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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=PJAIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA5-PA1 1864-1865 Report] Google Books. This report is in the middle of a volume of reports relating to the Civil Asylums.
*In June 1865, the Gun Carriage Manufactory at Madras was made available for the instruction of the pupils of the MMOA, and other similar Educational establishments, in trades and the use of machinery, the number under instruction being limited, experimentally, to twenty. [http://books.google.com/books?id=vUQbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA89 Google Books]
*Amalgamation with the Lawrence Asylum was considered from 1860.In April 1864 the land at Lovedale was selected for the combined institutions and new buildings were constructed. 220 boys from the MMMOA moved in September 1871 [http://books.google.com/books?id=luXS-8vTrJQC&pg=PA262 Limited View Google Books] ''The boys were transferred Nilgiris,Volume 1 of Madras district gazetteers'' by W Francis 1994 reprint of an earlier book, probably 1908*Another mention of the transfer to the Lawrence Military Asylum, Lovedale in September 1871 [http://books.google.com/books?id=PJAIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA11-PA13 Google Books]
==Madras Military Female Orphan Asylum==
