Clarke, Richard [Hrsg.]: The regulations of the government of Fort William in Bengal in force at the end of 1853 - to which are added, the acts of the government of India in force in that presidency: with lists of titles and an index (1): Regulations from 1793 to 1805 (London, 1854)

A.D. 1793.]

REGULATION VIII.

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See Sec. iv.
Reg.VII.1822.

April, 1792.
^September,

held khas or let in farm, from assessing such istemrardars according to the
genera! rate of the district.
LI. The foHowing rules are prescribed, to prevent undue exactions
from the dependent talookdars.
No zemindar, or other actual proprietor of land, shall demand an
increase from the talookdars dependent on him, although he should him-
self be subject to the payment of an increase of jumma to Government;
except npon proof that he is entitled so to do, either by the special custom
of the district, or by the conditions under which the talookdar holds his
tenure: or that the talookdar, by receiving abatements from his jumma,
has subjected himself to the payment of the increase demanded, and that
the lands are capable of affording it.
AAxuzA If, in any instance, it be proved that a zemindar, or other actual
proprietor of land, exacts more from a talookdar than he has a right to, the
court shall adjudge him to pay a penalty of double the amount of such
exaction, with all costs of suit, to the party injured.
LIE The zemindar, or other actual proprietor of land, is to let the
remaining lands of his zemindarry or estate, under the prescribed restric-
tions, in whatever manner he may think proper; but every engagement
contracted with under-farmers shall be specific as to the amount, and
conditions of it; and all sums received by any actual proprietor of land or
any farmer of land, of whatever description, over and above what is specified
in the engagements of the persons paying the same, shall be considered as
extorted, and be repaid with a. penalty of double the amount. The restric-
tions prescribed and referred to in this section are the following :
LIII. No person contracting with a zemindar, independent talookdar,
or other actual proprietor, or employed by him in the management of the
collections, shall be authorized to take charge of the lands or collections
without 'an amilnamah, or written commission, signed by such zemindar,
independent talookdar, or other actual proprietor.
LIV.* The impositions upon the ryots, under the denomination of ab-
wab, mliatoot, and other appellations, from their number and uncertainty
having become intricate to adjust, and a source of oppression to the ryots,
all proprietors of land and dependent talookdars shall revise the same,
in concert with the ryots, and consolidate the whole with the assul into
one specific sum. In large zemindarries or estates, the proprietors are to
commence this simplification of the rents of their ryots in the pergunnahs
where the impositions are most numerous, and to proceed in it gradually
till completed; but so that it be effected for the whole of their lands by
the end of the Bengal year 1198 in the Bengal districts, and of the Fus-
sily and Willaity year 1198 in the Behar and Orissa districts, these being
the periods fixed for the delivery of pottahs, as hereafter specified.
LV. No actual proprietor of land, or dependent talookdar or farmer of
land, of whatever description, shall impose any new abwab or mhatoot
* It is enacted by Section iv. Regulation IV. 1794, that Sections liv. lvi. lvii. lviii. lix.
and lxi. shall not have effect in the Behar portion of zillah Ramgurh.
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Penalty for proprie-
tors making exactions



Process to be observed
to prevent imposition
on the ryots under the
denomination of abwab,
mhatoot, &c.

Proprietors and
farmers of land pro-
hibited imposing any