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2 Copies of the Field Maps.—The tahsil copy of the map has been prepared
3 on backed sheets and is an exact duplicate of the original; but the original is
4 on consecutive sheets throughout the tract under settlement with the result
5 that a small tika which might easily have been plotted on one shect often
6 occupies the corners of four sheets involving waste and demanding extra space
7 for storage: in such cases the talsil copy was prepared on fewer sheets by
8 shifting it downwards or sideways, the shifting being done so as to bring
9 the ruled squares on the copy into agreement with those on the
10 original.
11 The patwari’s copy has been prepared on continuous sheets of long-
12 cloth and shows the lengths of all sides of fields but has not been coloured like
13 the two principal maps; under the standing orders it will be replaced every
14 eight years but I doubt whether this is desirable ; the scale employed is neces-
15 sarily so large that the expense of cloth maps is very great and it is probable
16 that the careful definition of irregular field boundaries would disappear in
17 copies made by the district staff of patwaris.
18 All the maps and copies show the positions of the three fixed points at
19 which stone pillars have been erected.
20 Maps in reverain «reas.—In the Beas riverain exactly the same system
21 was adopted as elsewhere, but stone pillars were erected by the Survey De-
22 partiment on both sides of the river at the corners of squares instead of at the
23 fixed points actually used ; it will thus be possible to lay down the squares cor-
24 responding to those on the maps at any time.
25 16, The system of connected base lines results in the tika maps all lving
26 correcly placed on consecutive sheets and them-
27 selves forming an immense composite map of the
28 wholw tract ; hence no index maps were required in order to prepare composite
29 maps of the tahsils.
30 Composite maps.
31 In Palampur Tahsil the tika maps were reduced directly on toa system:
32 of mapping sheets at tahsil headquarters and the resulting composite map was
33 copied by pantograph to form a map on the scale of ‘four inches to the mile ;
34 this tahsil map shows the boundaries of tikas as well as of mauzas and is the
35 first map of the sort yet produced, In the other two tahsils instead of the first
36 reduction being made direct on to one system of sheets, separate composite
37 maps were prepared for each patwari’s circle with the idea that these would
38 form useful records for the patwari’s use;-these were then compiled into one
39 map on the four inch scale at headquarters.
40 These tahsil maps showing the tika boundaries are the basis of all others
41 and show all sub-divisions, rivers, torrents, roads, buildings, etc., which are
42 required in a map for general us: ; taey are unwieldy in size and reductions
43 have been made on the scale of two miles to the inch which show mauza
44 boundaries but not tika boundaries.
45 A map of the whole of Kangra Proper is still under preparation in
46 which the smaller scale tahisil maps will be combined with the tahsil maps pre-
47 pared in the Dera-Hamirpur settlement.
48 As the tahsils were measured in turn the Nurpur map could not be pre-
49 pared till the very end of the operations ; this fact coupled with the fact that
50 proposals for changes in zail and police-station boundaries are still pending pre-
51 vented the completion of the district map and of handkerchief maps for dis-
52 trict use before the close of the settlement ; a mapper has been trausferred to
53 the Deputy Commissioner’s office with full material for the preparation of
54 these maps which should be ready for reproduction soon after orders have been
55 passed on the pending proposals.
56 17. Statements regarding rights in wells in the usual form have been
57 iLasatie Stee stata drssactions incorporated in the records-of-rights.
58 The only important irrigation, however, is that from small canals or
59 ‘ kuhls”; beyond the classification of fields as irrigated or unirrigated the
60 former records containcd no mention of rights in these. At the 1868 settlement
61 a statement had been added to the record of-rights of each “mauza” giving
62 the names of kuhls from which it received irrigation, the customs concerning”