Clarke, Richard [Hrsg.]: The regulations of the government of Fort William in Bengal in force at the end of 1853 - to which are added, the acts of the government of India in force in that presidency: with lists of titles and an index (1): Regulations from 1793 to 1805 (London, 1854)

A.D. 1800.]

REGULATION VIII.

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XII. A reference to the pergunnah register will also show the measure- Further parts of the
ment and rents of land, whenever the same may have been ascertained, gp^^^e^serConof
and enable the collectors to furnish this information to the Board of the measurement and
Revenue for public sales of land, or otherwise, when required. It will,
therefore, be no longer necessary to inciude either of these items, viz. the
measurement or rents of land, in the registers of estates or of exempted
lands, prescribed by Regulations XIX. XXXVII. and XLVIII. 1793, or
Regulations XIX. XLI. and XLII. 1795 ; and such parts of those Regu-
lations as require the same to be inserted in the registers therein specified
are hereby rescinded.

XIII. In Section II. Regulation XLVIII. 1793, and Regulation XIX. Further explanation
l/9o, prescribing a quinquennial register oi estates paying revenue to term "estate."
Government, it is explained, that " by the term estate is to be understood
any land being malguzarry, or subject to the payment of public revenue,
for the discharge of which a separate engagement has been, or may be,
entered into with Government A But as this definition, strictly construed,
would exclude estates held khas, in consequence of the proprietors having
declined to engage for the public assessment thereupon, under the option
given by the rules for the permanent settlement; as well as the estates of
disqualified proprietors, which by those rules, and by Regulation X. 1793,
were placed under the superintendence of the Court of Wards ; as well as
estates belonging to Government, for the revenue of which no engagement
may have been taken ; and it being intended that all lands paying revenue
to Government should be included in the registers of estates prescribed
by Regulations XLVIII. 1793, and XIX. 1795, it is hereby further
explained, that by the term estate therein used, is to be understood any
land subject to the payment of revenue, for which a separate engagement
may have been executed to Government by the proprietor or by a farmer;
or which may have been separately assessed with the public revenue,
although no engagement shall have been executed to Government, as in
cases where the estate may be held khas by a sezawul or other officer on
the part of Government, or be managed by a serberakar for the benefit of a -
disqualified proprietor.

XIV. The "register of intermediate mutations in landed property," Ail alterations in the
prescribed by Section XVI. Regulations XLVIII. 1793, and XIX. 1795,
was intended to include all alterations in any of the entries in the quin- to be inserted in the
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quennial registers which might take place within the periods at which mutations prescribed
these registers are directed to be prepared : all alterations in the amount In Sfc- xvi. Regs.
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of the annual revenue assessed upon estates should, therefore, be stated xix. 1795.
in the registers of intermediate mutations, whether proceeding from an
allotment of the fixed assessment upon portions of divided estates, in con-
formity to Section X. Regulation 1. 1793, and Section VII. Regula-
tion XXVII. 1795, or from an increase or decrease of the assessment
upon any estate, as fixed at the period of the permanent settlement or sub-
sequently thereto. In all such cases, the particulars of the allotment,
increase, or decrease, are to be clearly stated in the register of interme-
diate mutations ; and whenever an abatement of revenue may be inserted,
the authority for such abatement is to be invariably quoted, with the date
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