Final report of the revised settlement of the Shahpur district, 1894

· 1894 · Public domain (published pre-1930) · archive.org ↗

2the term of settlement should be ten years. To this the Punjab Government

3replied, and His Nonor the Licutenant-Governor gave it as his opinion, that thore

4was nothing in the half net assets estimate to lead him to think that the assegs-

5ment proposed was much below what it ought to be, and he thought that the

6term of the settlement should be the same as in the rest of the distriet. The

7correspondence will be found in Revenue Proceedings Nos. 21 and 22 of August

81893. Finally, the Government. of India agreed that the term of settlement for the

9Kbushib tabsil should be twenty years. This correspondence practically decides

10what the term of settlement should be for the whole district. The Financial

11Commissioner therefore recommends that it be fixed at twenty years from the

12dates given in para 72 of the report, viz. —

13llarvest from which

14Tahsil. Asscssinent Cirele. | the re-assersment

15came into force,

16Bhera ... oa tn ik we Chenab 28 ue Sie we) NRhasdf 1889,

17» Barand Jhelam— ... ibe 6% Rabi 1801,

18Shahpur sie iss eu ws Whole tahstl ui at Sa Kharif 1X92,

19Khushib hee se She ve Plains portion aa a6 we Rabi 1893.

20Hill 4 Bs ats is Kharif 189],

21The revision of settlement should commence in 1909 or in 1910 at latest.

22The Settlement Collector recommendsthat tho next revision of settlement should

23commence in 1908, butas the settlement ofthe whole distriet will not expire till

241912, and Mr. Fryer thinks that the revision should not take more than two

25years, 1909 will probably be quite seen enough to begin the next revision, A

26considerable cnhancement of revenue is certain to be obtained at tho next

27TeVISION,

289, The Financial Commissioner quite agrees with what the Commissioner

29Distribution of assess SAYS in para. 1Z-of his review about the care which the

30ment. Settlement Collector bestowed on the distribution of the

31revenue on holdings. Mv. Wilson’s vensirks in his para. 44 show how thoroughly

32this work Was done. ‘The mode of assessiug dands irrigated by canals, as even-

33tually decided, is to assess all Jands irrigated by canals whether owned by the

34State op by private persons at the same rates as similar unirrigated lauds in the

35circle and then impose an owner's rate, which js called a water advantage rate, of 8

36apnas an sere to be realised from all land actually irvigdted in any given year.

37Onthe small eanals from the Cheudtb river the rate is to he -b anuas an acre

38only.

3910,0 The Financial Commissioner will not follow Mr. Wilson jn his accounts

40Enhancement of revenue OF the manner in which cach cirele in cach talsil was

41as Canal inigation extends, assessed, ‘Phe condition mentioned im para. 7b that all

42land now recorded and assessed as uncultivated shall, if it becomes irrigated by

43a canal, he lable to pay, in addition fo water-rate and water adyvantiye rate, au

44vnirrivated Jand revenuc rate equal to the rate sanctioned for the eirele on

45canal irrigated land in its unirrigated aspect, less any rate that. muy have been

46assexsed on it as waste land: provided that the resulting assessment shall not be

47less than Rs. 50 in any one village, is a very useful one, and one which secure

48to the State a further enhancement of revere as eaual irrigation extends. The

49question of imposing an increased assessmicnt on lands which pass to new

50cultivators is, as the Commissioner says, under separate consideration and need

51not be alluded to here.

5211. As the maps of the regular settlement were not drawn to scale and

53were very Inaccurate, and as waste lands were not surveyed

54at all, it was found necessary to make a complete re-survey

55of the district on the square system, Records of rights in irrigation for wells,

56canals and hill streams have been very carefully drawn up. The Settlement

57Collector recommends that the tax on artizans, which is now levied in 893 out

58of 667 estates and the malbah or tax for village expenses, which is levied by a

59Revision of the record.