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. 1805.]

REGULATION XII.

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tack : And whereas the principles of justice and good faith require that
the deciarations made by the late Board of Commissioners to the several
descriptions of zemindars, talookdars, farmers, and other holders of land,
should be formally recognised and confirmed: And whereas it has been
judged to be advisable to extend the Regulations in force for the settle-
ment and collections of the public revenue in the province of Bengal, with
certain modifications and exceptions, to the zillah of Cuttack: the follow-
ing rules have been enacted, and are to be in force from the period of the
promulgation of this Regulation.
II. On taking possession of the country, the commissioners deemed it to
be necessary to adopt the surest means of preserving uninjured the rights
of the different landholders in the territory calied Mogulbundy, being that
part of the zillah of Cuttack in which, according to established usage, as
in Bengal, the land itself is responsible for the payment of the public
revenue, and in which every landholder holds his lands subject to the
conditions of that usage. With this view, the commissioners issued a
publication, signifying that all those persons who were in possession of the
lands at the close of the Umlee year 1210 (corresponding with the Wil-
laity year 1210) should continue in possession during the year 1211. The
commissioners also declared all demands for balances of former years
to be cancelled, and they ordered the amount of the revenue payable by
the respective zemindars on account of the year 1211, Umlee (correspond-
ing with the Willaity year 1211) to be ascertained and established, accord-
ing to the rate of the receipts of former years; granting a deduction of
the amount of^some oppressive abwaubs and other exactions, and allowing
for losses sustained by the ryots from the failure of the first crop of that
season, and also for such part of the revenue of the current year as had
been previously collected by the Mahratta Government.
III. The arrangements adopted by the commissioners with respect to
the settlement of the revenue for the years 1210 and 1211, Umlee (corre-
sponding with the years 1210 and 1211, Willaity), together with the
abatements from the jumma and the remissions of revenue granted by the
commissioners in those years, are hereby confirmed.
IV. The following proclamation relative to the settlement of the land
resume in the Mogulbundy territory of the zillah of Cuttack was pub-
lished on the 15th of September, 1804, by the Board of Commissioners,
in virtue of the powers vested in them.
" PROCLAMATION.—Cuttack, September 15, 1804.
" Whereas it is the intention of the British Government to adopt,
at the expiration of the present Umlee year, such a plan for the settle-
ment of the landed revenue of the province of Cuttack, as may be most
conducive to the prosperity of the country and to the happiness of the
inhabitants : And whereas it is of the utmost consequence to the success
of the measure, as well as to the interest of the zemindars, talookdars, and
all others concerned, that the nature and terms thereof should be made
known as early as possible, notice is hereby given:

Arrangements adopted
by the commissioners
for the settlement of
the revenues for tbe
years 1210 and 1211

Proclamation relative
to the land revenue in
the Mogulbundy terri-
tory, issued by the com -
September, 1804.

[ALtrV. 1803, .iw.],