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Appendix I. 
APPENDIX I. 
No. 1426, dated 7th July 1879. 
Proceedings of the Government of Madras, Revenue Department. 
TRANSLATION. 
Psctract from the “ Monitenr Qfflciel ” of the French Settlements in India, dated Friday, 
the 4th April 1879. 
Aetesiau Wells. 
In publishing the report of the Colonial Engineer, President of the Commission on 
Artesian Wells, on the boring operations carried on in the Jardin d’Aoclimatation, the 
Administration desires to draw attention to the important results obtained, and to the hopes 
which this successful experiment should give rise to as regards the interests of agriculture. 
It is, in effect, advisable that private industry taking advantage of the experience acquii'ed, 
should apply the same processes to borings to be made in other parts of the territory. 
The Administration proposes, moreover, to utilize the apparatus which the Colonial 
Council first thought of getting out from France, on works for which sanction will be 
requested from the Elective Assemblies, with the view of extending these boring operations 
which are more productive and useful in this Colony than anywhei’e else. 
Enclosusb No. 1. 
Report on the Operations of Boring an Artesian Well in the Jardin d’Acclimataiion 
at Pondicherry, dated Pondicherry, 2ith March 1879. 
Mons. V Ordonnafetir. —Conformably to your communication, No. 333 of the 15th 
February last, I have the honor to forward a full report on the operations connected with 
boring an artesian well in the Jardin d’Acclimatation at Pondicherry. 
In order that the report may be complete, I have deemed it necessary to go back to the 
formation of the Commission appointed by order of the 23rd February 1877, and to the 
commencement of the operations which decided the Administration to encourage and popu¬ 
larise an advance in the means of the Colony, and of which the results ought to prove most 
beneficial to agriculture and rural requirements. 
Consequent on the success achieved in sinking an artesian well by the aid of the 
Savana” Machine as carried out by Mr. Charles Poulain, Manager of Poulain’s Spinning 
Factory, a Commission appointed by an order of His Excellency the Governor, dated 23rd 
February 1877, under the pre.sidency of the Colonial Engineer and Chef du Service of 
Roads and Bridges, proposed to the Administration on the 20th of June of the same year 
that a complete set of machinery for boring should be procured. This Commission inti¬ 
mated their preference for that of Messrs. Ddgousee and Lippman to any other, and sug¬ 
gested that a sum of 1,200 francs should be placed at the disposal of Mr. Charles Poulain 
(who found himself without funds) in order that he might carry on his work. 
The machinery arrived in the Colony on the 4th September 1878, and the Commission, 
after visiting the Jardin d’Aeclimatation, were unanimously of opinion that the well oncht 
to be sunk in the centre of the basin in th.it garden, that situation being the one which 
offered the greatest facilit 3 ' for ii'rigating so large an extent of ground presuming the 
probable success of the undertaking. 
