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Rh the curriculum of instruction was extended, and the Survey School gradually merged into the Civil Engineering College.

As at first established, the College had for its object the training of men as Subordinates only, i. e., Overseers and Sub-Overseers in the Department of Public Works. But in 1861, a special Class for Drawing and Estimating was formed; and in March 1862, a First Department was established, for the purpose of training Military Officers and Matriculated Students of the University ofMadras for the position of Assistant Engineers. In December 1862, an Officers' Surveying Class was attached to the College. So that the Civil Engineering College now consists of a First Department- Officers' Surveying Class - Second Department — Special Survey and Drawing Class.

With an educational Staff of — Principal - Two Assistant Masters for Mathematics — Three Assistant Masters for Surveying, Drawing, and Estimating - Two Assistant Masters for Vernacular Language.

The number of Students has risen from 46 to 103 at close of past Session.

The Course of Instruction, which is similar to that of the Thomason College, extends to about two years, and the average annual out-turn is - Five in First Department — Twenty in Second Department - Fifteen in Draughtsmen, Surveyors, and Estimators.

The building was formerly the Palace of the Nawab of the Carnatic, and though rather an imposing edifice, is not well adapted for a College, as so much space is taken up by the large open courts in the centre of the building.

Captain Winscom, R. E., who was Superintendent of the Government Survey School, was the First Principal of the College.

He was succeeded by Capt. (now Lieut.-Col.) Carpendale, R. E ., in 1860, and in November 1863, Capt. Edgcome, R. E., was appointed Principal, and now retains the appointment.

There is also a Civil Engineering School at Poona, in the Bombay Presidency, which hitherto has been employed in training Native and European Subordinates only, but is now to be expanded