Madras Harbour: Proposed Improvements: On the 4th December last, the Chairman of the Harbour Trust Board wrote to the Madras Government as follows; … … (Long discussion includes) … … (ii) Harbour Improvements: In my letter No. 343, dated the 2nd June 1891, I submitted to Government a proposal made by Mr. Pinsent, the Board’s Secretary, for a deep water tidal dock in the sand accreted to the south of the Harbour with a canal entering the Cooum south of the Fort; and in its order thereon G.O. No. 347 Marine, dated the 4th August 1891, Government ruled with reference to the question of the erection of Commissariat godowns upon the proposed site – that “the Harbour Trust Board has no right to or control over the accretion on the south side of the Southern arm of the Harbour,” and “the Government directs that no buildings, excepting sheds of the most temporary character which can easily be removed shall be constructed on any portion of the land … (continues) … …
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GRO0133 India: Charles Powell Tronson Pinsent: 1849 – 1904