Excerpt from The Sacred Chank of India: A Monograph of the Indian Conch (Turbinella Pyrum) Tuticorin in 1791, when the net produce was divided equally between the Dutch and Mr. Torin acting for the Madras Government who had assumed the revenues of the Nawab. And in 1794 the Dutch received as their half share in the chank fishery for that year, the sum of pagodas. In the next year the Madras Govern ment had again to take possession of Tuticorin from the Dutch to whom it was not given back till 1818. Upon the rendition of the fort and factory, the Nether lands Commissioner demanded an admission ofhis right to the whole revenue from the pearl and chank fisheries, a claim which the East India Company resisted as having succeeded to the sovereign rights of the Nawab of the Carnatic. The Madras Government pointed out that the pearl banks being scattered along the coast of Tinnevelly could not therefore come within the limits of any Dutch settlement; that the Portuguese and after wards the Dutch usurped the command of the whole Gulf, they said was very probable and it was quite probable that the Dutch for a time kept to themselves the whole revenues derived from these fisheries, but as they held them by no deed and by no cession, they might be said to have held them so long only as they could keep them. Voluminous evidence was collected to prove that the native rulers - the Nayak of Madura and the Nawab 0f the Carnatic had never relinquished their claims to these fisheries and the dispute had been referred to Europe for settlement when, in 1825, the annexation of all Dutch settlements in India rendered it unnecessary to further debate this contention since 1825 and indeed since 1801, when the Carnatic was ceded finally to the British, the Madras Government have exercised absolute and undivided control of both the pearl and chank fisheries off the Tinnevelly coast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.