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PERIYAR LEASE DEED - 1886


This is the first page of the original Lease Deed of 1886. You can see the seal of Registrar Office of the Travancore Palace on the left margin.


LEASE OF LANDS
IN TRAVANCORE FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE PERIAUR PROJECT
INDENTURE made between the SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA and the MAHARAJA OF TRAVANCORE in respect of the lease of certain territory in the Travancore State in connection with thePERIYAR IRRIGATION PROJECT -1886.
 
This indenture made the twenty-ninth day of October One thousand eight hundred and eighty-six (corresponding with the fourteenth day of Tulam 1062 of the Malabar era between the Government of His Highness the Maharajah of Travancore hereinafter called the Lessor) of the one part and the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for India in Council of the other part witnesseth that in consideration of the rents hereinafter reserved and of the covenants by the said Secretary of the State for India in Council hereinafter contained the Lessor done  hereby demise and grant upto the said Secretary of State for India in Council his successors and assigns tail of whom are intended to be included in and to be referred to by the expression the Lessee hereinafter used.). First. All that tract of land part of the tributary of Travancore situated on or near toe Periyar river bounded on all sides by a contour line one hundred and fifty-five feet above the deepest point of the bed of the said Periyar river at the site of the dam to be constructed there and shown in the map or plan hereunto annexed and which said tract of land is delineated in the said map or plan hereunto annexed and therein coloured blue and contains eight thousand acres or thereabouts.

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