PRESIDENCY OF FORT ST. GEORGE. 123 



No. XXXIII— (Continued). 



Year. 



Territory. 



How acquired, and District now 

 representing it. 



Approximate 

 Area. 



Land 

 Revenue. 



1782 .. 

 1786 .. 

 1792 





(5.) Reoccupied by the Chief of Telli- 

 cherry (paragraph 44) . 



(6.) Seized again by the Eaja of Cherakal. 

 (paragraphs 45 and 46). 



(7.) Fell to the Company with rest of 

 Malabar under the Treaty, dated 18th 

 March 1792, with Tippoo, 7 and placed 

 by the Bombay Commissioners under 

 the direct collection of the Company's 

 Government (Malabar Commission Re- 

 port, paragraph 85). 



SQ. MILES. 



RS. 



No. XXXIV. 



1768 . 



The Circars of 

 Chicacole, 

 Rajahmun- 

 dry, Ellore, 

 Mustafana- 

 gar, and 



Murtizanagar. 



26th February. — On this date there were 

 ceded by the Nizam in treaty with the 

 Government of Fort St. George, subject 

 to an annual payment (since commuted) 

 of 7 lakhs of rupees, the Circars of (1) 

 Murtizanagar alias Guntur alias Konda- 

 vidu ; (2) Mustafanagar alias Konda- 

 pilli ; (3) Ellore ; (4) Rajahmundry ; 

 (5) Chicacole alias Kalinga. This ces- 

 sion, together with the cession of 14th 

 May 1759 {vide Acquisition No. XXXI) 

 and the taluks of Bhadrachalam and 

 Rakapalli {vide Acquisition No. 

 XL VIII) comprises the whole of what is 

 now known as the " Northern Circars " 

 or the four extensive Madras Districts 

 of Ganjam, Vizagapatam, Godavari, and 

 Kistna : ' the two last mentioned having 

 been formed out of the three old districts 



. styled Rajahmundry, Guntur, and 

 Masulipatam in 1859. 



Note. — The above date, 26th February 

 1768, is generally reckoned as that of 

 the actual cession of these territories, 

 and was so recognised by law— vide 

 Section II (late) Madras Regulation 

 XXXI, 1802: and rightly so, because 

 the Sanad of the Mogul Emperor, dated 

 12th August 1765, assigning this 

 territory to his Sepoy Sirdars, the 



SQ. MILES. 



40,217 



7 Vide Acq. No. XXXVIII. 



