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REGULATION XLII.
[A.D. 1803.
[WZPV77. 1793^7
F777. 1800, ^77]
Explanation of the
[^VLF777.1793, 77]
Proprietors to name
their estates, in the
event of their not hav-
the rules contained in that Regulation, and to adord to Government the
means of tracing every deviation from those rules, that there should be
kept a register of all estates paying revenue to Government, of the annual
revenue charged upon each of them, and of the names of the proprietors,
and also of the transfer of estates or portions of estates, and of the allot-
ment of the public revenue upon such portions, and of the union of estates
which may have originally formed parts of the same zemindary, talook, or
other land tenure; and that every such union, and all such transfers,
divisions, and allotments of the public revenue, which have taken place
since the commencement of the settlement formed under the proclama-
tion issued by the Honourable the late Lieutenant-Governor and the
Board of Commissioners, under date the 14th of July, 1802, or which may
hereafter occur, should be traceable with facility and certainty at any
future period : And whereas it is also requisite for financial purposes,
and for the information of the Courts of Judicature from or to whose
jurisdictions any districts or lands may be transferred or annexed, that
there should be a record of the transfer of all districts or lands from the
jurisdiction of one zillah to that of another : And hereas it is necessary
to provide for a separate general register of lands, whether subject to or
exempted from the payment of public revenue, according to their situation
within the pergunnah or other established local division to which they are
respectively annexed, for the purpose of exhibiting, in a connected view,
the state of the pergunnahs or other local divisions of the country, several
of which, in some instances, are included in one estate, whilst in others a
pergunnah comprises many distinct estates, or several small estates and
portions of -estates, situated in different pergunnahs : the following rules
have been accordingly enacted.
II. 7V?\sL Every five years, the collectors of the land revenue in the
several zillahs in the provinces ceded by the Nawaub Vizier to the English
East-India Company shall prepare a register of all the estates in their
respective zillahs, of whatever denomination or description, the proprietors
of which pay the public jumma or revenue assessed upon their estates
immediately to Government.
By the term estate is to be understood any land subject to the
payment of public revenue, for the discharge of which a separate engage-
ment has been or may be entered into with 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 Govern-
ment, 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.
III. The names of the estates in each zillah shall be arranged according
to the amount of the annual jumma assessed on each estate, commencing
with the estate yielding the most considerable revenue to Government.
IV. and V. [&M72C W E. Ah7 4777.1793.]
VI. Estates that have not been distinguished by any particular appella-
tion shall be named by the proprietor or proprietors, and shall henceforth
REGULATION XLII.
[A.D. 1803.
[WZPV77. 1793^7
F777. 1800, ^77]
Explanation of the
[^VLF777.1793, 77]
Proprietors to name
their estates, in the
event of their not hav-
the rules contained in that Regulation, and to adord to Government the
means of tracing every deviation from those rules, that there should be
kept a register of all estates paying revenue to Government, of the annual
revenue charged upon each of them, and of the names of the proprietors,
and also of the transfer of estates or portions of estates, and of the allot-
ment of the public revenue upon such portions, and of the union of estates
which may have originally formed parts of the same zemindary, talook, or
other land tenure; and that every such union, and all such transfers,
divisions, and allotments of the public revenue, which have taken place
since the commencement of the settlement formed under the proclama-
tion issued by the Honourable the late Lieutenant-Governor and the
Board of Commissioners, under date the 14th of July, 1802, or which may
hereafter occur, should be traceable with facility and certainty at any
future period : And whereas it is also requisite for financial purposes,
and for the information of the Courts of Judicature from or to whose
jurisdictions any districts or lands may be transferred or annexed, that
there should be a record of the transfer of all districts or lands from the
jurisdiction of one zillah to that of another : And hereas it is necessary
to provide for a separate general register of lands, whether subject to or
exempted from the payment of public revenue, according to their situation
within the pergunnah or other established local division to which they are
respectively annexed, for the purpose of exhibiting, in a connected view,
the state of the pergunnahs or other local divisions of the country, several
of which, in some instances, are included in one estate, whilst in others a
pergunnah comprises many distinct estates, or several small estates and
portions of -estates, situated in different pergunnahs : the following rules
have been accordingly enacted.
II. 7V?\sL Every five years, the collectors of the land revenue in the
several zillahs in the provinces ceded by the Nawaub Vizier to the English
East-India Company shall prepare a register of all the estates in their
respective zillahs, of whatever denomination or description, the proprietors
of which pay the public jumma or revenue assessed upon their estates
immediately to Government.
By the term estate is to be understood any land subject to the
payment of public revenue, for the discharge of which a separate engage-
ment has been or may be entered into with 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 Govern-
ment, 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.
III. The names of the estates in each zillah shall be arranged according
to the amount of the annual jumma assessed on each estate, commencing
with the estate yielding the most considerable revenue to Government.
IV. and V. [&M72C W E. Ah7 4777.1793.]
VI. Estates that have not been distinguished by any particular appella-
tion shall be named by the proprietor or proprietors, and shall henceforth