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A.D. 1795.]
REGULATION II.
271
(1789-90.)
SeeSec. viii.
Reg. XXVII.
1795.
(1779-80.)
respectively, and to Ax it for the four unexpired years of the Ave years'
leases of the aumils, wherever those leases extended. This revision was
appointed to take place in each pergunnah, in order that after the mofussil
settlements for four years, beginning from 1197, should have been approved,
it might be declared permanent for the same term as the settlement to be
made tor the period of ten years, throughout that portion of the district
which was let on only an annual lease. This last part of the arrangement
was to be executed more immediately under the personal inspection of
the resident, on nearly the same general principles as had been prescribed
by Government for the settlement of the province of Behar. On these
preparatory measures being communicated to the Governor-General in
Council, it was resolved that a settlement of the zemindarry of Benares
should be formed for a period of ten years, agreeably to his resolutions of
the 20th May and 18th of September, 1789, regarding the settlement of
the province of Behar.
XII. A material deviation, however, was unavoidably made from these
resolutions; for Rajah Mahipnarain at that time declining (although he
subsequently acquiesced in the measure, as specified in Regulation 1.1795)
to consent to the restoration of the numerous class of village zemindars,
who had been dispossessed and reduced to the situation of cultivating
ryots, during the administrations of the Rajahs Bulwunt Sing and Cheyte
Sing, it became necessary to exclude from the benefit of the rights to
be conferred by this decennial settlement, all those landholders who had
been so dispossessed and reduced before the 1st of July, 1775 (1182 Fus-
sily), the date of the Anal transfer of the sovereignty of Benares to the
Company.
XIII. For the purpose of forming this permanent settlement, the resi-
dent and his assistants proceeded, in November, in 1789, on different
circuits throughout the four sircars composing the zemindarry of Benares;
their object being, in respect to the quartennial mofussil settlements, to
examine and revise the assessment, as proposed by the aumils and canon-
goes on the ground of the assul and abwaub up to the year 1187, and to
correct such errors as should appear to have been made, either in the
exclusion of persons entitled to be considered as zemindars (consistently
with the rule of exclusion speciAed in Section XII.), or in the allotment of
the jumma, in the constituent parts of the total of the assessment of each
district. This allotment was to be regulated (as well in regard to the
quartennial as the decennial settlements), as nearly as might be ascertain-
able, according to the ability of the respective villages or puttees (or
shares or subdivisions of villages), so as to admit of the zemindars and
farmers realizing the revenue assessed in conformity to the revenue rates
of 1187; and where a large proportion of the land remained waste and
uncultivated, a gradual and moderate russud or increase, for the few Arst
years of the term of the general leases, was to be assessed, in considera-
tion of the right of Government to some share in the advantages accruing
to the renter, by bringing the land into cultivation. It was farther pro-
vided, that the article of spirituous liquors, and the tax upon shopkeepers,
dealers, and weavers, comprehended under the denominations of abkarry,
ghur dewarv, and khergui, should be separated from the collections of
Respecting village
zemindars dispossessed
year 1182 (A.D. 1775).
Rules for forming
the permanent settle-
ment.
Russuds.
Articles of abkarry
and ghur dewary, and
khergui, left amauny,
and reserved to the
future disposal of Go-
vernment.
REGULATION II.
271
(1789-90.)
SeeSec. viii.
Reg. XXVII.
1795.
(1779-80.)
respectively, and to Ax it for the four unexpired years of the Ave years'
leases of the aumils, wherever those leases extended. This revision was
appointed to take place in each pergunnah, in order that after the mofussil
settlements for four years, beginning from 1197, should have been approved,
it might be declared permanent for the same term as the settlement to be
made tor the period of ten years, throughout that portion of the district
which was let on only an annual lease. This last part of the arrangement
was to be executed more immediately under the personal inspection of
the resident, on nearly the same general principles as had been prescribed
by Government for the settlement of the province of Behar. On these
preparatory measures being communicated to the Governor-General in
Council, it was resolved that a settlement of the zemindarry of Benares
should be formed for a period of ten years, agreeably to his resolutions of
the 20th May and 18th of September, 1789, regarding the settlement of
the province of Behar.
XII. A material deviation, however, was unavoidably made from these
resolutions; for Rajah Mahipnarain at that time declining (although he
subsequently acquiesced in the measure, as specified in Regulation 1.1795)
to consent to the restoration of the numerous class of village zemindars,
who had been dispossessed and reduced to the situation of cultivating
ryots, during the administrations of the Rajahs Bulwunt Sing and Cheyte
Sing, it became necessary to exclude from the benefit of the rights to
be conferred by this decennial settlement, all those landholders who had
been so dispossessed and reduced before the 1st of July, 1775 (1182 Fus-
sily), the date of the Anal transfer of the sovereignty of Benares to the
Company.
XIII. For the purpose of forming this permanent settlement, the resi-
dent and his assistants proceeded, in November, in 1789, on different
circuits throughout the four sircars composing the zemindarry of Benares;
their object being, in respect to the quartennial mofussil settlements, to
examine and revise the assessment, as proposed by the aumils and canon-
goes on the ground of the assul and abwaub up to the year 1187, and to
correct such errors as should appear to have been made, either in the
exclusion of persons entitled to be considered as zemindars (consistently
with the rule of exclusion speciAed in Section XII.), or in the allotment of
the jumma, in the constituent parts of the total of the assessment of each
district. This allotment was to be regulated (as well in regard to the
quartennial as the decennial settlements), as nearly as might be ascertain-
able, according to the ability of the respective villages or puttees (or
shares or subdivisions of villages), so as to admit of the zemindars and
farmers realizing the revenue assessed in conformity to the revenue rates
of 1187; and where a large proportion of the land remained waste and
uncultivated, a gradual and moderate russud or increase, for the few Arst
years of the term of the general leases, was to be assessed, in considera-
tion of the right of Government to some share in the advantages accruing
to the renter, by bringing the land into cultivation. It was farther pro-
vided, that the article of spirituous liquors, and the tax upon shopkeepers,
dealers, and weavers, comprehended under the denominations of abkarry,
ghur dewarv, and khergui, should be separated from the collections of
Respecting village
zemindars dispossessed
year 1182 (A.D. 1775).
Rules for forming
the permanent settle-
ment.
Russuds.
Articles of abkarry
and ghur dewary, and
khergui, left amauny,
and reserved to the
future disposal of Go-
vernment.