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A.D. 1824.]
REGULATION 1.
683
have been in the occupation of certain lands adapted to the manufacture,
and hate ail along exercised the privileges of assuming what has appeared
to be fitted for the purpose, the same being at the time of such occupa-
tion wholly, or for the most part, unfit for cultivation, or for yielding
profit by any other means; the above provisions shall not be considered
to apply to the case of these lands, except in so far as they may be spe-
cially declared to extend to them in this or any future Regulation.
An investigation having been instituted, under the orders of
the Governor-General in Council, with a view, first, to determine the
character of the remissions of the land revenue allowed annually, from
the time of the establishment of the present system of manufacture, to
certain zemindars in the districts comprised in the salt agencies of the
Twenty-four Pergunnahs, Jessore, Bhulooah, and Chittagong; and,
secondly, to settle the claims of the zemindars and the officers of the salt
department at the agencies in question respectively, on each other: The
following declarations and rules, calculated for all results of such investi-
gation, are hereby made and enacted, and the Courts of Civil Judicature,
the officers of the salt and land revenue departments, and all other public
authorities, are to be by them guided in their determination of any ques-
tion that may arise as to the right of the officers of the salt department to
occupy salt lands, or other lands required for the purposes of the salt
manufacture, and the rate of compensation to be paid for the same.
The principle upon which remissions were originally made
from the jumma of zemindars, on account of khalaree rents, or the like,
upon the assumption of the salt mehaul, is hereby declared to have been
to relieve those to whom they were granted from an assessment upon
assets, which were transferred to Government on the establishment of the
system of exclusive manufacture, with the rights and interests attached to
the possession of the mehaul.
All zemindars or others, whose claims to remissions were allowed
in the first instance, that is, on account of rents collected by them pre-
viously to the year 1188 B. S., shall be considered to fall within the class
of land-renters who received an abatement of what they then ceased to
collect, upon the principle above laid down; consequently, it is hereby
declared, that the sums remitted to them, will be allowed in perpetuity.
A7/M. The collectors of land revenue, and the Board, are prohibited
henceforward from receiving any applications to obtain credit in the land
revenue collections for any amount claimed as due for khalaree rent, and
from allowing of any abatement or remission whatever from the land
revenue jumma, except the specified remissions allowed on account of
rents collected previously to 1188, or such other as may be hereafter ordered
by the Governor-General in Council.
Any land revenue engager who may prefer a claim to receive rent
for klialarees now worked, or for what may be so henceforward, or for any
that have been worked, and for which the rent of past years may be claimed
to be due, shall be desired to make application to the salt agent, to have
the same adjusted on the principles declared hereafter.
The remissions allowed on account of rents collected previously
to 1188, will still be retained on the revenue books, and will be carried to
the debit of the salt department; but the levy of khalaree rents, bara
cursa, or the like, from the molungees, will be entirely discontinued, and
4 s 2
department, founded
on the result of a spe-
cial inquiry.
To be continued in
perpetuity.
Claims by zemindars
to khalaree rents, how
to be prosecuted.
Collection of khalaree
rents from molungees,
by Government, to be
discontinued.
REGULATION 1.
683
have been in the occupation of certain lands adapted to the manufacture,
and hate ail along exercised the privileges of assuming what has appeared
to be fitted for the purpose, the same being at the time of such occupa-
tion wholly, or for the most part, unfit for cultivation, or for yielding
profit by any other means; the above provisions shall not be considered
to apply to the case of these lands, except in so far as they may be spe-
cially declared to extend to them in this or any future Regulation.
An investigation having been instituted, under the orders of
the Governor-General in Council, with a view, first, to determine the
character of the remissions of the land revenue allowed annually, from
the time of the establishment of the present system of manufacture, to
certain zemindars in the districts comprised in the salt agencies of the
Twenty-four Pergunnahs, Jessore, Bhulooah, and Chittagong; and,
secondly, to settle the claims of the zemindars and the officers of the salt
department at the agencies in question respectively, on each other: The
following declarations and rules, calculated for all results of such investi-
gation, are hereby made and enacted, and the Courts of Civil Judicature,
the officers of the salt and land revenue departments, and all other public
authorities, are to be by them guided in their determination of any ques-
tion that may arise as to the right of the officers of the salt department to
occupy salt lands, or other lands required for the purposes of the salt
manufacture, and the rate of compensation to be paid for the same.
The principle upon which remissions were originally made
from the jumma of zemindars, on account of khalaree rents, or the like,
upon the assumption of the salt mehaul, is hereby declared to have been
to relieve those to whom they were granted from an assessment upon
assets, which were transferred to Government on the establishment of the
system of exclusive manufacture, with the rights and interests attached to
the possession of the mehaul.
All zemindars or others, whose claims to remissions were allowed
in the first instance, that is, on account of rents collected by them pre-
viously to the year 1188 B. S., shall be considered to fall within the class
of land-renters who received an abatement of what they then ceased to
collect, upon the principle above laid down; consequently, it is hereby
declared, that the sums remitted to them, will be allowed in perpetuity.
A7/M. The collectors of land revenue, and the Board, are prohibited
henceforward from receiving any applications to obtain credit in the land
revenue collections for any amount claimed as due for khalaree rent, and
from allowing of any abatement or remission whatever from the land
revenue jumma, except the specified remissions allowed on account of
rents collected previously to 1188, or such other as may be hereafter ordered
by the Governor-General in Council.
Any land revenue engager who may prefer a claim to receive rent
for klialarees now worked, or for what may be so henceforward, or for any
that have been worked, and for which the rent of past years may be claimed
to be due, shall be desired to make application to the salt agent, to have
the same adjusted on the principles declared hereafter.
The remissions allowed on account of rents collected previously
to 1188, will still be retained on the revenue books, and will be carried to
the debit of the salt department; but the levy of khalaree rents, bara
cursa, or the like, from the molungees, will be entirely discontinued, and
4 s 2
department, founded
on the result of a spe-
cial inquiry.
To be continued in
perpetuity.
Claims by zemindars
to khalaree rents, how
to be prosecuted.
Collection of khalaree
rents from molungees,
by Government, to be
discontinued.