APPENDIX. XXXIX 



Todas, can be held to have bought any other right than that of pas- 

 turage. If the laud be requu*ed for cultivation, it must still be disposed 

 of, under the Rules in force, by pubhc auction, for that purpose ; the 

 Goodoo on the land, when such may clearly appear to be payable, 

 being, in that case, paid to the party who has purchased the right of 

 grazing from the Todas, in place of to the Toda hunself. The right of 

 the Bui-ghers would seem to be simply that of occupation. No pm*- 

 chase therefore, concluded with a Burgher, can confer a title to any 

 land, unless, (as in the low country,) the laud sold be sheycal land, i. e. 

 land immediately in the occupation of, and under cultivation by the 

 latter, and that, subject to the hmitations and conditions of each descrip- 

 tion of land. 



XXII. Copy of this Manual, and of the papers referred to in it, are 

 to be furnished to the Commanding Officer of the Hills, for his infor- 

 mation, and for public convenience and reference. 



Appendix, No. VII. 



MEMORANDUM 



Bi/ Col. Cameron, C. JB. Commandant in the Neilgherries, dated 

 August, 1856. 



1. — In addition to the numerous, and conflicting Offices, assigned to 

 the Commandant and assistant Magistrate of the Neilgherries, the pub- 

 lic, particularly the European portion of it, insist upon his fulfilling, in 

 addition to these, self-assvuned offices, similar to the functions of Banker, 

 SoHcitor, Notary public. Arbitrator, and Land Surveyor, the discharge 

 of wliich add, in no slight degree, to the harassing, and onerous nature 

 of liis official duties. 



2. — ^From the defective state of the Law, a regularly organized system 

 of swindling has long been carried on by natives, who, receivmg advancea 

 for contracts, fly to the low covmtry, or tauntingly tell their unfor- 



