PRESIDENCY OF FORT ST. GEORGE. 127 



No. XXXIX. 



Year. 



Territory. 



How acquired, and District now- 

 representing it. 



Approximate 

 Area. 



Land 

 Revenue. 



1795 .. 

 1814 .. 



Cochin, City 

 of. 



October 19th.— Surrendered to the force 

 sent against it by the Governor of 

 Madras, Lord Hobart. Attached since 

 1802 to Malabar Collectorate. 



Finally ceded to the British Government 

 by treaty at the time when the other 

 Dutch Indian Settlements, captured the 

 same year, were restored to Holland. 



SQ. MILES. 



3 



RS. 



11,283 



No. XL. 



1795 . 



Tangacherry . . 



Adjoins Quilon, in the Travancore country, 

 on the west : a Portuguese possession 

 from 1555 to 1665, then captured by the 

 Dutch. The fort is built on a headland 

 of laterite, jutting into the sea, the 

 length about 1\ furlongs east and west, 

 and mean breadth 1 furlong. Land-tax 

 185 rupees. Add land-tax of four 

 patoms or gardens belonging to the 

 settlement, Rupees 237. 



This territory came under the English 

 Government on the capture of Cochin in 

 this year (Local Records), and, like that 

 city, is attached to the Malabar Collec- 

 torate. 



jth 



422 



No. XLI. 



1799 . 



Districts 

 acquired by 

 the Partition 

 Treaty of 

 Mysore. 



July 13th. — Partition Treaty of Mysore 

 between the English, the Nizam, and 

 the Peshwa for the adjustment of the 

 territories of the late Tippoo Sultan. 



The districts acquired by the English and 

 now incorporated in the Madras Presi- 

 dency are — (1) South Canara, (2) 

 Coimbatore, (3) the Nilgiri Hills except 

 South-East Wainad lately added to that 

 district, (4) so much of the Salem 

 District as is contained in the taluk of 

 Hosur (Oossoor), (5) the Venkatagiri 

 Kota Taluk of North Arcot, and (6) a 

 portion (one-third) of the Punganur 

 Taluk of North Arcot. 



13,000 



42,00,000 



