No. 31.— 1885.] 



PLUMBAGO. 



247 



Appendix Ho. 6. 



Report on the following Petition for permission to dig for 

 Plumbago on Crown Lands, referred by the Govern- 

 ment Agent of the Western Province to the 

 Mudaliydr of Hew a gam Korale. 



To whom addressed :— The Hon. the Government Agent, Western 

 Province. 



Name of Petitioner : — Merenge Don Sadris Senerat Appuhami, of 

 Liyanwala. 



Purport of Petition : — Praying for permission to dig for plumbago in 

 an acre of Crown land called Wellendalanda, situated at 

 Liyanwala in the Meda Pattu of Hewagam Korale. 



Date of Petition:— 2nd June, 1885. 



Report No. 464. 



Name of Land:— Wellindalanda. 



Boundaries : — North by land purchased by Abraham Appuhami and 

 Don Carolis Appuhami; south by a goraka tree and a 

 kahata tree ; east by goraka tree and ant-hill ; west by a 

 date tree and kahata tree. 



Description of timber trees onthe land : — No valuable trees. 



How far from nearest forest ? No forest. 



Whether petitioner is a lessee of any other land or not ? No . 



His character and means ? Bears a good character; he has no landed 

 property in this district, but he says that he has in the 

 Rayigam Korale. 



Whether there is an abandoned pit on the land, and, if so, abandoned 

 by whom ? No, 



Reference to any former reports made touching this land : — None. 

 (A printed application is enclosed for the survey of the land.) 



J. M. E. PlERXS. 



Ranale, 8th June, 1885. 



Appendix Mo* 7* 



Form of Lease of Plum bago Land. 



THIS Indenture, made at Colombo on the 6th day of July 

 in the year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and 

 Eighty-five, between the Hon. F. R. Saunders, Government 

 Agent for the Western Province, acting for and on behalf of 

 Her Majesty Queen Victoria, of the one part, and M. Don 

 Sadris Senerat Appuhami, of Liyanwala, his heirs, executors, 

 administrators, and assigns, of the other part. 



