Report On The Land Revenue Settlement Of The Muzaffargarh District Of The Punjab

· 1882 · Public domain (published pre-1930) · archive.org ↗

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2The results of the system, it will be seen, are financially

3favorable, and the system is reported to be popular among

4the people. But, as Mr. O’Brien pointed out in his Reveime

5Report for 18S -8'2, it entails extremely heavy work on tlie

6Tahsfldars ; tln'se at present are efllcient, but one inefliciout

7man would do mmdi towards ruining tlie settlement. Tlie

8Kdnungo e.stablishmenr. has recently been temporarily

9strengthened in order to facilitate the necessary supervision

10of the annual measurement, and the Commissioner of Set-

11tletnents and Agriculture will shortly submit proposals for

12the permanent revision of this establishment.

1312. The main principles of the assessment of the lands

14The of the dependent on canal irrigation have

15canal irrigated lands.

16(i) . — To given fi.xed nsses-sment to all lands irrigated from

17canals at the time of settlement.

18(ii) . — To arrange for due remissions of part or of tlie

19whole of this demand in case of the failure of

20canal irrigation.

21(iii) . — To provide for the levy of a liirht Acreage rate

22fixed at six annas in Sinanwdn and at eigltt

23atinns on tlie other two tahsiU where canal

24inie-jition is extended to wells and jiattfs not

25so irrigatc’d at tlie time of settlement.

26(iv) .— To arrange for the crediting to the Canal

27Department of a due proportion of the fixed

28Land revenue assessed on the canal lands ;

29the proportions fixed upon were two thirds

30of the assessment of lauds watered from

31canals, assisted by wells, and the whole of

32the assessment of lands watered from canals

33alone.

34Major Waco in bi.s review gives full information as

35to the measures which have been taken with reference

36to the above arrangements. The letter from Secretary to

37Government winch sanctioned the extension to MuzalTargarh

38of the Moultan rules for remission of canal revenue is No.

39881 of 12tU August 1881, and the Commissioner of

40Mooltan in his hi o. 161, dated 14th February 1883, reported

41that the rules had been duly promulgated. Major Waoe

42writes that an engagement has been taken from the owners

43of the villages ooncerued accepting these rules as one of the