94. சிவகங்கை ஜமீன் இந்த ஜமீன் தோன்றிய வரலாறு இக்கட்டுரையின் முதற்பகுதியிலேயே கூறப்பட்டுள்ளது. சரபோஜி II காலத்தில் சிவகங்கை ஜமீன்தாரின் மகன் சிறையில் வைக்கப்பெற்றனன். அவனை விடுவிக்க வேண்டும் என்று மகா ராஜாவுக்குச் சிரஸ்தேதார் எழுதியதாக1828க்குரிய ஆவணக் குறிப்புள்ளது." ஜமீன்தார் மகன் சிறைப்படுத்தப்பட்ட காரணம் புலப்படவில்லை. Permission to repair his dykes ......... the fertility of the Kingdom of Tanjore (which produces not only its own but for a great part the sustenance of neighbouring countries) depends on the keeping up in perfect repair the banks and dykes of the several ramifications of the river Cauvery. He only desires, according to ancient usage to be authorised to repair the banks of that river at his own expense, The king of Tanjore cannot admit the reasonableness of the cause assigned by the Nabob for interrupting these necessary works, namely, that such a power in his hands, is a first means of over awing the King of Tanjore and bringing him to an unlimited submission to his will. The ground of the claim he conceives to be as insulting as the exercise of it is pernicious. The power of bringing famine on an whole people, at the arbitrary pleasure of a Stranger, is an improper power ; and such as no man ought to possess or can in decency pretend to. Temporary and occasional stops have indeed been put to the acts of violence which used to prevent the repairs but nothing is settled Or decided as to the right and no security given for the enjoyment of it. Until that right is asserted and that security given, no considerable expense can be safely |aid out and no permanent Work can be undertaken. - The King of Tanjore therefore earnestly requests an immediate instruction to the Presidency of Madras that it shall be publicly notified and avowed that he shall always be intitled to the repairs of the banks of the river, on the former footing, without interruption from any person, or upon any pretence what ever : when this is done, he engages immediately to undertake a well Constructed and substantial work which will be of benefit to all that part of India. - r The Madras Despatches: Calendar for 1764–65; Page 433 : The Nawab is unreasonabe to oppose the Tanjore repairs of the banks of Cauveri. The Nawab should be desirous of maintaining friendship with Tanjore and content himself with establishing order in his own government............ The company-considers that the King of Tanjore should have atleast the same liberty of repairing the Cauveri banks as he enjoyed formerly. - -- _ 23. அடிக்குறிப்பு 8க்குரியது காண்க, 24, 2-55
