IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. 



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the Lawrence Asylum and other* puhlie buildings about to be 

 erected at Utakamand. Periodical sales for the benefit of the 

 community will take place. 



21. Salem. — A brief report of the operations of this district 

 will be found in App. F. 



The proceeds consist of two items — seignorage for sleepers 

 supplied to the Eailway Co., amounting to Es. 23,471-10-0 ; and 

 seignorage for house-building material taken by wood- merchants 

 at E. 1 per cart load, which realised Es. 6,010. 



The great pressure for railway sleepers is nearly over in this 

 central province, and we have now to consider matured arrange- 

 ments for the ordinary demands which may be expected. . A 

 statement is annexed, shdwing the number of sleepers delivered 

 during the year in the Salem district, and the trees furnishing 

 them, as far as it has been possible to ascertain them. Con- 

 sidering the difficulty of getting accurate information from 

 native contractors, this return cannot be considered absolutely 

 correct, but it is sufficiently so to enable us to deduce some useful 

 results: — 



* A church, penitentiary, and soldiers' rest-house have been sanctioned. 



t The number of trees furnishing sleepers is not so large as this list 

 indicates : 10 and 27 are Inga xylocarpa ; 5 and 24 are the same Ter- 

 minalia ; 7 seems to be identical "with 49 ; 3 and 21 are Conoearpus latifolia; 

 22 and 39 are Soymida febrifuga. 



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