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

 turage. If the land be required 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 himself. The right of 

 the Burghers would seem to be simply that of occupation. No pur- 

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

 land, unless, (as in the low country,) the land 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. 



MEMOEANDTTM 



Bt/ Col. Cameron, C. S. Commandcmt in the Neilgherries, dated 

 August, 1856. 



1. — In addition to the numerous, and conflicting Ofiices, 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-assmned offices, similar to the functions of Banker, 

 Sohoitor, Notary public, Arbitrator, and Land Surveyor, the discharge 

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

 of his official duties. 



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

 of swindhng has long been carried on by natives, who, receiving advances 

 for contracts, fly to the low country, or tauntingly tell their uufor- 



