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A.D. 1795.]
REGULATION 1.
263
Council instructed the resident to make the settlement of the revenue for
(1788-9.) the ensuing year 1196, under his own immediate control. The resident
accordingly completed the settlement, by granting leases for the term of
one year to certain aumiis, and for five years to others, by which they
bound themselves to pay a specific jumma or assessment. But the
Governor-General in Council being desirous of extending to the province
(Sept. 1789.) of Benares from the beginning of the year 1197, as far as circumstances
might admit, the principles of the decennial settlement directed to be
formed in the provinces of Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, those principles
were accordingly introduced in the districts of which the aumiis, in the
preceding year, had obtained leases for five years, by their consenting to
the resident's issuing pottahs or leases, under their and his joint seals
and signatures, for the remaining four years of the term of their own
engagements, to all the talookdars, and to the village zemindars and
farmers, by which it was stipulated that they should pay a certain fixed
assessment, the amount of which should be received by the aumiis, and
accounted for by them to Government; and in the districts, the leases
of which had been granted for one year only, and had consequently
expired, by the issuing of pottahs to the talookdars, and the village
zemindars and farmers, under the signature of the resident and the
rajah, fixing the revenue to be in like manner paid by them through
the aumiis for the term of ten years. The particulars of these arrange-
ments were detailed in the reports on the said settlements for one year,
and for four and ten years, made to the Governor-General in Council,
by the resident, on the 26th of April, the 30th of November, and the
26th of December, 1789, and the 25th November, 1790, and in the
papers and accounts therein referred to; and on a consideration of
them, the Governor-General in Council, on the 11th of February, 1791,
approved of the said quartennial and decennial settlements with the
talookdars, village zemindars, and farmers, and ordered " that the four
years' pottahs be confirmed for the ensuing six, so as to reduce the whole
to a ten years' settlement, and that assurances be given to the pottah-
holders, that as long as they continue to pay their revenue stipulated in the
last year of the increase, as specified in their several pottahs, they shall
not be liable to any further demand during their lives." This order
has been repeatedly notified to the parties whom it concerned, who,
with the exception of the pottah-holders in a few pergunnahs, and of
certain individual zemindars and farmers in others, have, by the per-
formance of the conditions required of them, become entitled to hold
their lands at a fixed assessment during their lives, as specified in the
said order. The Governor-General in Council has now further resolved,
that the revenue stipulated to be paid on account of the lands included
in the quartennial and decennial pottahs, the conditions of which have
been performed, whether held by zemindars or farmers, shall be fixed
in perpetuity, and that the person or persons now holding, or who may
hereafter become entitled under the Regulations to succeed to such
pottahs, shall not be liable to any additional payment beyond the highest
annual jumma specified in such pottahs. That this resolution may be
rendered more immediately and generally known, the resident is to
notify it to the parties interested by a proclamation to the following
effect.
gress of the assessment
of the land revenue in
the province of Be-
nares.
Revenue assessed on
the lands included in
pottahs, and the con-
ditions of which have
been performed, Axed
in perpetuity.
REGULATION 1.
263
Council instructed the resident to make the settlement of the revenue for
(1788-9.) the ensuing year 1196, under his own immediate control. The resident
accordingly completed the settlement, by granting leases for the term of
one year to certain aumiis, and for five years to others, by which they
bound themselves to pay a specific jumma or assessment. But the
Governor-General in Council being desirous of extending to the province
(Sept. 1789.) of Benares from the beginning of the year 1197, as far as circumstances
might admit, the principles of the decennial settlement directed to be
formed in the provinces of Bengal, Behar, and Orissa, those principles
were accordingly introduced in the districts of which the aumiis, in the
preceding year, had obtained leases for five years, by their consenting to
the resident's issuing pottahs or leases, under their and his joint seals
and signatures, for the remaining four years of the term of their own
engagements, to all the talookdars, and to the village zemindars and
farmers, by which it was stipulated that they should pay a certain fixed
assessment, the amount of which should be received by the aumiis, and
accounted for by them to Government; and in the districts, the leases
of which had been granted for one year only, and had consequently
expired, by the issuing of pottahs to the talookdars, and the village
zemindars and farmers, under the signature of the resident and the
rajah, fixing the revenue to be in like manner paid by them through
the aumiis for the term of ten years. The particulars of these arrange-
ments were detailed in the reports on the said settlements for one year,
and for four and ten years, made to the Governor-General in Council,
by the resident, on the 26th of April, the 30th of November, and the
26th of December, 1789, and the 25th November, 1790, and in the
papers and accounts therein referred to; and on a consideration of
them, the Governor-General in Council, on the 11th of February, 1791,
approved of the said quartennial and decennial settlements with the
talookdars, village zemindars, and farmers, and ordered " that the four
years' pottahs be confirmed for the ensuing six, so as to reduce the whole
to a ten years' settlement, and that assurances be given to the pottah-
holders, that as long as they continue to pay their revenue stipulated in the
last year of the increase, as specified in their several pottahs, they shall
not be liable to any further demand during their lives." This order
has been repeatedly notified to the parties whom it concerned, who,
with the exception of the pottah-holders in a few pergunnahs, and of
certain individual zemindars and farmers in others, have, by the per-
formance of the conditions required of them, become entitled to hold
their lands at a fixed assessment during their lives, as specified in the
said order. The Governor-General in Council has now further resolved,
that the revenue stipulated to be paid on account of the lands included
in the quartennial and decennial pottahs, the conditions of which have
been performed, whether held by zemindars or farmers, shall be fixed
in perpetuity, and that the person or persons now holding, or who may
hereafter become entitled under the Regulations to succeed to such
pottahs, shall not be liable to any additional payment beyond the highest
annual jumma specified in such pottahs. That this resolution may be
rendered more immediately and generally known, the resident is to
notify it to the parties interested by a proclamation to the following
effect.
gress of the assessment
of the land revenue in
the province of Be-
nares.
Revenue assessed on
the lands included in
pottahs, and the con-
ditions of which have
been performed, Axed
in perpetuity.