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REGULATION II.
[A.D. 1795.
How the deeds for
the settlement were
issued and authenti-
cated.
Lands and property
liable to be sold for
balances.
Registry of the ca-
nongoes.
beries and to breaches
of the peace.
the renters, and realized by the aurnils of the respective districts, as
far as those articles separately existed, but without attempting to extend
them.
XIV. In the manner above described, and with the assistance of
the accounts of the tushkhees for the preceding ten years, and such other
accounts and local information as could be obtained through the canon-
goes or otherwise, the mofussil settlements for four and ten years were
concluded. The pottahs for the settlements for four years were issued
under the seals of the aurnils, and numbered and countersigned in English
by the resident or his assistants; and those for the settlements for ten
years were authenticated by the signatures of the rajah and the resident.
The cabooleats or -engagements entered into by the village zemindars and
farmers on the formation of the permanent settlement bound them to an
observance of the following articles :
To pay the stipulated annual revenue punctually from the
month of Koar (October) to Jeyte (June) in each year; and agreeing, in
case of failure, that their property, real and personal, should be sold to
make good the deficiency.
T/Gytf. Not to attach, without the sanction of Government, any maafy,
mujray, kishnarpun, or other description of lakheraj land in the possession
of individuals, and held by them exempt from the payment of revenue, up
to the end of the Fussily year 1195; and agreeing, in the event of
Government's resuming any part of such exempted lands, to pay the
revenue assessable thereon, in addition to the jumma fixed by their
engagements ; and stipulating not to make any new grants of exempted
lands, on pain of such lands being confiscated to Government, and of
double the revenue assessable thereon being levied from the grantee or
grantees, for the period during wdiich such grantee or grantees should
have continued in possession.
To collect from the ryots according to the hookumnamas or
Regulations of the 25th of June and of 1st of July, 1788, referred to in
Sections III. and IV.
AY/M. To grant receipts to the ryots for their payments, under the
penalty of a fine of double the amount, to be awarded to anv ryot who
should prove that he had been refused such receipt.
NAyAk To support the canongoes in the full exercise of their functions.
Not to levy or receive any of the articles of the abolished,sayr-
jehaut, nor any sum on account of khaneh shoomary (another term for
the ghur dewary or house-tax), or abkarrv or distilleries, the collection of
the two last-mentioned articles (as specified in Section XIII.) having been
separated from the general settlement, and committed on behalf of
Government to the aurnils. The penalty for breach of this article was
fixed at three times the amount that might be illicitly collected.
AA7A2A. To be responsible, subordinately to the aumil, for the mainte-
nance of the peace, and for apprehending all disturbers thereof, in and
throughout their respective estates and farms ; not to harbour thieves or
robbers, but to secure their persons and deliver them up for trial, as well as
to recover, or in failure thereof, to be answerable for, and to make good the
value of all property robbed or stolen within their respective limits.
To send in for trial, accompanied by an attested report of the
(Sept. 1788.)
REGULATION II.
[A.D. 1795.
How the deeds for
the settlement were
issued and authenti-
cated.
Lands and property
liable to be sold for
balances.
Registry of the ca-
nongoes.
beries and to breaches
of the peace.
the renters, and realized by the aurnils of the respective districts, as
far as those articles separately existed, but without attempting to extend
them.
XIV. In the manner above described, and with the assistance of
the accounts of the tushkhees for the preceding ten years, and such other
accounts and local information as could be obtained through the canon-
goes or otherwise, the mofussil settlements for four and ten years were
concluded. The pottahs for the settlements for four years were issued
under the seals of the aurnils, and numbered and countersigned in English
by the resident or his assistants; and those for the settlements for ten
years were authenticated by the signatures of the rajah and the resident.
The cabooleats or -engagements entered into by the village zemindars and
farmers on the formation of the permanent settlement bound them to an
observance of the following articles :
To pay the stipulated annual revenue punctually from the
month of Koar (October) to Jeyte (June) in each year; and agreeing, in
case of failure, that their property, real and personal, should be sold to
make good the deficiency.
T/Gytf. Not to attach, without the sanction of Government, any maafy,
mujray, kishnarpun, or other description of lakheraj land in the possession
of individuals, and held by them exempt from the payment of revenue, up
to the end of the Fussily year 1195; and agreeing, in the event of
Government's resuming any part of such exempted lands, to pay the
revenue assessable thereon, in addition to the jumma fixed by their
engagements ; and stipulating not to make any new grants of exempted
lands, on pain of such lands being confiscated to Government, and of
double the revenue assessable thereon being levied from the grantee or
grantees, for the period during wdiich such grantee or grantees should
have continued in possession.
To collect from the ryots according to the hookumnamas or
Regulations of the 25th of June and of 1st of July, 1788, referred to in
Sections III. and IV.
AY/M. To grant receipts to the ryots for their payments, under the
penalty of a fine of double the amount, to be awarded to anv ryot who
should prove that he had been refused such receipt.
NAyAk To support the canongoes in the full exercise of their functions.
Not to levy or receive any of the articles of the abolished,sayr-
jehaut, nor any sum on account of khaneh shoomary (another term for
the ghur dewary or house-tax), or abkarrv or distilleries, the collection of
the two last-mentioned articles (as specified in Section XIII.) having been
separated from the general settlement, and committed on behalf of
Government to the aurnils. The penalty for breach of this article was
fixed at three times the amount that might be illicitly collected.
AA7A2A. To be responsible, subordinately to the aumil, for the mainte-
nance of the peace, and for apprehending all disturbers thereof, in and
throughout their respective estates and farms ; not to harbour thieves or
robbers, but to secure their persons and deliver them up for trial, as well as
to recover, or in failure thereof, to be answerable for, and to make good the
value of all property robbed or stolen within their respective limits.
To send in for trial, accompanied by an attested report of the
(Sept. 1788.)