PRESIDENCY OF FORT ST. GEORGE- 



No. XXXVI— {Continued). 



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Year. 



Territory. 



How acquired, and District now 

 representing it. 



Approximate 

 Area. 



Land 

 Revenue. 



1781 ., 



1785 . 



1795 . 



1818 . 



1825 . 



Jagannathpu- 

 ram. 



Palicole 



Porto Novo 

 Factory. 



Tuticorin 



A suburb of Cocanada, the chief town of 

 the Godavari District ; here the Dutch 

 had a factory with the following depen- 

 dencies, viz., the village of Gollapalem, 

 the ground at Gundavaram, and the 

 factory at Draksharamam. 



A town 6 miles from Narsapur, Godavari 

 District, with its dependent village, 

 Kontera, and a piece of ground at 

 Narsapur. 8 



The Dutch Factory house and the bleach- 

 ing place called Wannarpalaiyam. 



(A seaport in Tinnevelly District).— The 

 fort 9 and city of Tuticorin with its nine 

 subordinate Commercial Lodges, viz., at 

 Alwar Tinnevelly, Koilpabam, Shaind- 

 mangalam, Munnapar, Permakoil, the 

 Island of Alandale, the Island of Fresh- 

 water; Kilkarai (in the Madura District), 

 and Cape Comorin. 



(1.) The foregoing six Dutch Settlements 

 (together with Pulicat andNegapatam) 10 

 were taken by the English in this year 

 in Lord Macartney's Governorship 

 (Local Records). 



(2.) July. — All six restored to Holland 

 under treaty with the States General of 

 20th May 1784 (Local Records). 



(3.) All six surrendered to the English 

 on war again breaking out. Lord 

 Hobart was Governor of Madras at this 

 period (Local Records) . 



(4.) 31st March. — All six restored to 

 Holland agreeably to the Convention of 

 the Allied Powers in 1814 (Local 

 Records). 



(5.) 1st June. — All six ceded to Great 

 Britain under the treaty of March 1824 

 (Local Records). 



ACRES. 



182 



so. 



MILES. 



5 



Factory 

 premises 

 only. 



80. MILES. 



-^oths. 



1,336 



10,166 



Nil 



286 



8 The ground at Narsapur on which the Dutch Factory stood was washed away by the 

 Godavari river many years ago. 



9 The fort at Tuticorin is exactly 3-29 acres in extent 

 it north, scuth, and west. 



10 Vide Acq. Nos. II and XXXVII. 



the rest is the Dutch city surrounding 



