1844] 



of a Pier at Madras. 



perintendence by the Subscribers ; for the supply of the materials by contract ; 

 for a remuneration of 15 per cent, on all the expenditure to the executive En- 

 gineer; for permission to levy duties, &c. and by estimates of the cost, re- 

 turns of the trade, tonnage, &c, which have been omitted. 



No. 2 is the return of the Tonnage and Trade of the Port (App ces - S and 

 T) on which the Committee based their calculations of the profits that might 

 be expected to accrue from the undertaking— and Nos. 3 and 4 (App ces 

 W X) detail the reports of Sub-Committees on the Surf, Tide, Currents and 

 Soundings at Madras. A valuable and interesting paper by Monr. Duval Piron, 

 on the general subject of improving the communication from the shore (Ap- 

 pendix C) forms No. 5, and the specification of his proposed Pier (Appen- 

 dix R) is printed as No. 6.] 



No. 1. 



To 



The Right Honorable Lord Clive, 



Governor in Council, 



Sfc. Sfc. Sfc. 



My Lord, 



Though the Honorable the Court of Directors did not think proper to 

 give their sanction to the plan and proposal for erecting a solid Pier at 

 Madras, which I had the honor to lay before this Government in 1798, 

 from an apprehension of an accumulation of sand being likely to form, 

 which would in the end render it useless, yet, so strongly is my mind 

 impressed with the great disadvantages to which the trade of Madras is 

 subject, from the natural difficulties which present themselves to a 

 communication between ships and the shore, and from an ardent desire 

 to promote the public convenience, I am induced to offer to your 

 Lordship's consideration, two other modes of obviating those difficulties 

 and facilitating the trade of this Port. 



I am the more encouraged in the prosecution of this subject, from a 

 conviction I was taught to entertain of the support of the Honorable the 

 Court of Directors to the general design, were it not for the particular 

 reason above mentioned ; since neither of the plans which I have now 

 the honor to lay before your Lordship, are in any respect subject to the 

 same objections. 



The difficulty and danger of passing the surf, being the chief obstacle 

 to the safe communication with the shipping, the Plan No. 1 is intended 



