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REGULATION XXXIII.
[A.D. 1795.
ryots without their con-
sent.
Similar rules for the
observance of the au-
Terms notified on
which the natives may
contract with Euro-
peans for the raising of
the indigo-plant.
What persons among
the natives may thus
contract.
Exception in respect
to the grounds of chup-
perbund ryots.
perbund ryots may
contract with Euro-
peans for the raising of
indigo.
Canongoe to fix the
of indigo, the grounds of any chupperbund or khud casht ryot, unless on
the condition of such settled ryot's razeenamah being previously delivered
into the office of the resident, under the attestation of the canongoes.
4^A. As the aumil is in the amauny or unsettled villages
of each pergunnah in the stead and place of the pottahdars of Government,
such aumils are, as far as regards the granting of any grounds therein to
any European for the cultivation of indigo, to consider themselves as
bound to be governed by the same qualifications, restrictions, and conditions
as are provided and specified in the three preceding clauses and articles for
the guidance of the pottahdars in similar instances: nor is any aumil to
make such grants out of the cutcha lands without the privity and consent
of the canongoes, who are to attend, in every such instance, to the due and
full observance of the requisitions thus made."
The notification comprehended in this section was confirmed by
the Governor-General in Council under date the 4th of July, 1794.
VIII. On the 12th of July, 1794, a circular notification was
published by the resident, announcing to the natives that the Governor-
General in Council had no objection, but rather wished to encourage their
entering into contracts with Europeans to raise for them the indigo-plant,
and to deliver it to them when ready to be cut and transported to their
manufacturing-houses ; subject, however, to the conditions in the clauses
under mentioned:
/S6CC7M?. "yLA That only the pottahdars of Government (or in
amauny lands the aumif) be competent to enter into such contracts with
Europeans; which condition has, however, been since modified as under
the next section.
VAyW. " 2?3(A That even pottahdars of Government shall not be
competent to appfy the grounds occupied in husbandry by chupperbund
or khud casht ryots not in balance as to their rent, to raise indigo on,
without the latter's full and free consent."
IX. But on a representation being made by some of the indigo-
planters, that the prohibition in Clause Second, Section VIII. would
prove highly prejudicial to them, and particularly expose them to undue
exactions on the part of the pottahdars of Government; at the same time
that they offered to hold the produce of the indigo crops at all times
bound for the payment of the amount of the contract rates for which they
should have agreed, so as always to prove an adequate security to the pot-
tahdar or pottahdars of Government, for the junnna of the part of his or
their zemindarry or farm planted with indigo; Clause Second, Sec-
tion VIII. was, with a view to the promotion and general increase of
cultivation, declared on the 22nd July, 1794, to be repealed, so far as
that Europeans were pronounced at liberty to enter into contracts, on the
above conditions, with the chupperbund or khud casht ryots, or with put-
teed ars whose puttees might be distinct and separate, and have been
divided off from the pottahdar's part of the estate, for cultivating, sowing,
and rearing the indigo-plant by their own labour, within their respective
limits of cultivation, in the same manner as is allowed to pottahdars under
Section VIII.
Where such indigo cultivation as is described under the first
REGULATION XXXIII.
[A.D. 1795.
ryots without their con-
sent.
Similar rules for the
observance of the au-
Terms notified on
which the natives may
contract with Euro-
peans for the raising of
the indigo-plant.
What persons among
the natives may thus
contract.
Exception in respect
to the grounds of chup-
perbund ryots.
perbund ryots may
contract with Euro-
peans for the raising of
indigo.
Canongoe to fix the
of indigo, the grounds of any chupperbund or khud casht ryot, unless on
the condition of such settled ryot's razeenamah being previously delivered
into the office of the resident, under the attestation of the canongoes.
4^A. As the aumil is in the amauny or unsettled villages
of each pergunnah in the stead and place of the pottahdars of Government,
such aumils are, as far as regards the granting of any grounds therein to
any European for the cultivation of indigo, to consider themselves as
bound to be governed by the same qualifications, restrictions, and conditions
as are provided and specified in the three preceding clauses and articles for
the guidance of the pottahdars in similar instances: nor is any aumil to
make such grants out of the cutcha lands without the privity and consent
of the canongoes, who are to attend, in every such instance, to the due and
full observance of the requisitions thus made."
The notification comprehended in this section was confirmed by
the Governor-General in Council under date the 4th of July, 1794.
VIII. On the 12th of July, 1794, a circular notification was
published by the resident, announcing to the natives that the Governor-
General in Council had no objection, but rather wished to encourage their
entering into contracts with Europeans to raise for them the indigo-plant,
and to deliver it to them when ready to be cut and transported to their
manufacturing-houses ; subject, however, to the conditions in the clauses
under mentioned:
/S6CC7M?. "yLA That only the pottahdars of Government (or in
amauny lands the aumif) be competent to enter into such contracts with
Europeans; which condition has, however, been since modified as under
the next section.
VAyW. " 2?3(A That even pottahdars of Government shall not be
competent to appfy the grounds occupied in husbandry by chupperbund
or khud casht ryots not in balance as to their rent, to raise indigo on,
without the latter's full and free consent."
IX. But on a representation being made by some of the indigo-
planters, that the prohibition in Clause Second, Section VIII. would
prove highly prejudicial to them, and particularly expose them to undue
exactions on the part of the pottahdars of Government; at the same time
that they offered to hold the produce of the indigo crops at all times
bound for the payment of the amount of the contract rates for which they
should have agreed, so as always to prove an adequate security to the pot-
tahdar or pottahdars of Government, for the junnna of the part of his or
their zemindarry or farm planted with indigo; Clause Second, Sec-
tion VIII. was, with a view to the promotion and general increase of
cultivation, declared on the 22nd July, 1794, to be repealed, so far as
that Europeans were pronounced at liberty to enter into contracts, on the
above conditions, with the chupperbund or khud casht ryots, or with put-
teed ars whose puttees might be distinct and separate, and have been
divided off from the pottahdar's part of the estate, for cultivating, sowing,
and rearing the indigo-plant by their own labour, within their respective
limits of cultivation, in the same manner as is allowed to pottahdars under
Section VIII.
Where such indigo cultivation as is described under the first