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concluded=in the Delhi District. The village state-
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2. The circumstances under which I was

appointed to the charge of the Delhi Settlement
are known to Government and they indicate the
conditions under which I had to work in completing
it. I feel sure that. in estimating r the character of
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the work now reported on His Honor the Lieute-

nant-Governor will remember these circumstances.
I wish I could feel as confident that L ha a made
the best use of them possible. As to he report
itself, I had little or no time for it-till very latelY--
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-of the S ttioment was carried on at

high pressure-and was enough to keep most hours.
of the day fully employed. However, I have treat-
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I should have dearly liked.. to linger, to elaborate
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push on trying to secure essentials but not minding
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record and assessment are I think these .

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(7).-Enjoyment of owners rate by Ja 'aoir tars ,
an aafidars.
(8).-Entries in records as to levy of cesses on
C. L. TIIPPER, FsQoiae,
owner's rate.
Offg.. Secretary to
9.-Entries in records as to Government
right of revising the assessment of canal SIR, . .
a quin q uenniallY
villages quinquenniallY.
. I am directed to submit for the orders of Government the final

(1O).-The credit of revenue due in chak J'hil to report on the settlemen ,of .the Delhi district written b Mr.:
the canal department. Maconachie, late Settle rit Officex, and also the review of there rt
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submitted by. the Commissioner
s- of Delhi' Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon
Young, with his letter No. 2890, of 12th December 1882. Lieutenant-
Sii Colonel Young has submitted so able and eglianstive a review,
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pTinted report ( Para. 9 section 9) It will be a great pity if

owing to insufficient Dross drainage the A a canal is allowed to
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Chapter II.; on the spontaneous Produce of the district, ' nay also be
passed over with a few remarks. The Settlemen s Officer (Pages"21, 22,
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sections 1 and 5 and Commissioner Pra. 14) are both in error
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in noting chalk as one of th proucsesrci
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the neighbourin istricts which wero at the same time under s Clement N
2 of section 16 of the Land Revom Act. Every effort should be made
and by the re ' enue deduced from the p rod upe estimates as revised by
to make the re ord of g correct, bbut facilities for discrediting it ,
the Financial o missioner, then the Commissioner of,Delhi. The
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should not be created. existing assess. nt was light only in the Ballab g arh to hs iil and in the
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y. gated from the canal have not been assessed as the Y would have been The measurements showed an increase of cultivation amounting to a
under. the former system, at irrigated rates , but have been treated as little over 9 per
p cent. in the whole district but of this increase some may o)
ted and have been asaessed at' what are called " dry "rates.
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nm be due to more accurate curve and some has occurred in inferior soil,
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These "dr "rates however, represent rather the rates which could be
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Moreover, as a set-off against
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fairly imposed on such of the canal ads of an estate as temporarily remembered that a considerable amount of land watered by the
ceased to take canal water--all the other advantages accruing to such damns Cana1 has deteriorated from over- c r oppinga or water-log ' and gg
lands from the presence of the canal remaining unimpaired-than l the from the efflorescence of rah, It has followed that the result
of the
rates which could be levied on the lands if the canal irrigation were
- re-assessment has not been to secure any material increase
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Government revenue ' the increase as shorn on page 244 of
the report,
a it will be necessary to carefull watch those villages,
from any villages, includin g the income from owner' s rate at the estimate aheady
noticed, 4
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especially if they are among the estates named by the Settlement . and the 'ama on.villages held under direct lease is onl Rs. 4
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Officer in his para. 264 as assessed at- more than a true dry rates little over 5 per cent. on the former revenue. The total
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incidence
. 15. The canal irrigated lands having been thus treated as unirri- as stated in A ppend' Xg, is per acre _
Rs. A. P.
gated, the Canal Department collects on the area annually irrigated the In tahsil Delhi ... ...
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"owner's rate" authorized by section 37 ofJ the Canal Act ( VIII. of Ballabgarh .,, ... 1 6 11
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1.873); and the proceeds of this rate, which for the present has been ,. SoneP at . ... .. ... 1 12 9
. whole district
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fixed at one-half the occupiers rate, have been ruled to be not land The Commissioner states that the revenue has been
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16. This transfer of income from the Revenue to the Canal It appears probable tthat these tomplaints were induced by the
revision
Department must of course be kept in view when comparing the land operations in Gurgao t the Commissioner points out that as this is a
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revenue now assessed with that due under the former settlement ; and
for.the Purposes of this comparison the income from owners rate be
tract mainly dependent upon rain for success of its
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taken as Rs.1,22,622, beinga half the average missioner agreea-in this remark, -and would rnvite-the
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years preceding the re-settlement. Macon achie s obaer-
vations in aras. 238 and 239 of his report. '
17. The materials available for deducing revenue rates from rent
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rates were but scanty and less use than might have been possible was \# it may be .
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remarked that orders have been passed to allow a
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made of these materials ; the basis of .the assessments is according1y to
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of the Canal Department for owner's rate
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be found maimy in the judgment of the Sett1a m eat 0fficer.fore d during
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wa8the diminution of the over-irrigatipn, for some time a jil and 1882 ; in 1882 the dema d fell more
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thzt under the- old of assessment the people were not free average o.f the past 1,22,622.) -. .
to refuse the water, they were bound to grow irrigated crops in 20. ••. too soon to judge as yet other
7rder to pay their assessment; and- it was hoped that under the new are nee4'ed remedy the evils of ; but the question is •
system they would themselves reduce their And the first one which
• engage the attention of the local officers and be
result of the introduction of the owner's a very great noticed by them in their annual reveBue reports.
decline in irrigated area. But the people found by experience
/ Ac in para. 250A. of the report, a few on
that the of canal water it inability to grow their
"the Najafgarh jhil were to the system of fluctm4ing ass sa
most profitable -crops, such-as sugar-cane and rice, and a reaction very
ment adopted in the adjoining villages of Gurgaon. In Uurgaon it was
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ruled that the collected from the jhil should be credited

ing and the opinion of the the change of system
Canal Department, in
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will have nO the at any rate of the more
of the lands -was due to the drainage conducted
7 valuable khaØf crops, althoiIgh there may be less willingness to
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water for valuable rabi crops.
be followed here, and for orders on. the point. Colonel
I 'The following figures showing the demand on account of occupier's
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rates have been extracted from the reports of the Irrigation Department; No. 751, of 9th August 1880, read in connection with 6 of •
- the on account of owner's rate is half the demand on account of this office No. 181S.C., of 9th Octobei 1879, and para. 19 of Coin.'
- occupier's the owner's rate system was introduced into the Sonepat missioner of memo. on the rate report for talisil
tahsil in the kharif of 1879, and into the Delhi tahsIl in the rabi of are already sufficieiit— sanction to proposal ; but as there appears
1880:— to be on the subject lie recommends that these ordéra
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Rs. A.P. Ils. A. P. Es. A. P. question of assessment of nazul lands held by the Municipal Committee.
39,011 13 9, 1,10,660 15 9 1,49,672 13 6 The question was
1874 Mr. Lyall as Financial Commissioner, and
1875 84,551 10 3 1,26,924 9 3 2,11,476 3 6 he held the lands must be assessed in the usual way, and that if it
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44,244 1,42,527 2 8 1,86,772 0 1 Were desired to confer upon the Municipal Committee the revenue
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1,58,888 12 3 2,21,943 14 6
assessed on these lands, as distinguished from the rent, a special refer-
1877 2
ence to G-overnmeut would be necessary. The Commissioner has nofr yet
1878 1,08,859 46 1,58,868 6 8 2,67,727 1]. 2
reported in reply to this letter, but he has been again Mdressed.
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1879 1,00,539 10 6 1,54,562 3 10 2,55,101 14 4

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1S82 - - 44,403. 14 6 1,35,583 8 - 0 , .1,79,987 - 6 -6 of those- - villages which, owing to- swampingand bad
drainage, were now -at less than a true dry A'.list
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thefall term of thirty years. The Government sanction to the assessments
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nine it as the Sett ent Officer has done, notwithstanding ertain
grders should be egA lamed to the people and a reporton the villages
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theoretical objections may be urged against the system. Inthis office
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observing moderation in assessing
mends them to the notice of the Deputy Comm inner. l
and the existence of his power seems sufficient to check any grave
abuse of the « all-round » mode of assessing estates. ,
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sent-Rabi 15th May and 15th June, Kharif 15th November and 15th
shown on page 240 as 937, amounting in value to Rs. 53,189 per annum.
December, The whole question of the maintenance or revision of exist-
The mafi work thrown on the Settlement Officer was accordingly some-
O what hex ,but the sub]ct requires no further notice here. Under ing dates throughout the province is at present under consideration,
and a rePor1 is awaited from the Commissioner of Se ttleme n is and
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Book Circular of 1882, the revend e assignees of 3,257 acres receive the Agri'culture.
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re al 1 but the lambardari and paiwari cesses the difficulty s u ' t mi ht be noticed in the final report Mr. Ma,conachie, in his
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has been settled by Act gX. oof 1883, and as. regards these, the point
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ai must be considered in c o nection with the new Land revenue Act, or
w with the ProPosed revised edition of the Canal Act. In sending up the ' to the levy of the cess'at p cent. in Ballabgarh
a 4' per a , and 4-4 per cent., in
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a The Patwaris have been graded and irdawars were- aPPointed at
27. The sub'eet of the distribution of the assessment over the
various holdings is noticed in para. 278 of the Settlement Officer's settlement but these will be superseded by kanungos when the reorga-
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AeoPle_at mounted. The question of the construction and maintenance of patwaris'
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the people to vote struction and extraordinary repairs of such houses should be charged
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2. The report was printed before its submission tQ
Explains me for review, under sanction of the Financial Commie.
delay in sub-
mission. sinner. It was said to be forwarded with a manuscript
letter from the Settlement Officer No. 293, dated 18th
o `December 1880; b,t in point of fact this was only the date
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time acting as Settlement Secretary to -the Financial
CD Commissioner, and under the circumstances, it was no
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doubt wise to surrender the natural desire he felt to dwell
on, and elaborate further, certain p onions in which he felt
v a keen interest; and confine himself to essentials. But
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the ability and sagacity of the author, and the sympathy
with the people, for which Mr.-Maconachie is conspicuous..
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The remarkable but- e1-established fact in this
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pattidari villages main into three sets, so as to, show how Lt,-Will only and neighbouring. , s tri cts is noted in P 80, that .in
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several p1oprieto1 , and in this way he shows that the this state of things can pi; evail much 1onger, now that in
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share is recognised throughout, is to be found in 189 villagec, we have an active and increasing bar at hand to explain
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a bhaischara tene within the primary pattidari division the bearing of Act XXVIII. of 1868 on the
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as much importance, and requires recognition to the same
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extent as the primary relations betweenn' the several paths ;
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and unless this is understood, partition of village common , Bhon « 31. , The tenures described .in para. 82 as that of
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commanitY in needless litigation. res. Jalandhar Doab other 111s of the Punjab, where
26. At the time Mr. Maconachie penned his 78th terpretat Erroneonsin- they are called, what they are in fact, zami,tdars' mafis.
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para., an idea , long since corrected by the Chief Court, of N. W. P. They given for " P ieJao" services (or "chabils, " as they
was prevalent that, under N. W. P. law, occupancy rights Saar Board's
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accrued from 12 years possession prior to annexation of Circular 17 of for providing travellers wi drinl n b ter, loo '
the Delhi district to this p This view was soon
province.
takiY as, temples, dharms' s an
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egladed Wood-pre.
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1856 of the Sadr Board of Revenue N. W. P., which
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had been relied on as giving occupancy rights merely by both here and in Gurbgaon and it is sierelY to be hoped
reason of 12 years' continuous possession, when properly
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that the superstition which has led to their being regarded
construed gave no such Perinanent right of occupancy ; as sacred hitherto, may not in these utilitarian days come
that it merely protected a cultivator , who had had to be regarded as old-fashioned , and that thus the thirst
possession continuously from sujnmar.! eJectment by the y
which after settlement usual)Y sets in for partition of com-
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title to occupancy rights to be determined by the ordinary
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generally, or in the particular villabge or circle of villages,
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33. The statistics of PoPulation given in Chapter VI.

of the report are those of the census of 1868. As the census
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provisions of the enancy ,.

of giving the later figures.
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34. figures give tho whole 1 op ulati on of
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district as 643,515 instead of 621675 as given in the
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.all those who could prove uninterrupted report and for the city and suburbs of Delhi 173,393
73,493 in-
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of 15,417, showing an increase in the district with-
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h from 12 years prior to annexation
,
of this province R
,
in the last 12 Years of 21,840 souls or 3'50 per cent: if the
as entitled to a right of occupancy in their ho1dings. .
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of PopulatioiI -
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I do not
Ic be trusted. It is ) C0n8u8 8ta-
notan- 0
36.
as i-they
elaborate analysis of,
receive full attention in
the
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matter. ped pçr-

cultivated acre The extent of held by
m y come 0 er froth neighbpurmg
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of
4. ,• Pagas. ... ' .
,, 39,338 ,,
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•0• •••?' 31,744 ,, 35,927
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Gorwalis
0
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17,698
14,839 u__I
p ( The other tribes, none of themAold area.

The Hindus a body hold and pay
'Es. 7,34,154, and the Muhapimadans 98,104 'acres and pay
0
( Rs. 1,02,864. In addition to these -tribes Christians are
I -
... 260,046
(Males .
as holding 38,690 and payingRs. 27,726. - -
... K
f
- -- - - -
... / I have that the Qioverurn.ent of India is . -
intended) to be described under this nomenclature. !

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0
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History of 37. The remainder of the chapter treats of the found-
::
0 0
- ::: 71,892
0
emales ::: - ::: seine of the ing and. history of the various towns in the disri
Mnhamnuidans .
'a
towns of the of
a -
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(Males
Total ...
...
. •. .
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. ..
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. .
•••
.
847
district. which the principal are Ballabgarh, Sonepat, and Fand-
abád, though Mr. Maconachie has particulathed many
• •••
r. . 123 more which are hardly more than large villages. The
Females • • •
account of the Jat -zamiudárs, who founded Ballabgarh

0 • •
• . •
Sikbs ... 0 0 0
970 and subsequently attained to the dignity of Raja, holding

(Total ... ." 000 ••• •••
:
•1-;
—
0
5,188 pargana in virtue of the office of Foujdár of

(Males ••. ..• •.• •" ". the envirOns of Delhi and Killadar of the fort of Ballab-
-.4 -
Females • .. • • •
0 0 • • • 0 • • •
Others • .. 0 *0 garh, is of much interest. The last Nahar Singh,

Q — 9,383
( Total • .. • . . .•
0 •• •
-0•••
• ••
implicated in the Mutimies of 1857 and. the
••• 1,276 State being confiscated. The dowager Itaui of
Area in square miles . . . . . • • •
. .
7Q1 has transferred her rights in the mahal of Ballabgarh,
•
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0
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Number of villages or townships
0•0
. ... . .
— Number of euclosures . . . . . ...

•..
- •
•.. 118,983 re-acquired by purchase from the the Raja
Number of houses . . .. . . . a... . •
of Faridkot and his wife, her daughter.
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.
— Total population . .. . . . •. . • • •
50431
— —
per square mile •..
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Villages or townships per square

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0
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a
PersonS per Village or township
•
... •
•... 91799
•w Enclosures per square mile ...
...
P&sons per enclosure . . .
U Rouses per s9uare mile . . . ç• •• ••• 541
0
F:
per house . . ... •
0
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24 SETTLEMENT REPORT OF THE Y DELHI DISTRICT.

ter XL
The Assessme t. ChPa Chapter $L,] ` The Assessment.

ute lapse from time to time , small increments will fall The revenue is payable in four instalments, two
87.
in. A detail of these assignrnents will be found on for the spring and two for the autumn harvest, which
page 240. range between half and half and four annES and twelve
annas, according b to the circumstances of th e case. An
83. The incidence of the land revenue proper and inquiry was lately directed , under Financial Commissioner's
including owners rate, respectively, in each tahsil is as .
orders, in order to ascertain if the date fixed for the first
follows :- owner's rate.
Land revenue proper. Including rabi ins lment viz. 15th May, was felt to be too early.
Bs. A. Y. Its. A. P. The ans er from all districts of the division was that
Ballabgarh ... 1 7 0 1 8 0 this was of felt to be the case.
0 114 0
IlOHLIM
Delhi ... ... 1 9

Sonepat ... ... 1 13 0 3 0 - 88. The system
.
on which the rabi investigations
.
- :
.
The cesses imposed are the ordinarY ones : they
84. were made has been fully noticed in para. 266 et seq. The
c;
1-d
amount to Rs. 19-13-4 per cent., Rs. 20-1-4, and Rs. 20-5-4 results are given in the. abstract on page 240, from. which
in ta1shsi Sone p of , Delhi and Ballabgarh, respectively, the I extract the following information ;-
o
difference being a due t9 four annas more having been im-
posed in Delhi and eight , , annas more
in Ballabgarh than in There are 939 such grants in all : of these
Sonepat for the patwaris cess. No orders have. yet been 298 are lands assessable at less than $s. 5
received as to whether cesses are to be paid on the 210 at between Bs. 5 and Rs. 10
owners ' rate or not but they arebeing levied at present. 1sti » `...
... to ... ,. 20
o
- --
. .,
126 ,, » » 20 ... 50
were distributed mostly by the people
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85. The J'auras w . 36 ,, » ...

. 50 » 100
.. ,,X60
- themselves;-a the case of 556. villages out- of 810
themselves;and_in
-- -
42 aJo re
87 are of barren land not assessable at ,all.
were, made at one all-round rate. Mr. Maconac e hiriT
_CD
this to be ,on the whole a not inequitable mode of distribu- With reference to the remark in p ara. 266, that certain
Or
tion. I am not of this opinion.. As long as an assessment of, these cases have been reported for orders of Govern
.E
o
is paid without difficulty as being rea1JY light, and harvest's went, it is to be noted that these cases have now all
being good and plentiful, it will answer well enough; but been fir ally disposed of.
a)
,
the minute reverses come and the shoe begins to pinch, Progressive ,
89. In the case of ten villages of Ballab garh tahsil,
thos whose lands were really below the average are lamas, progressive have been allowed, and thg special con-
very quick to show the inequality of the arrangement and
-
.
siderations which prevailed with the cial Commissioner
to clamour for a re-adjustment. I think that in many and led to this being sanctioned are fully given. in para.
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cases the subordinate settlement officials use a certain
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237. The P rinciP le admitted would seen to be that where
WITHOUT ERMISSION OF THE

to vote for this
INDIA OF ICE LIBRARY & RECORDS
BE
amount of pressure to induce the peopto
s
,. there is a hope that the proprietors will be able to pay an
-
,
a)_°
all-round system of distribution, which saves them much
-
enhanced demand in time and approached by moderate
,.
trouble, and that the people give a very unintelligent stages, though unable to meet a largely enhanced demand
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consent in many cases. at once, such s stem is justifiable' and not otherwise.
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le ct ion
86. There is also t1iis very forcible objection to e to system of 90. In Government letter No. 767, dated 15th July
UCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY
system, that where, as is so often the case , the village bania all-round
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1881, to the address of the Secretary to the Financial

in time comes to hold all the best lands, either on mortgage rates. Commissioner, sP ecial allusion was made to the case
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or purchase, and only the poorest lands are left with the
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oney -lender payuch less for his lands

of certain canal villages which owing to swamping x
zainindars, and bad drainage, had been àssessed at comethang.
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than is right, and ten chaiices6 on the assessment on
.. ,
the poorer lands b reeks down. I therefore distrust and
lest than a true dr.y assessment , and His. Honor zo
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intimated that he considered. that such villa g es shoald ,
dislike these all-round rates save in exceptional cases.

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be liable to revision of assessment aftor five ears in the
. intelligent , system seems to me to distribute
The mot
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« kismwar, of on shares where these are well recognised.
interests of Government and desired that the number «3 I
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a)
requiring to be thus dealt with should be specially noticed

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DIELlT DIBTBIC .
sDTTLEMENT REPO$T of THE
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PERMISSION OF THE
in forwarding the final settlement report for orders.

Mr. Maconachie has given a list of 20 such villages, one in
Delhi and 19 in Sonepat ; and in taking the proprietors'
village,and
continued. to be taken, the rate recommended might be too
high. Such rate, however, is only taken in one villa
is declared b the Settlement Officer to be
y pe rfectl fair.
engagement, this aii angement ought to have been
.
Irrigation J 93. The extension of a system of irrigation from

provided. for : it however, appears to have been over- .from banda. band8 is a.sub]'ect that has been commended and brought
looked. Presumab1y the orders had not reached before to notice repeatedly. It was advocated in the report of
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the settlement mills were completed and handed over to Mr. John. Lawrence, written in 1844 and as indicated by
the district office The matter can, however, now be Mr. Maconachie, it is sad to see the remains of many
remedied, and the omission supplied, as the records have not magnificent works of this class 1Ymg in ruins in' the midst
ô.
yet been sanctioned. Authority to suPP1.Y the deficiency of lands only awaiting their repair to become doubly fertile.
is now solicited.. As noted in an early part of this report, the subject is one
which would well 'rePaY the attention of the . district
91. The case of certain canal villages has been
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committee. Something has been done, and the subject shall

noticed in para. 264, in which the assessment has been not be lost sight of.
made at mare than a true dry rate. The Settlement
4
Officer, however, has expressed the opinion that even if Transfers. 94. The table of transfers of land between 1861 .and
canal i ' tion is restricted or denied to such villages, 1874, b Y sale and bY mortgage respectively, and divide d
it is almost certain they would sink wells and be there- into two periods of seven y ears as given iit Appendices Nos.
o
fore very soonn in as good a position as ever : consequently XII. and XIII; exhibits some very remarkable features.
he does not make any present recommendation that under Between 1861 to 1867, it would appear that land sold
an - R .--10 Per annum oath
revision of the assessment , but contents himself with
,
speaking, at '8 Years purchase of the ]'ama ,' while on
N,P
Pd
giving the names of such villages that tdie district officer's mortgages Its. 9-10 per
P annum was raised at a PProximatel Y
attention may be sp ecially directed towards them, , and the same number of years purchase of the demand on: the .
leaving it to him to deal with sueh? cases on their merits mortgaged land. In the succeeding eriod of seven years,
oft-!
o
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when interference seems called for. I think this course from 1868 to 1874, the land sold brought an average of
is the best to pursue and that provided the distri t
Reference
R,
' 30 per annum# upwards of 23 Years purchase of the
d
officer keeps a careful eye on the estates indicated, and

.
revenue demand ; while on mortgages Rs. 29:. per annum
(
.
steps forward at once with proposals of relief
.
was borrowed, being twentY-nine times the demand on the

it lands thus transferred. These figures mark uninistakab1Y
IOR
the be the rapidly increasing value of land in the district, about'
app-p
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it ever arises. 200 per cent. The whole amount of money charged on
o
,

,. `, mortgages in the 14 years between 1861 and 1874 was
A OFFICE LIBRARY &RECORDS
92. In Government letter No. 751, dated 9th August '$ohi" Rs. 4 21000 or about half a year's revenue of the whole
w
and
1880 , and which deals with the Financial Commissioner's "Zer$fohi"' district ; and the area thus encumbered amounted to 419
p
reference forwarding the revenue rate report of the circles. of the cultivated area; while the area sold was 322 Per
Delhi tahsil, . it was remarked. that with reference to the
CIO
cent. of the same. The highest percentage i each case
d
_
. «. Kohi and Zer. Kohi" circles the .rates were on1Y P . Pro-
was in tahsil SoneP at, where it 8.3 on ort
visiona11y sanctioned, and subject to a ,.further report and 9.7 by sales. Except in the case of this tahsilgages the
mw.
> .
regarding the lands flooded by the Delhi and Gurgaon
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figures do not indicate any serious pressure of assessment,
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waterworks. The Lieutenant-Governor's remarks, as

. nor special agricultural calaniitY, though the period
indicated above, were called forth by areinark inthe review embraces the year 1868, which was one of famine or .at
.. report by the Additional. financial
r
. of the revenue rate, . least .of great scarcity and high Prites.
er, to the effect that if .the water rate of,
NHL iO
. .
Rs. 0-4-
-6--4 per acre,' levied by the Canal DePartiient when- 95. The apparent increase in the 1'ama of this tahsil ,
.s
. .
Garn
, .
waterworks were under that departinent, as lY settled, is 285 p er cent. including owner's rate,
1
the. . .. . ,
. .
BETTL$YENT REPORT Op THE

BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY DELHI
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F The Assessment. [Ohapter XL Chapter RI.] The Asaeesmenk

WITHOUT PERMISSI QN OF THE
0
o and is fully justified by the fact that cultivation has
increased in thiF tahsil by 117 Per cent. In point of fact
the pressure now is less than before. ...
...
E.
44,250
131
Total
$s.
57,4fl8
96. The Settlement Officer's estimate of owner's rate ofEstimate

a to be expected is Rs. 122,662, calculated at half the rate.
owner's
.. .. 38O5345
Z785
p
.., ... 51,99174153
abi ana of the last 10 years' average, but for varions
abi
2Z 16274,153
wU reasons, explained in para. 263, he thinks this estimate The system of charging separately for canal revenue
)I310
'
will not be realized at first, but that the new method of and owner's rate was only intr oduced for the first time
d
,
dur-
o assessment will lead to much less water beeng taken until ing the kharif 1879 and was not fully understood until
CD
the zammdars find they cannot do without it. I ]join with 1880, when the effect is very marked,
the Settlement Officer in the hope he that the The rabi harvest will be the one hkel to be
owlF
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longest
p+p
cases of men who renounce water at first will, when they
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Uoa}H affected by the change in system, as, if favorable rain
come forward again as suppliants for it, be generously the crops are to a greater extent independent of the falls'
dealt with. Since the Settlement Officer's report was than the sugar-cane and rice crops which demand it canal
rendered, I have reported in my No. 1773, dated Working of or fail.
It was decided after much discussion that the owner s
.
21st Ju1y 1882, on the working of the owner's rate the system
already rate should be taken at a fixed ratio of the occupiers rate,
system in this and the Karnal district. The rapid re-
p
_
ported. and not at rates differing to sui t the varying circumatanc
O falling off in the area irrigated from the Western of different villages and half the occupier's rate es
dmmna canal during the first year after the intro- been already fixed as a suitable ratio in the case having
5
duction of the system and which was fully expected, PaniA at and Karnai tabs'lls, the same proportion wasof the
`
onl lasted for one year. The quickly .a pPre-
hendedthattheycould not do without taking the water,
on for this district for it was found, as lately noted fixed
in the
tam
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J . ofde Roh .
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and. I have no doubt that mere or no appreci- .

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Governor, that one-half was the nearest sun le fraction
_. able diminution in the canal revenue in the course of a the occupiers rate whit h would representpthe dill of
?, year or two, and that Mr. 1a.eonachie's estimate of the erence
V
1 Y between the wet and dry assessment of canal villages.

owner's rate will be speedily realized to the full: The more
.
a
- valuable crops, especially sugar-cane which is daily becom- tinder the rules sanctioned by Government the
_a
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a,
a
- ing a more popular crop, and to which the introduction of
the improved sugar mills from Bihia has lent an important
stimulus, cannot be grown without water, and the area
assignees of 3,25 acres will receive the owner's rate
7.
lands having been irrigated before the re lar settlement,

and they having a heretofore enjoyed the full irrigated.
their
Ref
rate.
.
O under this crop shows a tendency to ,
increase year by year.
H 98. Fort -four zaildars were appointed with an'avers
Under these circumstances, but little can be expected, in
I
. ,
WITHOUT
INDIA
BE REPRO
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age and over-irrigation, from roam of Rs. 193 each, which is deducted from ' . g e
the direction of curingb swamAa the ama'
LIBRARY & RECORDS
and with reference to Government letter No. 751,

the zamm dars themselves. The best cure for the former 9th .A.ugust 1880, I may remark that these allowanceof the
will be found in the drainage a project in conjunction with s are
the re-alignmeut of the new branch. For the latter, I
bona fide reductions Irem am -assessed .in dentl
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a know of no remedy but the development of scientific a '-

of the cess an d that the amount was not, as in
Rohtak
COI
h allowed as a drarwback, '
first added to the ]'ama and ten
,.
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ccultural knowledge-a$ Yet, I fear, far off.

In selecting the zaildrs, due ..regard was had to the
.
Figures for
97. The subjoined figures, giving the demand for past three instructions of Government to connect these
' rate for the three years since settlement, illustrate years prove men with the tribes clans and other local re pres enta tive
-
owners
forcibly what I have stated above, and show how quickly what was consistent with a proper distribution of tees so far as
hasbeen
matters are recovering themselves, and that, the demand
M advanced. circles. -
The appointments made w ere, I think

for water will raPidlY attain its normal dimensions',-
.
judicious and themen are useful though on the whole,

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U ;.
INDIA OFFIC
N other matters of district adminietratlon here, as in most

0 it rats with the
1
H
8ETTLEIIENT EEPOET OF THE
. ,DELHI DI8TEICT. ,
31

.
0 0 ChaPtier %Y. } Th e gesessmenl

F U
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O. F DeAnY t Commissioner to bring out the good qualities and Government, were submitted with my No. 243, dated 7th
x co fully develop the use of these person they should not be
.
February 1881, together with proposals f or dealing with
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allowed to deteriorate into the mere hacks of the deputy
...
each estate. I advocate their being disposed of as soon as
Hz
00 inspector of the nearest thana though their services in possible, or, if retained that,a competent official be specially
4-
xHaa the suppression and detection of crime should, of course,
a appointed to look after them. The subject is dealt with
o
ainN be freely used: in paras. 313, to 318 in the report, ' cl duig what is-known
w as " taiul," or what was formerly the private property of
-.99. Ala lambardars were appointed in all villages in
P.
h+4
a U the King.
wH
. which there. were three headmen andare Aaid,like the
.
aw zaildars by a deduction of one per cent, from the 'ama., Bnbjects 103.. In the Settlement Officer's coveringletter submit-
C7
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Paras. 307 and 308, and the statement at page 69, give requiring ting the report, mention is made of ten several subjects c
xH full information regarding these appointments. orders.
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on which the special orders of Governmen tare required.
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100. The Settlement Officer has explained .fully the These subjects
J have since mostly b een disposed of :final
orders have been A assed in the case of Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5 -6 and
system on which the Aatwaris were appointed and how
they are paid. The scheme a pp ears a careful one : it was 7. TheY are still required in th o caseof No. 3 Treatment,
worked out and fully reported on in a separate reference,
, . of Government p rop ert y), No. 8 (Levy of cesses on owners
and has been duly sanctioned. There are 224 patwaris rate), No. 9 ( Provision for revising the asses sment of cer-
with graded rates of pay ranging from Rs. 10 toRs. 14. tain canal villag es q umuennially)
q , No. 10 Credit of reve-
nee of chak j'hil to the Canal De partm ent). f
O 101. On an average all through the district each
' Aatwi ri is responsible for 2,318 acres comprising something Believes the 104. I believe the settlement will work well, subject
-
$s i
less than 5;000 fields, and has to do_ with the collecti
5 ef-nnue:iese res point to compact
settlement -to-thE-One
will
well.
flautonar
work anent Officer's report and Yin this
,
.
red in
review. Ihave- eve
- -
SttTe.
confidence in thinking the assessment ivj11 be paid without
.
e
!
Q circles, which should be well within the capacity of every
p atwari to inspect thoroughl Y every year, the record being di1icu1,
tY 'and recommend its sanctaon or a peruxl of 30
.
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_. maintained with regularity and precision. To ensure this years from the rabi harvest of 1880 A.,. in the
?, 1 important work being thoroughly done, eight girdawars, on
.
case of the 20 villages of which the demand is subject to
a salary of Rs. 20 each per mensem paid from savingsfrom revision after five years.
Reference
U the patwari's cess, have been appointed in addition to the

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105. I have. alread y commended the report as an
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v existing staff of one kanungo and one assistant in each
o°-
'_ excellent one, and Mr. Maconachie deserves all credit for
tahsil. With a fairly efficient staff of patwaris to start with, the evergyp diligence, and skill which he brought to bear
w a the Deputy Commissioner will have little excuse if he
Jo
.
O on the work of settlement at a time w1jii it was much in

fails to keep himself thoroughly posted in the condition of
WITHOUT PE
a N
INDIA OFFI
BE REPRODU
arrears, and there were a good many difficulties to be en-
every villag ein the district and preserve an accurate record
-
rA countered owing to the state of laxity and slack Hess of the

of changes. The degree of perfection to be looked for subordinate staff, begotten inpart, no doubt, by the protrac-
on the part of the patwaris has certainly not been attained. tion of the operations which had been permitted under
up to the present for last year's girdawari was very indiffe- Mr. Wood.
:v rent; but the. census work no doubt seriously disorganised , .., Mr. Maconacshie
- - -
brought the work to a con-
o the whole agency. 1n two years
&
from his a AA oiptment and has earn ed the thanks of the

1.02. The question of how best to deal with the Government. Government as well as the confidence and liking of the
Government property in the district is before the Finan- villagos. people.
cial Commissioner. Complete registers exhibiting the extent
.
106. Mr. Wood as I. have already stated, had more
Qr
M of the Government interests in all villages in which there entrusted ,to him at the outset than he could beexpected
-°o
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w are eo-AroPrieters with .Government, and all the necessary thorou hlY to fulfil. He was a painstaking and conscien-
-
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,:.. information .in .the, case .of whole villages the property of
N _
tious officer, p op ular with the eo le and with
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RECORDS
PERMISSION OF THE
Proceedings of the Hon'ble the Lientenant.Gavernor of the Punjab in the

e rience in settlement work. His villa e inspections were 1evenne
patient and thoroigh; but he lacked the faculty of control. apartment, No. 126, dated 'lard June 1885.
.
his subordinates, and did not get as much work out of READ-
them as was to bee cted. He was perhaps past the c
The FinaJ Report of the revised settlement of the land revenue
time of life when energy can be looked for to the same of the Delhi District, com p fled byy Mr. R. Macon achle and
degree as in a younger man ; but he has done much faith- submitted to Government under. cover of the letter of the
ful Work for which he deserves credit. Senior Secretary to the Financial Commissioner of .the
107. The work of Rai A'udhia Parshad has earned Punjab, No. 1157, dated 10th October 1884. _
the praises of the Settlement Officer, as has also that of REMARKS.-The Delhi District is bounded on the
Fakir Burhan+ud-din r and I concur in the praise he
bestows on each, as both are well known to me.
south b Gur eon on the west by
.
b Rohtak, o thee north
carnal and on the east byy the Jumna river. It contains an
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th b Y
108. Chandan Lal and Aziz-ud-din are also well Chaadab area of onlyy 1,258 square miles, and, With the e gcePtion of
spoken of by the Settlement Off cer but I have little ud-din,
.
LAr and Azis.
Super Simla is the smallest dis ict in the Punjab. Though in
-personal knowledge of these officers.
P oint of extent of cultivation it ranks only twentY -third in
intendente.
ti
109. In conclusion I must apologise for the undue point of population it ranks twelfth and in point of assessment c
1e h of this review, which, however, I have not seen of land revenue eighth while the incidence of rave nine per A
mY way to condensing o further.
fitlhteuna.
acre of cultivation viz. ',
s. 1-13-6, Plat,es the district in the
e1-
110. The village 0 note-books are in the same form veryrs
y Pjb
cass in
RR
Its as regards o
lation is due to the presence of the City of Delhi PP
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as those of Kernel and Gur on, which have, on more
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:; -w: t1ian one occasion, been before the Financial Commissioner, contains 173,000 inhabitants and itsProsPeritY, as indicated
and as they are very bulky and are constantly required
for reference,. I do not now resubmit them, but they can
bits
y cultivated area and assessments is owing largely rgelY to the
be.eent at a da s notice if required. natural advantagesb of its situation for trade,., and to a
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large area irrigated from wells and from the Western Jumna
Canal. The average rainfall is 23 inches and the area
protected byy irrigation
a am ounts to 37 Per cent. of the whole
area cultivated. Half of the Delhi District is therefore
fairly secure in the see se -of`the Resorution of the Government
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of India in the
. Revenue Department No 5 8 R. .of 12th Hon r.c
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October 1852.
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2. The district is less than 20 miles broad in most
parts, and as in the case of pearly all riverain tracts is North
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India , is divided rou ghly into two portions-the low khadir
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bnear 1[ie river, an the higher n gar lands b

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now removed from the influence of the floods of the Ju mna. cn

The district is further divided into two halves by the hills
resin g in the neighbourhood of the City of Delhi, and by the
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low-1 yin g Debar lands situated to the west of the lls round
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the Na'af aril Jhi'1. Much_. of the upper Bin ar is intersected x
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of which by Y the Western Jumn a Canal has been attended
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the march of progress in India has not been without its prietary
rieta fee over and above the revenue assessed
upon the
effect on these communities, the description is for most land. A change, however, is slowly taking
PurPores and intents as true now as it
was in 1844 :- respect, and the payment of rent in some formplace
in this
or another
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will doubtless become common during
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Bound together by the ties of blood, connection and, above all, g the next thirty years.
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common interest, like the bundle of sticks they are difficult to break.
Rents in kind are realized on 13 ,000 acres only,
Droughts may wither their crops, famine and disease may depopulate rate being one-third of the produce The reason the usual
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relation existing between landlords aand tenants why the
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their houses their fields may bedeserted for a time but whenIfthe
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storm blows over, if any survive, they are certain to return. an an unexpected backwardness in eneral daystopmast rots to
accident happen to any individual, he is assisted and befriended by
of the tenants belong largely to thegsame classes as the is that
his bhybund8, but above all the grand advantage, in my mind, of the soil and are often related to then b marriage owners
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this tenure over the is that the entire profits are their Y or have
the acquired the possession of their lands under
own and not that of a stranger. In the hands of the biswadar special
rent becomes capital, which directly or indirectly goes to improve his stances. A11 these causes of exemption are however, vireom-
disappear .as the land becomes more sub-divided heelY to
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property, or is available on future . a

occasio s while that of the zemin-
a . .
in
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o ulatio nu Po nit more in tense.

and the
often a mere revenue serving to support a position P ressure of pp
.
ri is too
the adjoining town to keep up idle servants, horses, a hants and holdin g of each ten ant is less than 3 acres The average
sawari. " area owned by each landlord is no the average
not stated by the Settlement
The area comprised in communal and other estates of Officer.
the district is nnot recorded by the Settlement and
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The annals of the past fiscal administration
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thestatement of tenures annexed to the Revenue Administra- district are given bY Mr. Maco nachie in Chapter of the
tion Report of the Punjab J'ab for 1883-84 follows a different IX of h'is
According Report. In common with that of the adjoining districts
ifi cation to that shown by r.
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to this statement 732,000 acres are, included in and earl Y revenue history oof ' the
is one of short and., severe
,
acres in settlements frequent breakdowns, and constant

bh achyra estates of a n imperfect type, and farmin g. It is stated bby Mr. Maconachie
recourse to
the 96 ze mfndari estates of. the district. The large number that
three summary settlements took place in the twopractically
of estates of the last class is accounted for byy Lord Lawrence tahsils between 18 17 and 1842-44, when the regular northern
.in the report above mentioned bY the. circumsta1iee. that
" in
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seat of Govern- ment was made. The Ballabobarh villages were for settle-
times from incinitY to the imAerial the most
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P art settled after 1857, when the estate of the R dJa was
mast parties were able to oust the apcient inhabitants and
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system of confis ted for treason. The Settlement Offic

appropriate their lands, partly from the r
his oA neon that the re gMar settlement was fair inhas recorded
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farming that has prevailed, and also from individuals occupy- of the Sone P at tohsil but ha proved hard in the ghadir
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in and ,. etthng lands which;. had from various circumstances owls g to the abuse of canal irrigation ,that inthe Ba,n gar
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been deserted. " In six villages of the district there are the Delhi
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tahsil the assessment was moderate ; an d that in the

su
_Perror as well as inferior proprietors. D etails of these garh _ahsil
a
Ballab-
t it was light. A reduction of Rs. 23,000
are giyen Y the e amen - Officer a pages 73-74 of the
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made between 1 844 and 1873 iti the _one at was

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Report. .
, sequence of the development of saline A
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gar con-
but elsewhe xe.tt. he alterations of the revsefflorescence shor )
5, of the total area under crops 65 Per cebt. is cultivated
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held
The area
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sue-roll have been
P cent. bY tenants.
t he owners and 35 per 1 unimportant. The Settlem ant Officer has not noticed
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w ith a right On
of occupancy is 57,000 acres. suspensions of revenue granted to the district as the
b tenants
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a .whole
the eater part of this area no real rent is paid, but only during the curr encyof the.regu1ar settlement.
the Government revenue and vessel. More than half the t
b tenants is held on these terms, one 9uarer
area cultivated by The general advance made b the district since
7.
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.1842
.being subject to loin P cash rents, called' chakauta, and less may
Y be summ sd up as foll ows.-Communecanons have been
an one-sixth to rent. in the aha e of PaYineont of a pro-
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improved to an extraordinary e$tent b the egten
.. Y aion of
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tahsfs and by assessment circles framed within the
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railway communication which has directly connected thegreat and it is therefore, tahsils,
b somewhat difficult to obtain a broad view
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market of Delhi with all the. rind al markets of India. In of the effect of his assessment upon the principal
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consequence prices have risen to a degree which it is not easy tracts or upon the district as a whole. The physical
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to estimate exactly, but vvhich'may be safely put down at Bangar au d
b tracts above noticed are persistent throughout the
from 25-3 5 per cent, and the danger b to the district from three tahsils and constitute the whole of the Sone
at tahsfl,
drought or famine has been greatly minimised The area To these assessment circles have been added w
the Balls rh
under cultivatiou has increased from 475,500 acres to 519,540 and Delhi a 1 a circle including the low_1Ying
acres, or by 9.23 Per cent., and though a falleng-off is shown irrigated bby the Sahibi floods and natural drainage lands
lines from
under the area irrigated, this is probably more apparent the hills and known as dahri or dab ar, 2 two
K o-hi Zer-Kohi ,which include the hill tractcircles named
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. than real. Population and cattle have also increased con- lying to the
siderablY in numbers , exact figures of the advance cannot be south-east of the City of Delhi and
give n owing to the circumstance that so many changes have
e . contains .the estates situate aniong the ruin
s of the d sit
occurred in the constitution of the district since the regular as
and suburbs of the im p erial city and fro>u their
settlement was made and the earliest censuses were taken. possessing unusual market facilities. As will Position
have. been
Between 1868 and 1861 the Population of the whole district
.
gathered from the brief account of, the tenancies of
increased by 3.50 Per cent. The people are on the whole the di,strict given above no sufficient data, of
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comfortable and free from debt, and the area sold and forthco iuin g to enable the Settlement Officer rental, we were
mortg ed has not been large. a According to the statement assessment upon the profits received b lapdlordsto found hie
Y , from their
prepared bY the Settlement Officer, the area sold between tenants. Produce estimates were therefore framed as
1861 and 1873 amounted to 322 Per cent. of the total area usual in the Punjab, to form the basis of the
wader . cultivation and the area mortgaged a to 4' 19 per cent.. .
Unfortunate1Y these were no
not PreA.ared with siifficient
Duringa same. Period sale aid mortgage prices rose ,b by care in the first instance, and they were ultimately
pa
nearly 200 Per cent.-a fact which of itself attests the rogress
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the Settlement Officers only. for the used by

of checking the
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made bby the district and the moderate standard of the revenue results of themethod; of assesam entPurpose
adopted by them. This
demand On the other. hand, it must be remembered that was practically to assume that the revenue
. xates, fixed at 1a 'st
much of the new cultivation has taken Place in poor soils settlement and which had since worked
satisfactorily on the
that same of the old cultivation has from over- whole were gen erallY.fair and to aPA1Y them
cropping, or still m ore .from over-watering that in some parts in cultivation and irrigation in each estate to the increase
the Pp o ula tion is almost too heavy for the land to support;. corrected in accordance with the to cal the results being
and that the margin left for extension of cultivation is much Settlement Officers and the past history ofknowledge
the estate:. The
of the
smaller thn before. This area is shown indeed as 136,069 t
a were then modified sh htlY with
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acres or
of reserved village is
per cent. of th3 whole but it consists largely `
lands which t ' most important
reference to the results as above ascertained
and by, comparison
with those adopted in the ad1,'o' in g .districts
Rohtak and Karna1 then under settlement, the rise of Gur g
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-that atthe resent settlement the standard of assessment had eing piss ca se o in p,ric es.
a e owering o
been redoced.from two-thirds to one-half' the net profits of assessme t . The want of a produce estimate e s n ar
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. derived from cultivation. ieliab1e data is to be regretted, as in its absence based upon
to apply any independent test to tha it i difficult
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The revised settlement was de irl accordance with
. . meat Officers but apart. from this, work of the Settle-
the instructions by which all recent in the Pun- Delhi is to all purposes and intents the plan f011owed in.
that whlh has been.
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have been re ted ..these by the Settle-
are qnoted b -
adopted inmost of the revised settlements of

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Officer at Par a
aP.h
191 of his Report. In the corresponds in the main with the syst em ut
the Punjab, and ,
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chater of the new assessment, Cha ter xI, Go veranent of India in the Resolution of the
forward by the
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taebnachre has dealt Pithhis so bJ'..eet fo the most art- by`
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floors Dep. art

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OFFICE
3 4 2 12 2 14
is is 16 18
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1 .6 1 8 16 18
0.14 4 14 o 12 08
Hangar.
Canal 34
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2 12
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2 12 2 15 2 12
Dakar 18 16 14 18
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1 6
Rausli 18 16 13 18 1 6
Bhur 0 14
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0 14 0 12 0 12 0 1.,
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well 30 30
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to
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2 12 3 0 2 12
28
Dahri
Dak:tr
Rausli
1 10
1 10
is
2 4 8
°2
18
'4
2
is
is
$ 2 0
16
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1 . 1 1 1 4
Bhur 0 10
o
0 18 0 12
The net result of the `revision of settlement as

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compared with the average revenue demand of the five years
preceding the commencement of the recent operations is in
each tahsf l as follows :-- - -- -- =
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WITHOUT
BE REPRODUCED
COPYRIGHT
NEW AssEssniExs.
Former average
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demand.
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Fixed
revenue. Owners' rate.
- -- -- -DaTarand raosli
Bhnr ...
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0 18 0 1£ Delhi
202,312
318,646
-_ 229,889
279,113 327,271
OF THE
`Trom this table it would aPPear that the proper revenerates
revenue rates ..
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Conepat 401,308 338,267. 412,771
for the northern tahafl of the Delhi District at least maY nowas
be considered as fairl settle and that such alterations the
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ma beca for hereafter w1U. dePend practically

P Y on Total 922,166 847,269 969,931.
The annexed staewent shows thattheatandard

use in prices. T
Progressive assessments were sanctioned in the case of ten a severe or
once during g -continued d' oughts. If these
Including the sum leviable as owners rate to
,
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villaa es only.
J conditions are duly observed there woui appear to be no
which reference will be made further on, the demand on reason why the prosperity of the Delhi District should one
account of land revenue in the Delhi District has been raised
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be at least as great
a under the new settlement as it was under
to 969,931, orbY 5.19 Per cent. according to
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from 922, > the old and Sir Charles Artchrson sracerely trusts that this
the report of the Settlement Officer. As a fact however, will prove to be the case.
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the average sum collected on account of owners rate during
the past four years has been only 1 Rs. 83,000, so that the 11. - At the first regular
a settlement of 'the dis rict. all
actual increase of revenue .due to the recent settlement has lands irr' ated by the Western J urnna Ca 1were assessed
l Rs. 8,000 Per annum. In view of the facts
so far been only at irrigated rates without regard to their.., dry aspect. At
stated in paragraph .7 above this increase can hardly be con- the present settlement it was determined to i mpese an owners'
'ered her than moderate though, having regard to the
. ' ,., rate under Sections 37-89 of
ern n m an and Drainage Act)., and to assess all
liabihtY of the un Pro
place which the district holds in point of inc idence of land lands in the first instance at unirriaated rates . In order to
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revenue among those in the Punjab, the Lieutenant-Gov- facilitate the collection. of the ovine t's rate and to r estrict
ernor s not disposed to consider that a much larger increase its realisation to lands actually irrigated each season, it was
could have been safer Y taken.. The decrease in income from further determined to make the owners' rate a simple fraction
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regretted, as it is of the occupiers .rate. It is unnecessary
the owners rate is not alto gether to be re ti Y in the P resent place
notorious that under the -oldsystem the people were often to the course of the correspondence which took place
e-
tempted to ruin their lands by over-irrigation. Since the on this subject in the Delhi Karnal and Rohtak Districts.
troduetion of the new assessmen the district has passed The outcome of the disco scion is summmaxised. in the letter
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as
through several Years of ,unfav urable seasons, and - one of the Punjab Government to the Financial Commies r onet"
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(1883-84) of almost actual drought. In consequence it has No. i 171 of 30th October 18 79 , and bby 1VTatificatioa No.
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been found. necessary to grant suspensions

. of .the land revenue,, 576, dated 25th June 1880, it was declared that until _
and the total sum .of which the c ollection has been deferred further orders an owners' rate should be assessed on the
to trme_hasbeen -_Rs 54 000. Of this sum K . 549- -dancl3-watered by the western Jumna at one-half of
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have been, remitted and Rs. 16,600 are still outstanding. the occupiers' rate leviable on such lands Provided 1 y that
The suspensions have been made, and the sums still due lands irrigated
b by wells and assessed at irrigated rates. shou1 d
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are owing almost entirely in the Delhi and Ballabgarh
,
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be exem Pted from P aYwent of the owners' rate and 2 that
WITHOUT PERMISSION
ls. Considering. the nature of the trial to which .. e such rate should not exceed the sure which might be assessed
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s ettlemeut has been subjected, the Lieutenant-Governor ' is

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on the land on. account of the increase in. the annual value
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disposed to con consider these results satisfactory showingb thereof caused byb canal irrigation.
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Well lands -assessea _ _at;
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that thegeneral itch of assewent ss is moderate and that we1 rates nd reoerving canal water were as far as Possib1e r
fi diibtd
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the revenue has been 1 Sub ' ect therefore rnarked off on the villagea mapsr and a book credit- has been
to the approval of the Government of India, His Honor is allowed to the Irrigation Department for the amount of the
P leased to sanction the assessment for a Period of 30 Years owners'-rate which would otherverse have been. due from them.
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from let Aril 1880, except as regards the 20 villa es The owners' rate itself has under the orders of the Govern-
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twent .
mentioned by y the Settlement Officer in paragraph 264 of his meat of India contained iin the Resolution of the Department
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Report, n which the dry assessment is. at Present below a of Finance and Commerce, No. 2141 of 18th Au st. 1 879, 1.
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true assessment. This sanction is accorded in the been in the public accounts as direct revenue ®f
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unirrigated
a estates on the same understanding a as that on irrigation works instead of as land revenuer Consrder.-
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which the Rohtak Settlement was approved, viz., that " the le P '
took Place on this subject between they
revenue assessed is .one which is to be paid in full in ordinary .Local and. SuP o.rnments
v r but in the end-the above:
I
Years, but which Government does not expect to realise
at
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orders remained unaltered. Rules for the ,I Y of the on account of owners' rate in the villages duringthe
'' owners' rate by Jgirdars were sanctioned bY the letter of
the Government ' 1 ndia in the Department of Revenue
. last siz years have been as follows :-
and Agriculture No. 228 of 27th May 1880. Under
these rules the revenue assignees of 3,257 acres receive the 1819-8?0 .. ...
owners' rate levied upon the lands of which the revenue is .1880-81 ... 6,61
by them, a bWok credit for an equivalent sum beinga
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en'oYed
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taken by the Irrigation Department. The question of the isnl-SZ ... 7,793
levy of cesses on the owners' rate proved to be one of con- 1858-83 ... 9,05
siderable difficulty. It will
11 be sufficient to note here that the 1883-84 - ... 18,134
levy of the road, school and post cess now included in the local 1884-85 ... 13,478
rate cess has been provided for under Act XX of.1883 , and
that it is ProPoaed to deal with the levy of the Patwari and ou app ear at t e cana irr tion of these
ram this i would
lambardari cess by amendment of the Canal Act of which g the last two years;
estates has increased by one-half during
the revision is now under consideration. and it may be hoped that this increase is due in the main
to im p in their condition.
Two further difficulties which arose in connection
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with the assessment of the owners' rate are noticed by the The secoed difficulty arose with regard to estates which
Settlement Officer at paragraph 264 of his Report. was were probably somewhat over-assessed in their .. purely dry
found in the case of certain estates which were badl affected
.
aspect. In the case of these it was decided that the fact
by.swamP and saline efiiorescence that, having rg'and to their .ghould be careful1y noted in the village .
, and that
capabilities as a whole and to the which they must if it should so haPPthat
en water were withdrawn "hereafter,
necessarily pay as owners' rate in order to obtain the water allowance, should if necessary be made in the dry assessment.
o which the cultivation. of their soi1 dePended, it was imP
on The Settlement Officer reports that there are only four vil--
sable to fix an adequate dry assessment for them. It was lages , all in the SonePat tahsil, .which fall- under the above
known however, that the condition of such estates was likely cl as s and it is not 1i k ely therefore that an
sa
any practical difficultY
to be imProved by the drainage a works which were about will arise with regard to this question in the Delhi District.,
to be undertaken by Government, and it was foreseen that
under these circumstances Government was liable to b cone With reference to the concluding remarks of paragraph
o63 of Mr. Maconachies ' Re Part, i t may be noticed that under
a considerable loser by fixing their assessment for the full,. X
term of 30 Y According1y orders were issued that these orders conveyed in the letter of the Punjab Government to
the Financial Commissioner, No. 1028 of 23rd October 1880,,
Years.
villag es should be called upon to engage for five years only,

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and underr these orders one vill a in the Delhi tahsil and the sudden withdrawal of water fro estates which have lon
nineteen in the Sone at tahsfl of which a list is given on en-joyed-irrigation is prohibited,. except with the previous
'e resent Report, have been allowed to engage
page 233 of the present sanction of the Local Government to be obtaine___ _
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for five years only, and their assessment is sanctioned by
b Financeal Concmissioner. The extent to which the area of .
the Lieutenant-Governor for this limited period. ganon has fluctuated during the past four years at
c anal irrigation
may be judged from the figures
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the will of the irrigators m

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.. Froma statemesnt Earnislied bY the DeP ut Commisr
` ioner of Delhi it appears hat the dry assessment of these
stated above in paragraphs 3 and 10.
e s is Rs. 21,214 according to the revenue rates Five villages lying on the borde rs af the NaJ'afgarh
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sanctioned by Government and that the assessment actually hil, and of which the lands are apt to safer from excessive
c 1 and been placed under a
s suh
.
ed b -S e
tleuaent -
0cer
is Rs 18,928. The floods have as reg
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neration of zaildars and gala larribardars forms a charge
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simple system of fluctuating assessment at the Present settle- against the Government revenue. Sir Charles Aitchisoa
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went. The rates levied are-
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trusts that the local officers will take full advantage of the
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Rs, fi Per acre on each crop of sugarcane

a which crea ion of this agency in the revenue and criminal adminis-
,
.
,
comes to maturity; tration of the district. The apprehensions with which the
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1-8 Per acre for melons andsPriteg J'owar appointment of zaildars was at one time regarded fortunately
proved to be as unfounded in Delhi as in the other districts
3 Per acre for other cro p s.
of the Province.
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This system has so far worked satisfactorily in the Delhi and
The special attention of the Deputy Commissioner
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Gurgeon Districts and the Lieutenant-Governor is now
accord his formal sanction to it. The revenue is invited to the weak- P oints in various estates of the Ballab-
garh tahsil noted by the Settlement Officer in paragraph 239
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derived from the lands P ace un er assessment
Gun of his RePort. Similar notes have doubtless been made in the
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shout following the orders already issued in the
case be credited to the Irrigation Department. An occu- vi age - s of the distric
With regard to the realisation of the revenue of u° ' 'ate
Piers' rate of 6 annas 445 Pie per acre is levied from one
.
lands in seasons of severe or prolonged drought, the Lieuten-
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village in the Dahri chak of the Delhi tahsf 1 as explained bY
ant-Governor deems it necessary to call attention once more
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the Settlement Officer in paragraph 49 of his Report.
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to the principles laid down in the Resolution of the Supreme
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Government, No, 58 R. of 12th October 1882, in the 'Depart-
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various estates and over the holdings inside estates, appears m eat of Revenue and A griculture on this subject, and to the
to have been carefully carried out. As already noticed the following remarks made in reviewing the Settlement Report
et-
great majority of estates preferred an all-round rater for the
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of the Rohtak,District which received the approval. of the
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distribution of their assessment and the Lieutenant-Governor Government of India :--

agrees with Colonel McMahon in considering a that in the case
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a In such seasons sus nsions will be freely given and it is. the
et.
a communities there is no objection to this
of strong village
duty of the District Officer to bear this in mind and to submit prompt
system if the people desire it. Most of the villages have proposals for the suspension of the demand when its immediate realisation
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elected to pay their revenue by equal i istalmen the would entail hardship on people afflicted with failure of crops. The
autumn andspring harvests a certain number situated chieflY point which the Lieutenant-Governor desires to impress upon the local
in the $hadir and Dahri tracts, preferring to pay is in the
° sPa
autumn and 1 in the ring. The dates fixed for the instal-
officers is that they should observe with vigilance the working of the
assessments of th unirrigated lauds in all seasons of scanty rainfall.
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any time the local officers may see reason to do sot they are at
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of 28th November 1883, ._ has been fixed for the Delhi District show d a variation of on1y .16 Per cent. from those of the .
at 5-6-8 Per cent. on the annual value or 10-13-4 per cent. on revetlu urve aiidthus result must be held to be satisfactorY.
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Honor observes that the Commissioner has stated that the
_--. disbursed re gularl Y therefrom as in the case of most districts
village note-books have been well prepared and are full of recently settled in the Punjab.. The charge of each atwari
useful and valuable information and he trusts tthat no pains a ppears to have been carefull y figed , an it may beP h oped
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t em uP to date. The value of these records when properly maintaining the record of rights up to date.
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aintained is very great, and all District Officers will in
future be held strictly responsible for their proper mainten-
ance. The Lieutenant-Governor will not discuss in this
place the desirability or otherwise of the temporary
servation of certain rough settlement papers to which the
Officiating
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Financial Commissioner has alluded in paragraph
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Settlement operations lasted from 1872 to 1880, or
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for._eight years. Mr. O. Wood held charge of the work
pre-
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the account of the village wood preserves to paragraph 38 of
the Report and he trust s that all possible enco ragement
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will be given to the eoPletto protect these areas.

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interesting to note that. the great success of the $ihm s ar-
,mill has had-a dccided-effect in -re-exte
g Financial Commissioner in
the coy. acted
.area of canal irrigation. His Honor agrees with the Offi-
i the opinion expressed in
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P ara g raAh 24 of his review regarding the assessment of newly-

from the commencement till the end of 1877, and Mr. formed alluvial lands. Instructions to this effect have recently
Maconachie from that date till coinPletion. The period
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been approved in the case of t he rules for the ass essment
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occupied was unusually long, and the cost of the settlement

has therefore been abnormallY great. The share of total
expenditure fa11i upon Government was Rs. 4,8 1,000, which
will be recovered from the enhanced revenue of the district
in a little more than ten Years if the est1 mate of receipts
from the owners' rate framed by .the Settlement Officer is
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Districts.
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of such 1ands on the SutleJ' in the Hos ' ur and Jullundur
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Enquiwi11 be made of the Irrigationn DePartine nt

whether it is nPt Possible to allow country traffic to make
rise of orie of the roads on the banks of the Western Jumna
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recovered for 60 The responsibility for the slow work

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and excessive cost rests Principally with Mr. Wood who has
now retired from the service. After Mr. Maconachie assumed
-be requested to report further regarding the want of bridges
&nd_ ferries on the Agra Canal to which the Settlement
Officer refers in paragraph 222.
charge operations were pushed on with great vigour, and 20. The orders issued by b the Financial Comm'sslon er
that o cer is entitled to much credit for the manner in which with regard to the treatment of nazul ' lands vide paragraph
he co Pleted the settlement. The expenditure entailed
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upon Government in the Present instance has been very are in accordance with the instructions laid down by the
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serious and the,. inconvenience caused to the people bY the
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heuena s Government of India in the Resolution of the Department
---of-Finance and Coruineroe, I11 .21 28 of 31st December 1879.
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error erefore The questions connected i th the treatment of the taiul
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be-sP property of Government and the lands oweed bby the State
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to obviate the necessity of any elaborate and formal revision L in the Ballabg arh tahsf1 are under separate consideration
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of it in future. With a view to strengthening the subor- and will receive separate orders where these have not aheadY
dinate revenue agency of the district, eight girdawars were issued.
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appointed by the Settlement Officer, and will now a consti- 21.The Lieutenant-Qovernor concurs with the Financial
tuted field kanun gos under the scheme which has recent) Y Commissioner and Commissioner of the ivrslon to the praise
received the sanction of the Secretary of State. The
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pay of the
the have bestowed uPon Mr. Maconac}u' e' s work as
which they
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ever and diligence with which that officer completed. the .
settlement after it was entrusted to him The report sub- No. 823 R:152.2, dated Calcutta, 9th December 1585.
. matted by Mr. Maconachie is interesting in itself, and shows Prom-E. C. Esq., c. e., Secy. to the Govt. of India, senne
v and Abaril. Depty
much knowledge of the people and sympathy with them: To-The Offg. Secretary to Government, Punjab.
The Lieutenant-Governor think, s however, that it is to be I AM directed
by the Government of India to acknow.
regretted that ,its merits should be lessened by the unnecessary
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ledga the receipt of the. Settlement Report of the district .of
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w it has run and by the want of arrangement in
Delhi the province of the Punjab, a copy of which, together
and revision in parts. On the subject ` of the great
b length
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with a roPY of the Resolution recorded on the subject by
of Final Settlement Reports a separate communiaLion will His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor, was transmitted under
be addressed t . of
cover of Mr. Fanshawe s letter No. 1270, dated the 23rd
r oud while Settlement Officer was doubtless performed dune
conscientiously, but the task of energetically controlling the .2.. The
settlement operations was aPParent1 Y beyond his powers ttlement was commenced under Mr. Wood
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His Honor regrets that an untimely death should have. made in 1872, and was completed by Mr. aconachie in 1880.
it impossible for him to acknowledge the services of the Extra The report was submitted to the 'over in manuscript
Assistant Settlement Officer, Munshi AJ'udhia Parshd. the in December of that year, but was not P rinttd till ebruarY
Punjab Government is under special obligations to Colonel 1882. The Commissioners review is dated the 12th Decem.
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Davies c.s.i. and LieutenantColone1 G. G. Yours g .bY
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ber 1882, and that of the Financial Commissioner the.lOth
whom the settlement operations were principally supervised October 1884.
. .and directed. 3. It is needless to eoinmeut on the delay J which the
to the
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Ordered that the above review be forwarded
v rnment of India in the Department of Reveive
above figures indicate. Whether regarded from the Point of.
view of cost to Government or protracted harassment to the
PeoP1eS it is aqwally to be regretted and as Qbserved in other
and Agriculture, with a recommendation that the settlement similar cases,. the period that has-elapsed since the settlement
April 1880.
be confirmed for 30 Years with effect from 1st AP
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-. was completed renders it impossible for the Government of

Also that it be communic ated to the Financial Commis- India to exercise . its legitimate power of control with any
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sloner for information and guidance,

' and to Mr. Maconachie prospect of useful ness. .
for information. 4. The review submitted by the Financial Commis-

sioner, moreover, is not so exhaustive as to justify the delaY
which occurred after the report left the Settlement Officer's
hands His Excellenty, in Council holds that one of the chief
,
objects of a review of a Settlement Officers proceedings ~

be to satisfy the Government that the Physical natural> and
meteorological conditions of t1e district justify not only the
rates imposed by the Settleme t Officer, but also the method
of assessment adoPted as well as to show the extent to which
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it is desirable to aPP1Y the theoretical rates to each . part of

the assessed area. In the present instance these requirements
are hardlY satisfied. In accordance with the above principles
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the character of the assessment and the method of collection

which it prescribes should be made to depend upon w close .
analysis of everY separate tract w ' is subject

J to varYing
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carefully examined from this point of view. In Sir Charles insisted that all District Officers are held-rea-pon$ibl
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Aitchison's final review its Presented in fact fl clearest picture for completing and maintain the yell ag a note-bo oks up to
given in the whole series of reports of the agricultural date. It is only by b a careful and g radual anal sis thus
character and position of the district and His Honor has effected through the continuo us examination and yhistorical
aceording1Y Placed wholesome restrictions upon the applica- record from year to year of the circumstances of every village
tion of the assessment. His Excellency in Council conceives and estate that a sound basis for the proper administration
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that such analysis of the assessment should have formed
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injunctions of His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor in the
15th P ar ra P h of the Arote edin gs of the Local Government
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are fullY approved and confirmed -and I am to conimunicato
-- 5. The final review by His Honor the Lieutenant- .
the wish of His Excellenc.n

_ i__ Council that during the course
Governor of the Punjab shows that while one-half of the _ _
ew Y ears an endeavour may be made to effect
' district is secure the other half will always call for careful such a classification of the various tracts as do iioja11 within
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and considerate treatment in seasons of prolonged and severe the category of secure areas as may enable the District and
drought, and that ever since 1860 the Delhi District has
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failures of the monsoon which however occasional are certain His ExcellencY in Co un cil is glad- to know that such rem ed es
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to recur sufficiently often to induce a considerable diminution as can be provided are in course of application. The. financeal
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of the normal outturn. His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor results of the settlement are unsatisfactory,and
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a urged that such a country requires excePtiorial confirm the views to which expression has been en vex to
treatment and the Government of India cannot insist too recent correspondence with the Punjab Government as to the
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village within the district and should not be left to be consi- condition of a district upon the basis of whit h a re-settlement
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dered till action is forced on the local officials at the time can be rapidly framed.
when the failure inaY actually occur. The determination of 8. The demand has been increased from Rs.9,12,166
' h may be ustified inaPPIya ina from year to
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to Rs. 9 69 931 includiin -- - --- ...u vva
year the fixed assessment bY the ett emen cer , r ' es is estimated at Rs. 122 Ei 62 while l;he
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one-third, it is not improbable that the anticipated increase

which cannot be expected from officers who have to acquire mayy not be realized, U nd er the most favourable conditions
this kiiowledge for the first time at the crisis when the neces- it will take ten years
ears to recover the.cost of settlement opera-
sitY for takinga action arises. The analysis should> in fact> be tions Rs. 4,81000 while if only the average collections of
the gradual outcome of the annual tours of district officials. the owners rate are maintained as the Punjab Governwent
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G. Under these circumstances, Yam to express the satis- seems to anticipate, the increase will be about Rs. 8 000
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faction of the Government of India that His Honor the year,
Y and the cost of operations will not be recovered ' for
Lieutenant-Governor has distinctly laid down the. same rule sixty years.
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I AM desired to acknowledge receipt of YOur letter

No, 823 of 9th December, 1885 which conveys the orders of
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District and with reference to. the 3rd and 4th Pte'raPhs ti
thereof I am directed to say that. the Lieutenant-Governor
entirely concurs with the views expressed by the Government
of India as to the rea ' e a _i_ion -e
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in ea Inwith- the final .reports of completed settlements.
During a
1. Delhi,
year or two strenuous efforts have been
made in the Punjab to secure this,hall
result
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3. Mozaffargarh,
4. Jhelum. noted settlements hav all been sub- A
5. Jhang.
6. Dera Ismail Khan.
mitted for the orders of the Imperial N ..
7. Bannu, Government. The only rePouts now
8. VPaziri Rupi and Gibe
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remaining for disposal are those of
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of these P PY The first two are Pending in this office
Promptly.
and are nearly ready for submission to the Government ,, of _. ,

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sion.
2. I am to take this opportunity to point out that in
the last two words of your letter under reP1Y five years
should be read instead of " twenty y ears. " 1 am to request HCb(
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that this error maY be rectified. H b

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No. 18, dated Lahore, 29th January 1886.

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Financial Commissionnr -Punjab --for_ iformtio-and-gi .
his le tter No 1157dated 10th b.

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- lI.-AGI4ICULTURAL PRODUCTS WITH

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Cn tr cu L-General aspect of the Distract ; atli some account of its drainage,
climate, and rain fall.
§ 1. Geographical position.
§ 2.. Length, breadth, and area,
§ 3. Boundaries,
§ 4. Striking features of the District, the Hills and the River. '
§ 5. The Dellhi Hills-the Gujar-his thieving-.- the Ridge'-(foot note)
Proverb on the Guar-Height of the Railway Bridge at Delhi.
§ 6. Two main divisions of the District North and South, the three
tracts in the North 1, K}thdar 2, Bfingar 3, Debar.
§ 7. Old bed of the Jamna-size of the river-its banks and bed-its
religious estimation-the course of the old bed described.
§ 8. South Division of the District- ( foot note ) Ballabgar
wrongly described in the `draft Gazetteer.
§ 9. Drainage of the Distrct-Southern drainage-The North Ballab.
garh Naddis. 1 Barahpul. 2 Tekhand. 3 Burhiya. South Ballabgarh
,
drainage. (1) Meola 1aharajpur ChanneL (2) The Parsaun NaddL (3)
The Badhkhal Ndla. (4) The Bhankri Channel. (5) The Bandhwan baj.
(6) P'ali Nadd1. (7) Pakal Naddt (8) The Naddf, (9) .The loot
NaddL Drainage East of the- Agra Canal,
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rai a North of the Hills, The Budhi N
ther Shadar Drainage Channels
.. Need of drainage in the
Khadar, the Grand Trunk Road as a drainage obstructor.
§ 12. Bad state of the as regards drainage. The Western
Jamna Canal as a drainage obstructor.
§ 13. The Drainage, six lines West of the Canal. These lines
patent to observation.
§ 14. Drainage lines East of the Canal,
§ ;15. Najafgarh JhiL
§ 16. Climate of the District. Weather fit for each season. Proverbs
about the Weather,
§ 17. Delhipil. Lord Mark Kerr's Peon
on its supposed disc
ance. M edica l deacription of the Sore [foot note].
§ 18. Health of Canal Villages. Enquiry iri 1847. .
' § 19. Later enquiry in 1867. Dr. Adam Taylor's Report,
§ 20. Alleged evil effects of Canal Water-impotency,

§ 21. Cholera and fever.
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§ 22. Rainfall seIarately for each crop,

§ 23. Years of scarcity or drought; poet-mutiny famines.
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CnArrsa IV. Irrigation, (1oeils, bands, and canals).

§ 1. Irrigation in Delhi District comparatively abundant.
§ 2. Number and kinds of we11s-Good soil for durability of wells
(foot note).
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§ 3. 1Jha1ar'-`Dh6uk1i'-1emarks on the `dhbnklf' (foot note).
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§ 4. Two modes of ng
' ' water, `charsa' and `harat'- Comparative
efficiency of these--Reasons determining the prevalence of one or of the
other. The `thetas' is balder for the men than the `harat'-this seen in
the muscles of charaa-working zamindars. Description of a good typical
well cultivation in a Jat village.. .
§ 5. Comparison of the `charsa' and `harat'-(continued)-Experi.
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menu of one hour's out-turn-How much water is required to water a given
area.
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Cleaning out welts.
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§ 7.
well-the sub-soils found in Sunipat. Mode
§ 8. Expense of sinking a
`nfmchak'-the `kothf'-the `dharan'-Old way of sink-
of operations-the
ing in the Bangar-the present practice of boring down in the centre-the
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`Bowani' spring level. wells, well divers and sinkers, Banger men,
Rates of pay-a lucky start is necessary-Old practice-of divining a good
place for a well-doubted by some-distribution of alms.
63 § 9. Distinctions drawn as to quality of water-Salt as a manure-.
Land affected by the saline qualities of its
.
66 § 10. Number of wells in each cbak. -
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67 Irrigation from `bands.'
§ 11.
GS § 12 List of bands -Sites for new bands.'
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§ 13. liiinor `bands' in South. Ballabgarh,- the Pugthalla ° band'-small
` band' at MandaUrf.
§ 14. NaJ'af h Jhfl-Histo19 of drainage schem Kishen La1's pro.

poaals, work carried out by Captain Durand, abstract of his report of 1838.
Proposals for Regulators and escape, present arrangements how far an outcome
of this. Captain Ashton Brandreth's Report of 1873, Settlement Officer's
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opinion thereon, new hopes of extension of drainage of the JbfI v iich wo14
be good, (foot note),
§ 15, Estimates of Financial Results of the drainage works.
§ 16. Canal Irrigation-The Agra Canal-The Western Jamna Canal-
antiquity-reeonatruction in the early days of our administration--clearness,.
d
Beginning of `shot' remissions-Remarks on the pro em-"Are canals
--da s`,ntus and.condition of the
quarrels (foot note).
r - good" s The `Reh' Committee at Aligarh in 1878, (foot bte).
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49 § 18, Abiana (water-rates)-Average irrigation-Owner's rate ow ed.
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§ 12. Manure. 50 CnAFTEE V. Tenure of Land. .
Wallows and rotation of crop. 51 § 1. Tenures of villages,

§ 13.
g 14~ ' the threshing-floor.
Carting gran, 52 § 2r F i then explanation of the divia oq;
g 15. Diodes of storing grain--animals
which attack it in the granary. 53 § 3. " ' dart `wahid' villages'-Titles of v minds rf ni1lages rec a tr
16. Agricultural implements-the carpenter and black-smith. 54
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§ 4. Superior pro of, -
§ 17. The importance of cattle
in the agricultural economy-proverb 5T
§ 5. Abstract of form B. showing analysis o rents;
foot note)-grazing and watering-statement of cattle in the Aietrict.
g ls. ¶he custom °
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§ 6. Occupancy
, right in the Delhi District-The 12 years' rule should Pare 78 b
not be held as binding-consequences of enforcing the rule,
§ 7. Tenants' ho varying in siwe and number In the different !, 79
tahatla-Occupancy tenan rarely pay in hind.
§ 8. Tenanta at will-` ta'--` zabti' rates--;foot note.)
bigheri'_' » SO
and tenant are slowly developing. Rent in
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kind generally of produce. Ìjara' near Sunipat.
' 9. Eztent of land cultivated by tenants-varying in different
parFe- !' 81
§
Jets nerallY cultivate themselves. Near Delhi the tenant cultivation is
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very e.
10. ' I)ohhdf<rs and bhondaddrs, extent of laud held by thew,
the !! 82
porch `dohli' and `bhondab, (foot note).
§ 11. Wood preserves
habited..
t of these.
The shade how held. Non-propnetore nighis over houses ,
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CHerTE $ VI,Statistics of ,
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towns.
Population by the census of 1868-its distre'button. !! 4
§ 2 City of Delhi-Minor towns above 2000 PoP
PoPulation-Ballabgarh !! 85
Delhi- -+Sunipat-distribution of towns fairly equal-except in the hills, .
3. Diatn'bution of tribes simple-Jat tribe largely Prevalent-,of , this !! 86

§
- - -two-divisions Southern and Northern. The Dah yaa an d Ahulansa . Tra-
_ditional
viaio of the `DahY
ditional origin another tradition. The Àhulana' tradi!-
wn into Deswalas and l?ncchamwahes ' not known hically.
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the Gujar tribe.
§ 5. Brahmins of the distn'ct-proverba about them-Tagas.
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7. Chauhams,
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§ 10. Nau-M uslim8-Sttiatiscs of population how far complete. Tabu- 93
1ar statement.
11. Notes On towns,
94
§ 12. Ballabgai'h-its founding-its history-A
native atratagem-(foot », 9S
Siiigh--Anrud Singh-Sabib Singh-Ram
note)-Bahadur S'gh-Naryyan
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present town.
1 inBh-Nt+har
Singh--his minority-hanged in the mutiny-The
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uses of `Gur -quantity eaten-ways of cooking `Dalya'-` Khichri,' `Dal'--
`Roti.'
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§ 3. Dress of the zamindar { Hindfi)-Boys' dress-women's dress-The
iei Muhammadan dress of men and women-the Muhammadan.boy--shoes.
yox 4, Houses-the `dahlij'-the than -the `chauk'-the `Kothi'-the
obaras. -Furniture .of the inner rooms-Drinking water.
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§ 5. Household vessels. -
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f 6, Women s ornaments-]1en s ornaments, not often worn by adults.
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& Noble exceptions to the 6'eneral disloyalty--bl1r
23.
188 d 5'ara 206 § 18.. Attestation of the Riw4j-i-;im.
§ 19. Fairing of the Record-Style of execution--Alterationa.
i § 24, The men of Ishakpur. 207
188e §20. Distribution of Fair Parches of Hol ' -Amount thus to be
of good service-The Kail'aea men-Papal. 208
§ 25. Other uses 188f realised.
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and its punishment-Revenue collections-

§ 26: General disaffection n_ , Io Puiation
,
Disarmin n of the § 21. Village Statements-Wi11 the Deputy Commissioner kindly acid
The C tai Commission-Trim of the kin;,
killed-(foot vote). to and eorreot them 1
and transfer to the Punk ab-A `mutineer' shot but not
§ 22. No separate Record f Rights in water-courses-1. Why not on
C$AI IEB X.-Hi$torJ of the Operations of rise Present Settlement. '
the Jamna Cana1-2. Why not in the case of Irrigation from ]Jill-water
of settlement opera- 189 streams.
§ 1. Distribution of villages the commencementProviuce-(foot
Drstn
ttona --District boundary with the rth West Pmvmc note). 211 § 23. Maps of the àbadf'-not found time for. '
and Summary Settlement villages. 190 212 § 24. The preservation of rough attestation papers.
§ w Regular Settlement
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§ 3, Anthonty for and princilplPs of assessment
Cxovernruent share- lyl 213 § 25, Papers composing the Settlement Record-Naksha Chahat-Final
rat and -other data to be
.
considered- Revenue-
_ _- - Proceeding.
Rates to be rePorted. 214 § 26. Judicial work of the Settlement-Revenue cases-Vicissitudes
lft
192 of patwar`s,
§ 4. Gaaetted Officers with the Settlement.
§ 5, Subordinate Staff. ,, 193 215 § 27, Expenses of the Settlement,
disputes-Riverain 194 xis § 28. Imperial and Provincial services-Allowances-Travelling allow-
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§ s, Fiat instrnctionsfor measurements- , -Boundary
vrllab -Scae o measuremen-a
villages ` Prti Jadtd Att eat ati u-n b y Supervising
217,
ances.
§ 29.
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Details of Imperial and Provincial service grants.

Officers. .
finished-
§ 7, Demarcation of boundaries-Boundary pillars-Work
-uror HIS § 30. Settlement Fees-Mode of diabursing soma under this account,-
r LuuudarY di,-
s ute in each tahsfl- foot note)-Hasavpu]J
.
Cases of dip Chief items of expenditure.

pute-rrrogreas year by year .
:
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ÌLham ghewat ' (Prelrmr..ary Statement
of hold !! 196 CH- PTER XI.-T1u dssessnent, .
§ 8. Preparation of nt p ap ers-Order as to the

Jogs)-Patwarrs papers-The Old Settleme Khewat work § 1, The work o£ assessment partly mine partly Mr. Wood's-Revision
authority of previous record-Genealogical Tables- Kham
of Note-Book James necessary especially in Ballabgash-Delhi talisil-Sumlat.
furishod-Progreas year by .year. .
Measurements of villages and Klr.tsrasProg Year by year- !! 2"0 § 2 Distribution of Ballabgarh village by circles.
§
9.
Instructions for making entries-1. Boundaries of fields- 2 Measuuements
fie1ds-5. Form of
o `21 § 3. Kha dar-Bangar circle. .
of
of rrverain villag es=3. Reads-. Former terms-7. Entries in Khasra-
numbers
Yhasra-6 ` ' urusf' and ` Ghairinklaurusi'
8. Rule for calculating fractions measuremeuts-9. )tames of soils-10.
! 222
went.
§ 4. The Banger circle-Canal bulges and then- beaizng an the assess-
. Irrigated lauds. .
198 223 §5. Dahri circle,

§ 10. Rough `Parches.' 224 Zerkohi circle-Deposit of sand;
§ 6.
of the amfn- IJ9
§ 11. Measurement work done by patwarfs-Appearance
`
discontinued-Pines on `.'25 §7. Khandrnt circle.
His disappearauce-Year] Y Papery and Village Diary
twdris. 2':G § $. Kohi circle-Bands.
§ 12. Comparison with revenue survey
measurements-Difference of !! 200
the settlement measurements-,tatement show ing Det a iled
.- -
Settlement Areas.
at the village-
§ 13. Attestation of rights-how made-Attesttion § 10. Review of Mr. Wood's report by the Con}ntissioner-.-Statement--
there are
.. . Attestation if honestly done is nearly perfect, but in practice
as to attestation--
a
Tort-
showing Settlement Officer's and Commissionera Rates.
by year-.Orders of Settlement Officer
(D
Progress year ., absen- 2ti'J § 11. Data of ,assessment.

vernment pro rt Y 7atea-Mortgagee in possession-An
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gi :g ea for term
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tee'a interest-Numerous names in successive khatas-Land leased 230 § 12. Amended produce estimates-Comparative Statement of James.
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f settlement.
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separate mill for each
231 § 13. Differences as to Principles of Assessment between Settlement
' § 14. Enquiries into rights of tenants-A Officer and the Commissioner. '(1) Irrigated rotes.
(0
e-Effectòf former entries-Attestation of rents.

of Government
232 § 14. Kasha wells
§ 15.. The Wajib-ul-arz or Admihistration Paper-Right
.
`C33
to cut !lam-what the paper consists of-how it was
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prepared. ,
§ 15. (3) Specia1 dry rate on `Harsh' unr' ted.
how attested-Molarband-Araag - 204 X34
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§ 16. Government rights to min Procedure before announcement of vil a jamaa-Announce-

§ 16.
Prtr--ChaUc pris in certain villages. menu how made-how received-Results Chakwar for the tahsiL
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t7. `ldalba
.
tlfe Admiaigtration Paper, » 203 § 17. Appeals-conaog*ience in some canes of reductions thereby given.
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P:Lra 260 § 42. Owner's rate.

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ryar. Results of assessment in the tabsfl.

.§ 18. Remarks on the differences from Pevenue Rates nltl'lt 2i;fl
Lions of Goverument as to assessment in particular circles-`l'hc kohf Circle § 44. Announcement of 'auras.
assessments.
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res tricted urigatiou.
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§ 19. Progressive assessments for 10 villages-My reasons for proposing Subsequent reaction. The Settlement Officer's errrues6
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them-Orders of the Financial Commissioner-remarks explaining the - hope. .
Assesaments likely to drive out the proprietors must sometimes be r e-- § 46. Villages under Canal irrigation assessed t
(foot note)-Calculation of progression how ru:ule. Villages under progressive rates assesswent. In Delhi Tahsil none. Sunipat at more a true dry
lauras, Tahsil four. Vil1ag
assessed under a true dry assessment, 20,1 in Delhi and 19
ih Sdiri1?at,
§ 20. Summary of results of assessment-and forecast. x3s points m the assessment. Ailuvion and Diluvion . Rule
§ 47. ,General po
§ 21. Special features of the tahsil requiring attention of the revenue zay of Pro on the Del }u nveraur, Previous rule as to treatment of
vion, and.practice of the villages as to interval adjustment. di-allu-
authorities-(1). Shor in Khadax villages-(2). Damage done by the Okhla- New rule ,every
'r,.hn1-(3). Deterioration of hill soil by reason of. formation of ravines-
}l+stimate of extent of the range of inhueuce of the Baud-(foot note)-(1).
Lepasit of sand silt-(5). Prolonged submersion m the Dahri Circle-The
Lalkitabs should always be consulted.
thane g is dealt with. Check of di-alluviou measurements in starting the new
settlement. Statement of Allusion and Diluvion. Moderation
'new alluvial laud. ( Foot note). Shrkarrlah Tilori, (foot note). in
§ 48. Maafl investiga,trons-Authority-Grants
grants-Grants under 10 bigahs-Grants in perpetuit . in `1 perpetuity-Life
.
§ 22. Irrigation from Agra Canal. 240 1) after 1858. {2)
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befo re 185$--Registers.
23. Distribution of villages in chaks-(Delhi tahsil). 241.
267 § 49. Mode of proe
24. The Kh&dar-Bangar Circle, 242 zcs
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§ 50. Kheri Taga madfi.
§25. Bangar Circle. 2-di
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2119 The sofa of Shlig Ram.
b)
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§ 26. Dabri or Debar Circle. 244

.,fir . 270 ' § 52, The grant 'gh-The Dieta'ct Record,
to the heirs of Baldeo Sin
27. Zerkohi Circle.
Offico, (foot note). , .
§ 28. Kohf Circle. . 246 27r § 59. chant t4 Ahmadof SahuPura.
§ 29. Khandrat Circle. 247 x72 § 54. Owner's rate in Jagir villages
273 § 55. Statement sho vin g maa is in D elhr.
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§ 30. circle rates of the Settlement Officer and the Commissioner.
.
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248
Reference
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§ 31. Differences in the various circles-Dabri of Kh'adar-Bfingar- 249 274 § 56. Assessment of ens, ,
Dahri ohahi and, bh{r-Kohi rausli-Dahri rate on `bands.--Present state of 275 § 57. Protective leases on wells-Tak)vi ted since 1862, (foot note).
c
facts. 2w0 276 § 58. Cesses,
32.Results of application of rates-Comparative Statement of James.
32 a. Formation of a Jhil Chak in Chak Debar.
§ 33. Report on Civil Station assessments-Nazul
property held by the
250a
2'1
» 277
277a
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§
§ 60. The kistbandi amount`

59. Tabulated statement showing the results of
the new assessment.
J
Municipal Committee. » § fit. Distribution of the revenue on holdin -I'rocedare--
former distribution-` Sarasari parts -Table, showing ect o
§ 34. Assessment Circles-(SuniPat Tahsfl)
-Minor differences in each modes of the
circle--(1). Low riverain-(2). Main West Khtdar-(4). Banger bath.
East Ridge-(5). Canal va11ey-(6). West Banger. § 62. he two instalments.
§ 35. Crops in the two shake, '
253 Caarrsx XIL-Subordinate and MdsccZlanebua
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§ 37. Increase of `waste' in the Bangar-meaning of this fact-Increase gas
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in cultivation and irri-
of cultivation in the Khadar whence made-Changes n RSO § 2. State of matters at atartrng-Meal
taken,
gatiou summed up-Canal area-Markets and general development-Rise in.
prices-Increase in population. 281 § 3. Instruction of patwarfs-A stioiig order
for we ediirg out patWSrla,
3
w,. 38. Assessment of the Khadar-Rates. 2G .. 282 § 4. The order followed out with what
results. .
§ 39. Assessment of the es in » 283 § 5. Later proceedings..
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irrigation power.
284 . § 6. Examinations of
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. `Reh'-difficult9 of alscertaining accnratelY the damage done by

§ 40. 2S.r Measurement by Hindj.1 hdn patw6rfa,
7.
. it-Various staged described-(1) ruin-(2) second stage-(3) inceptive stage. .
.
§ 41. Cln nge in method of assessment-" 1Jnirrigated aspect "-mean-
.lug of the terms,
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§ 8. ` Gom'ashtas.' Pares 286

§ 9. Funding the patw&ria' pay. r- w
287
§ 10. Review of the procedure adopted. 2fi8
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§ 11. Advance of six months'. pay.

289 1-
§ 12. New patwarfa' arrangements, .290
§ 13. Revision of Circles. :L91 v.
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§ 14. Tabular statement showing conditions of pay, &c., now. - 292

fled.
§ 15. Additional measures proposed-Not allowed, and therefore modi
§ 16. The present scheme.

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294
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§ 17. Patwaris'.houses not provided
Pre in Delhi. 'i -
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§ 18 &4n fingos. 296
§ 19. Zai1ddrs-First orders for appointing them. 297
§ 20. Subsequent instruction. 2913
§ 21. Government orders finally issued. , 299
§ 22, Government Rules promulgated. 300
§' 23.Opinion founded on the experience of the past three years. 301
- § 24. Delay in making the appointments why not injurious.
§ 25. Remarks on the procedure. 303
_ § 26. Reference to conduct in the Mutiny. 304
§ 27. Aim of above re mark. 305
§ 28. Homogeneity of Zails-` Tappas.' 306..
§ 29. Particulars as to Zaila-Jagir villages and the Zailderf teas. 307
§ 30. adopted.
,s 308
§ 31. Procedure when Deputy Commissioner was absent.
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§ 32. Statement showing Particulars of appointments.
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§ 33. _ I Settlement villages-In Government vil- » 31.1 '.
§ 34.. Chau1id3rs-Numbers-Pay-Administration Paper entry. » 312

§ 35. Government Property.
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§ 36. Taif1-Ear1ier proceedings-Register of 1868-A mistake as to
Government intentions-Limitation of Taiul cases-Orders of 1872. -» 1
Assessment Appeals,
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§ 89. Sale of four villages. Form G.
317
Statement of K .nungo.
y 318
319 Statement showing Zildppolntnnenta;
,> 320 List of words used by rn1ndra.
PERMISSION OF THE
List of the mope important Trratca and

in the Delhi ettleme n p ort.
In page 2 at line the top for
5 from read
Do. 7 re bridging the ' Barhiva Naddi, subs;ittite the
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fullowlug. ` During tlie dozen 3Tea1s or snore

teat the Public Words De went Dave had
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"made to
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charge of the road, no bridge has been bnilc on
this spot, b t p.re ratioiis are now (1883) being
this conspicuous want.
t
Do. 43 at line 13 from t he top insert another is be .
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twee ii ` is and ` t e.' .
46 at Ime 4 from the bottom-for. they -read

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the people.
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« Since the above was wrltten,
. I have had.
" an opportunity of special examination of the
"Delhi and Ballabgarh Tahsils, with reference to
" the question of `bands' and now think my
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" ad vocacy of the restoration and improvement
. " ofthese i ri g tion..works "scarcely stronga enough.
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" There area rs of spots where a valuable

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. a and famine can be
" obtained, and I would urge the District Com-
" t,utee not to stop in the systematic prosecution
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" of such works till an . account shall. have been
. '° gtheu of every considerable stream now making
its way down the hill sides its precious fluid
" either escaping ' direct into the river, ur falling
into a noaiuas jiiii. I am thankful to say that
\ " the present Deput.y Commissioner, Mr. T. W.
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" Smyth, concurs with me in his sense of the
« urgency and import once of thNse works. Some
" of my remarks on the bands in detail would
" no w be more favourable."
Do. 58 In line 5 from the bottom, add :--
' Though there is good hope now (1883)
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sbalrar, Sikaridarabad Tahsil. On, the north, Tahsil Panipat
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very deep, and irrigation by well almost every where imprac-
of the Karnal district is the bounds' . On the west the ticable. A moderate pastnre is obtained by flocks of she p'
Sam pla Tahsil of Rohtak reaches down as far as opposite end goats herded by Gijar .boys.. This tribe has appro-.
Kundal -in the south-west corner of Suns t. Below this 1
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printed almost entirely the hill villages, as they suit their
Tahsf is Gohan and JhaJJjar of the same district, the former
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SallY attributed to the GnJ'ar.* The highest point of . the
.
Then comes the Sadar Tahsfl of the Gur non district down, .
cOm range probably is near Bheti-104 feet above the sea and .
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to the south-west corner of Ballabgarh. The Palwal Tahsil 360t above, the Jamna Railway Bridge at .Delhi. The
of Gur non forms the boundary to the south. breadth varies g At Aran ap ur it is not less than
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4. The tract thus limited, though exliibiting none of Para. 4. ten miles, while toward the northern end the bills dwindle
.
Refer ence V
the beauties of mountainous districts, possesses a consider- Striking The Delhi
Ridge.'
into a mere rocky ridge only,. a few yards broad. That '
able diversity of h sicsl feature, and in arts is not wanting `Ridge, however, since the memorable hot weather of 1$57
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is picturesqueness. This it owes to the bills and to the district. is a name not likely to be forgotten byT Englishmen.
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hills k
river. The former, which at the southern end join on to the theThe river. 6. The hills divide the district into two parts.
.hills of hlewat and so meet with the Arwalis, at the other The northern which is the larger is also the more fertile
tart from the river at .Waziriibad1 4 miles north of Delhi and 1 The lulls. Two main and more Without going minutely into details
skirting the present city on the north-west and, west stretch divisions ' of - 1'oP 1'oPu1ous.
the district. which will with more advantage be treated of in describing

away nearly due south to Mahrauli. Before reaching this
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North and the various Assessment Circles, it may be said that this .
place, however, they branch out into two halves, one going
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South. larg er half of the district consists of three parts the Kh'adar
full south the other sweeping round in a curve to the south- The North. or Riverain of the Jamna=--the or nia$d-=
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east to Aran ur whence gain it turns south-west and
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an the' Debar or Lowland subject to floods.-The Khadai
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Bhatf holds on southward lies rather low, has a ig t sari -y ; soil, and easy irrigation.
to Kot, and so out of the district into Gurg non But though
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from wells.
the main direction may thus be described, there are-here
and there irregularly shaped spurs which break the continui- The Ban g ar is higher, and by nature, dryer.. The W, J.
ty of the ranbe, and at the same time greatly extend its arear Canal, however; traverses its whole length and affords a too
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The irregular oval enclosed by the branching halves above copious irrigation which has produced a sad effect on the-
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spoken of is really a plateau of a light sandy soil, lying high appearance of the country. The most casual observation
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east. Here in different places are earth-work dams aggregat- * His character for industry and general eligibility as a neighbour is
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in his Kangra Settlement heport Appendix V. Proverb No. 18 gives a
. The hills of Delhi though not attractive in them- somewhat different meaning to the phrase. But the optative meaning hero
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selves give a pleasant view across the Jamna and in clear
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King Toghlak-was buildin his fort .at the same time that the Pfr
weather allv w it is said even a glimpse of the Hi malaryas. ' Niz m-ud-din was making a stair case we b
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is bare, supporting little or no vege- The samo workmen laboured day and night, but those of the king required rest.
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tation save a stunted ` kikar (Acacia Arabia) or `karil' continued.

Filled with envy the king sent orders that no banya should supply the
Pir with oil, so that the workmen might have no tight. However the
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(CapPaxis aphYlla) or the small bush of the ` bdri ' ( Ziz hus miraculous power of their emPtoYer enabled the night-workers to b rn
nummularia which with its prickly thorn is so inhospitable
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water instead of oil, and in return to the message from the king, the
to the foot traveller. The. surface of the ground is sprinkred saint uttered the a Gujar' e.
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with thin laminae of mica which shine in the sunlight like
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For other sayings of the kind see para. 87.

.t Making the bride itself 685 feet above the level of the sea. The
gold. The stone which juts. up from the ground here and. , highest recorded flood of the river at this pointy was 673 7 feet.` The
there. is hard and often shat -edged, Water of course lies sun dial in the Fort at Delhi gives 8': 5 feet, but this I fancy i
too high. ..
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passes throwgah Balla,bgarh at a distance of 22 miles from naddi drains the whole of the hills 1Ying in the vicinit of O
The soil of this part is mostly a light sandy loam Aran ur to its .It is larger than the
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which under .good hands is very fairly productive. The Tekhand Halo and in flood it is sometimes violent enoughb to
- stop the passage of travellers at the point where it crosses
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a to g et level. a few miles below Badarpur; it is mgstl 3 the Mathra Road. There was 'a bridge here a few years ago,
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a the detritus from the hill slopes, and in the but having been carried away in 1875, it has not been replaced,
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rainy months is marsh Y and in places flooded-the passage of nor is there anY sign of the Public Works Department feeling H (
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the water is toward the south where it debouches at the top
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itself called on to. do so. The want is a conspicuous one, and o b

of the Palwal Tahsfl. , if not supplied by Government might in charity be seen to Mx
Qom
South Bal by the District Rates Committee. The south Ballabgarh
' 9. The above will give a general idea of the plY
i sical Para. 9.
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labgarh drain- drainage runs more decisively south-east. The torrents and O 7o G1
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features of Delhi.. Soma of them will be. described g from the north are b
Drainage of drainagea channels on this part be
,
on in connection with special mat- ,the district.
,
detail further . -
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tors relatinga to revenue. But I think it well' here to make
as follows , n
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some remarks on the drainage of the' district: The subject (1.) -There is a small channel issuing from the hills
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is of primary importouce from a revenue point of view , Maharajpur south of the village Meola Maharajpur which comes down m 'd
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channel. on to the low ground of Fateh p ur Chandila. I do not Hx
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this part
It is not correct to say as has been said in the District Gazetteer that
is naturally the poorest and least fertile of the District."
whole hill. tract
inferior to the
and wuch.of
Ballabgarh
the
Bangor.
land under
Nor
.
is it
the hills
"almost
in various
entirely
for its cultivation;" The.Chak has 889 wells irrigating
The
parts is
depen-
Ballabgarh,
Bangar.
Wrongly
(2.) The Par
naddf,
think this is an Y.: further. .
(2.)-A much larger stream called the `Parsaun' comes

down from the Badhkhal hill on the same low ground in
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dent on
or per cent. of the cultivated area. I think described in Fatehpur C handily, a little to the south of the Qth er. It
at a fair estimate 7864 acres 14
the crosses the Agra Road under a bridge.an1 fills the tank
the ii}formation quoted must have' been obtained from Thornton's Gazet- H
teer which either was inaccurate. or must have described a country quite Gazetteer. at Farfdabad. ' Thenceforward it divides one. branch of O
are
rent in its features from those of the Ballabgarh Baugar
different
now.
ar as the
the. watercourse goes down the old
.
road toward the

on
r
viawI

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CARRIED ON BY OSWALD WOOD,

AT THE PRESS, BY SAID JL

INDIA OFFICE LIBRARY & RECORDS

I have the honour herewith to submit .the

Final ort on the Sett ement operations recently

2. The circumstances under which I was

the work now reported on His Honor the Lieute-

-of the S ttioment was carried on at

ed the Settlement .part proper in considerable detail, '

and this is what. seemed of most importance. There

INDIA OFFICE LIBRARY

record and assessment are I think these .

g Taul and Balla axh tenants

,-Increase of lanibardars in five villages.

. I am directed to submit for the orders of Government the final

I have the honour to be .

INDIA OFFICE LIBRARY

missioner would only invite attention to the remark at Pag 9 of the

pTinted report ( Para. 9 section 9) It will be a great pity if

white. substance alluded to, with which the Officiatin g Financial Co

OFFICE LIBRARY & RECORDS

OFFICE LIBRARY &RECORDS

reduction o - the standard of assessment from to the net assets.

book credit in favmr

remitted on chahi land. One of

4: the great falPinJ880 and rapid

ruled that the collected from the jhil should be credited

to the fact that the. possibility

by that the same course

ThIL. • Kharif. Total. -

22. In para. report Mr. Maconachie 'refers to the

1879 1,00,539 10 6 1,54,562 3 10 2,55,101 14 4

- 1880 26,366 4 10 76,185 2 9 1,02,5517 7• .

4 of your No. 1172, of

of these villages, twenty in number) is given by Mr. Maconachle in hIs

x the .of the sett1 lent officials to a minim4m, and to main.

z0 should, however, specifythat in a case oft se villages the assessments

w Circular No. VI. of 3rd A ri11879 and XV . of 25th November 1879,

M aconachies remarks ®n rep o as to the necessity for

25. Owing to the gistence in the district o the old capital of

Financial Commissioner, were finally adopted ;and sanction is now asked

86 of the Commissioner's review. In nisation of the kanungo establishment is tom

WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE

Senior Secy. to the Finl. Commr., P-un'ab.

Submit s . I have the honor to submit Mr. Maconachie's

In the Settlement Officer's letter referred to he-

M The report 4. The rep ort is as usual divided in to two parts

H following nearly, but not absolutely, the order prescribed.,

SEr'LEMEN'1' I;EPORT OF THE DELHI

INDIA OFFICE LIBRARY & RECORDS

aconachie has sub-divided his 339 In many

internal relations within the several 1)attis is of quite a Sonepat. Sonepat,

are locally termed; probably "sabil" is he correct word),

, and the principle affirmed. that the Circular 17 of

preserva tion i s i , pleasing incident found

after dealt with on these lines. Inquiry was directed

33. The statistics of PoPulation given in Chapter VI.

provisions of the enancy ,.

Ballabgarh tahsil , confiscated for misconduct in the Mutiny,

matter. ped pçr-

p ( The other tribes, none of themAold area.

as holding 38,690 and payingRs. 27,726. - -