, then up to the latter stream, to the side of the 

 new bridge, and from there in a direct line to the Sappers' burial- 

 ground on the old ghdt, whence it first started." 



The height of All Saints' Church above the sea-level is 5,954 

 feet, that of the Coonoor bridge about 5,500 feet. Most of the 

 houses occupied by Europeans are between 5,700 and 6,000 feet 

 above sea-level. Coonoor Peak, however, is 6,893 feet above 

 sea-level, or only 300 feet below the level of the Ootacamand lake. 



Coonoor was constituted a Municipality by notification, under 

 Act X of 1865, on the 19th October 1866. The Commission is 

 administered almost wholly by European residents, but the 

 Station Medical OflBcer ordinarily ofiiciates as Vice-President. 

 The Commission has done much to improve the station in sanitary 

 as well as sesthetic matters, but the town still lacks an adequate 

 water-supply and a systematic drainage. The steepness, however, 

 of the ground, on which the greater portion of the Native town is 

 built, supplies the want of drainage when scoured by the heavy 

 rains, which wash down the debris of the town pretty thoroughly 

 and thus mitigate the many existing sanitary defects. With the 

 exception of the profession tax, the taxes laid down in Act III 

 of 1871 are levied. The tolls however are in the hands of the 

 Local Fund Board, and, as in Ootacamand, the Government main- 

 tain the main thoroughfares. 



The following statement shows the receipts and expenditure of 

 the Commission during the ten years ending 1877-78 exclusive of 

 loans, &c, : — 



