HIGH COURT OF MADRAS. 



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unless called upon to do so by the Judges of the Court. The 

 Governor- General in Council at Fort William and the Gov- 

 ernors in Council at Madras and Bombay were authorized 

 to appoint such persons being British subjects as they 

 should think fit to be Coroners for their respective Presiden- 

 cies with the same powers as Coroners in England. The 

 Justices of the Peace were to provide for the cleansing, 

 watching, and repairing the streets of the towns or factories 

 of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay ; and for defraying the ex- 

 penses thereof to make and levy assessments on the owners 

 or occupiers of houses, buildings, and grounds in the said 

 towns or factories. No spirituous liquors were to be sold in 

 Calcutta, Madras, or Bombay without a license from the 

 J ustices ; and the Governments of the several Presidencies 

 * were to declare and prescribe the limits and extent of their 

 respective Presidency Towns. 



No question as to the extent or limits of the Town of 

 Madras appears to have arisen until the establishment of the 

 Court of the Eecorder, when, by an order of the Governor in 

 Council, dated the 2nd November 1798, the day after the 

 Proclamation of the Charter by which the Court of the Re- 

 corder was established, it was resolved and ordered that 

 the southern limits should be the southern bank of the 

 St. Thome River as far as the road leading to the Long 

 Tank ; that the limits should then be continued in a northern 

 direction #long the bank of the Long Tank ; and from thence 

 along the bank of the Nungumbaukum Tank as far as the 

 village of Chettoopet upon the banks of the Ponamaly River ; 

 that the limits should be continued in the same direction to 

 the villages of Kilpaukum and Perimboor, and from the latter 

 village to take an eastern direction to the sea so as to include 

 the whole village of Tondiarpetta. 



This order was some years afterwards characterized by 

 Sir Thomas Strange as upon the whole a well meant one, the 



