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A.D. 1795.]
REGULATION II.
275
NccoMtf. Pursuant to the principles prescribed for this quartennial and Rule for the adjust-
decennial settlement, sundry village farmers having been removed during zembda:^%ecol
the progress of it by the reinstatement of the rightful zemindars, a rule was vering possession from
published, on the 21st of February, 1790, for adjusting the accounts of
the wassilaut or current year's collections between such parties. By this
rule, the displaced farmers were entitled to credit for the amount of what-
ever tuccavy (money for the purchase of seed) they might establish to
have advanced to the ryots, together with a commission of three per cent.
(whatever might be the extent of the farm) on the amount of the revenue
realized. The amount of this charge was to be borne altogether by the
reinstated zemindar, without his being entitled to make any demand on
that account from his ryots, who were only to repay to him the amount of
the tuccavy that had been really advanced to them by the removed farmer.
But such farmer was not to be allowed credit for the amount of any bonds
or engagements executed by ryots for sums stated to be advanced for
tuccavy, but which should in reality have been taken from them for the
balances of former years, which were thence virtually declared irrecover-
able.
XVII. The landholders in the zemindarry of Benares consist for Description of a
the most part of village zemindars, paying the revenue of their lands to semeLntl
Government jointly with one or more putteedars, or partners descended Rom and of the joint puttee-
the same common stock. Some of these putteedars have had their interior cm,',preh^'ndi'd. Jitt.'the
puttees or shares rendered distinct; whilst those of the major part still differences in respect
continue annexed to, and blended or in common with, the share or shares dther^di^tinct^or ^
of the principal of the family, or of the head men amongst the brethren, annexed and
being either one or more, whose names have been usually inserted in the
pottahs, cabooleats, and other engagements for the public revenue. With
the general consent of the inferior putteedars, this mode was adhered to
in the aforesaid settlement, leaving an option to such putteedars as might
then or afterwards think themselves aggrieved, or be desirous of separating
from their brethren, to prosecute for that purpose in the Adawlut. By
this mode of procedure, they may obtain a separation of their family share
of the estate, and procure a separate pottah, subject to the payment of a
proportionate part of the jumma assessed on the joint estate ; but, in the
mean time, those of the brethren whose names stand inserted in the
Government's pottah, are held and considered to be immediately respon-
sible,, through the aumils, to Government for the whole of that jumma.
The only exception of this general rule exists in the pergunnah of Kur-
rendeh, where the decennial settlement could only be concluded by a
considerable number of these zemindars being admitted to enter into
cabooleats, in which they themselves agreed to the nomination of certain
persons to act on their joint parts, under the description of serberakers, or Serberakers, or ma-
managers. This expedient was acquiesced in, under the condition that the
responsibility of the zemindars should remain undiminished, and that they
might, whenever they pleased, dismiss these agents, after adjusting accounts
with, and satisfying them as to any balance that might be justly due to them.
There are also many talookdarries within the four sircars com- Taiookdarry tenures
posing the zemindarry of Benares, which have depending on them a in Benares,
greater or less number of village zemindars, many of whom still retain the
right of disposing by sale of their own estates, subject, of course, to the
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REGULATION II.
275
NccoMtf. Pursuant to the principles prescribed for this quartennial and Rule for the adjust-
decennial settlement, sundry village farmers having been removed during zembda:^%ecol
the progress of it by the reinstatement of the rightful zemindars, a rule was vering possession from
published, on the 21st of February, 1790, for adjusting the accounts of
the wassilaut or current year's collections between such parties. By this
rule, the displaced farmers were entitled to credit for the amount of what-
ever tuccavy (money for the purchase of seed) they might establish to
have advanced to the ryots, together with a commission of three per cent.
(whatever might be the extent of the farm) on the amount of the revenue
realized. The amount of this charge was to be borne altogether by the
reinstated zemindar, without his being entitled to make any demand on
that account from his ryots, who were only to repay to him the amount of
the tuccavy that had been really advanced to them by the removed farmer.
But such farmer was not to be allowed credit for the amount of any bonds
or engagements executed by ryots for sums stated to be advanced for
tuccavy, but which should in reality have been taken from them for the
balances of former years, which were thence virtually declared irrecover-
able.
XVII. The landholders in the zemindarry of Benares consist for Description of a
the most part of village zemindars, paying the revenue of their lands to semeLntl
Government jointly with one or more putteedars, or partners descended Rom and of the joint puttee-
the same common stock. Some of these putteedars have had their interior cm,',preh^'ndi'd. Jitt.'the
puttees or shares rendered distinct; whilst those of the major part still differences in respect
continue annexed to, and blended or in common with, the share or shares dther^di^tinct^or ^
of the principal of the family, or of the head men amongst the brethren, annexed and
being either one or more, whose names have been usually inserted in the
pottahs, cabooleats, and other engagements for the public revenue. With
the general consent of the inferior putteedars, this mode was adhered to
in the aforesaid settlement, leaving an option to such putteedars as might
then or afterwards think themselves aggrieved, or be desirous of separating
from their brethren, to prosecute for that purpose in the Adawlut. By
this mode of procedure, they may obtain a separation of their family share
of the estate, and procure a separate pottah, subject to the payment of a
proportionate part of the jumma assessed on the joint estate ; but, in the
mean time, those of the brethren whose names stand inserted in the
Government's pottah, are held and considered to be immediately respon-
sible,, through the aumils, to Government for the whole of that jumma.
The only exception of this general rule exists in the pergunnah of Kur-
rendeh, where the decennial settlement could only be concluded by a
considerable number of these zemindars being admitted to enter into
cabooleats, in which they themselves agreed to the nomination of certain
persons to act on their joint parts, under the description of serberakers, or Serberakers, or ma-
managers. This expedient was acquiesced in, under the condition that the
responsibility of the zemindars should remain undiminished, and that they
might, whenever they pleased, dismiss these agents, after adjusting accounts
with, and satisfying them as to any balance that might be justly due to them.
There are also many talookdarries within the four sircars com- Taiookdarry tenures
posing the zemindarry of Benares, which have depending on them a in Benares,
greater or less number of village zemindars, many of whom still retain the
right of disposing by sale of their own estates, subject, of course, to the
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