APPENDIX. 



Order of GrOTt. 25t]i in con. 



28th July, 1836, Rer. Dept. 



No.eiO, SeeNote'J,page2n. 

 Do. 7tli in con. 9th Jan. 1837, 



Key. Dept. M"o. 14, Note 8, 



page i'1'2. 

 Prom Collr. Malabar 21st Deo. 



1841 in con. 13th Jan. 1842. 



Board to Principal Collector 

 of Malabar, 23d Jan. 1837, 

 No. 116. 



2. Those held by private individuals. 



3. Those brought under cultivation by the Bm-ghers. 



4. Those in the occupation of the Todas. 



5. Those entirely unoccupied, over a portion of which the Todas 

 have been accustomed to pasture their herds. 



IV. Lands usually under tillage by 

 the Burghers, are, it is understood for 

 the most part, roughly classified, and 

 the pubhc demand determined. Lands 

 which have hitherto been either altoge- 

 ther luiocctipied, or have been used on- 

 ly as pasture groimds by the Todas, 

 wih, on being taken iip for cultivation, 

 have to be assessed according to the 

 rates paid on land of sinular quality in 

 the nearest agricultural village, unless 

 when the land be within a specified distance from Ootacamund ; in 

 wMch case a difierent mode of assessment has been laid down in the or- 

 ders of Q-ovemment of 25th July, 1836, 

 and 7th January, 1837. These rates, it 

 is, however, to be observed, are charge- 

 able only on land taken by parties, 

 other than Burghers, for agricultural 

 purposes ; laud for buildings, com- 

 pounds, &c. vrill stm be assessed at Rs. 

 5-4-0 for one Cawney in each lot, the 

 rest being subject to the sissessment of 

 Es. 1-2-4 per Cawney, as pubUshed in 

 the Fort St. George Gazette of 1st Feb. 

 1837.* 

 The following Rules are to be understood as applying to all land 



Note, viz. for the 1st Class 

 double the amoirat paid for 

 the same class in the Bur- 

 gher villages — or 7 Rs. per 

 Bullah, or Rupees 2-5-4 per 

 Cawney — for the 2d class, f 

 more, for the 3d, J more, and 

 for the 4th, i more. 



Court's Despatch 21st June, 

 1843, para, 19. 



* Fage GO. 



V. 



taken up in any part of the Hflls by Europeans, or others, for agrieul- 

 tural speculations, or for building pm-poses. The Native inhabitants 

 of the Neilgherries wiU, however, continue as heretofore to hold, on Put- 

 tah, the lands now in theu' enjoyment, or any further lands which they 

 may take up for their own cultivation. Native Settlers from the low 

 country wiU also be allowed to hold, on similar tenure, such lands as 

 they may take up bond fide for their own occupancy. The Collector 

 will also be at hberty to allot to East Indians, Natives of the agrioul- 

 tm'al classes, Europeans of the lower orders. Pensioners, and others, 

 for houses and gardens, assignments of land not exceeding half a Caw- 



