Clarke, Richard [Editor]: 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 declarations 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 Arrangementsadopted
be necessary to adopt the surest means of preserving uninjured the rights ^
of the different landholders in the territory called Mogulbundy, being that the revenues for the
part of the zillah of Cuttack in which, according to established usage, as wiiilit^?ectpituMed
in Bengal, the land itself is responsible for the payment of the public and conhrmed,
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
-- .]] rlornands for balances of former years
3 amount of the revenue payable by
)f the year 1211, Umlee (correspond-
)e ascertained and established accord-
rmer years; granting a deduction of
Lbs and other exactions, and allowing
the failure of the first crop of that
revenue of the current year as had
iratta Government.
by the commissioners with respect to
i years 1210 and 1211, Umlee (corre-
1211, Willaity), together with the
remissions of revenue granted by the
eby confirmed.
elative tO the Settlement Of the land Proclamation relative
-y of the ziHah of Cuttack was pub-
304, by the Board of Commissioners, tory, issued by the com-
' missioners on the 15th
September, 1804.

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ack, September 15, 1804.
m of the British Government to adopt,
lee year, such a plan for the settle-
province of Cuttack, as may be most
country and to the happiness of the
he utmost consequence to the success
Brest of the zemindars, talookdars, and
e and terms thereof should be made
hereby given:

[JVEV. 1803,.ww.]