PUBLIC WORKS AND ROADS AT BOMBAY. 
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Erection of a stone bridge over the Jacldee 
nullah, to secure a permanent communi- 
cation between Kamptee and Nagpore. 
1828 : 
Formation of a new road from the Walla- 
jah bridge, to the bar on the south side of 
the beach at Madras, annexing safety 
railings and poles, and fortifying the bank 
of the river. 
The mission chui’ch in the Black Town 
enlarged and improved. 
The lighthouse in Fort St. George repair- 
ed. 
Repairs made to Anderson’s Bridge. 
Construction of a causeway over the ditch 
at the drawbridge of the Mysore gateway, 
and one over that at the Bangalore gateway 
of the fort of Seringapatam. 
Formation of a road from Madras to 
Bangalore. (This work has been completed 
to Poonamallee, but beyond that place the 
work has been restricted to the object of 
making it passable for carts and ordnance 
carriages.) 
1829 : 
Military road through Coorg. 
Construction of a cutwal’s choultry at 
Jaulnah. 
Erection of a bridge over the Wootary 
nullah, at Fort St. George. 
The bar of the Coorm river partially 
opened at Chepauk, with a view of obtaining 
a supply of water from the sea by filtration. 
Erection of a wall and cast-iron railing 
round the church at St. Thomas’s Mount. 
1830: 
The construction of an anicut across the 
Kendalseroo river in Nellore. 
The reform of a portion of the grand 
anicut in the bank of the Cavery at 
Trichinopoly. 
The repair of the Bistee Ghaut in Canara. 
BOMBAY. 
1814 : 
The formation of a new road from Ban- 
coote to Mundgaum. 
Repair of the old docks ; the completion 
of the slope in the dockyard for raising 
timber ; the rebuilding the slip in the dock- 
yard; the removal of the dam; and the 
forming an ordnance wharf. 
Erection of a church at Surat : finished 
in 1823. 
1815 : 
Formation of a road from Bandorah to 
Gorabunder. 
1816: 
Erection of a Scotch church : completed 
in 1818. 
Construction of a chapel at Colabba 
authorized ; is now in progress on a new and 
more simple plan than was at first designed. 
1817 : 
Excavation of a tank at Bohur. 
A chapel proposed to be substituted for 
an unoccupied barrack at Tannah, as a place 
of worship : completed by Government in 
1826. 
1820 : 
The Committee aqueduct for supplying 
the lower part of the Black Town with 
fresh water, and the Byculla tank, under- 
taken; finished iivl824. 
Captain Hawkins’s plan for draining the 
flats of Bombay by the Woorlee channel, 
adopted. 
1821 : 
Rupees 20,000 expended by a native on 
a quarry near Byculla, to increase the sup- 
ply of water ; also a building for the ac- 
commodation of travellers ; and a large 
tank at Bandreah in the island of Salsette : 
undertaken and sanctioned by order of 
Government. 
A chapel at Poonah authorized in 1823. 
1822: 
A new wharf constructed at the port of 
Bombay. 
1824 : 
Construction of a town hall undertaken : 
not yet completed. 
1825 : 
Military road from the South Mahratta 
country to the coast. 
A church erected -at Dapoorlee ; also 
churches in the east zillah north of the My- 
hee, and at Baroda, and a Roman Catholic 
chapel at Colabba. 
Road from Nassick to Bhewndy : in pro- 
gress. 
1826 : 
Improvement of Sion causeway. 
A chain suspension bridge over the Mol- 
la river applied for by Government; a wood- 
en bridge at less cost substituted in 1830. 
Construction of a new obseiwatory sanc- 
tioned : finished in 1830. 
Construction of a church at Mhow 
authorized. 
1827 : 
Improvement of the Shore Ghaut pro- 
posed ; Captain Hughes’s plan for con- 
structing a road up it to Poona accepted : 
the work in progress. 
A church built at Kirkhee. 
Road from Malligaum to Surat, finished, 
1828 : 
Construction of bungalows at Malabar 
Point, and formation of a botanical garden 
at Dapooree, undertaken : not yet completed. 
