Gazetteer Of The Gujrat District 1883-84

· 1884 · Public domain (published pre-1930) · archive.org ↗

1Gujrat District.]

2CIIAP, V,—ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE, 99

3Resv.t oF EXAMINATIONS.

4ee : Upper Lower

5, Middle PP ;

6tion or Primary | Primary

7: School

8agetraiaet | eamlone| pee, | Sones

9tion. tion, tion. tion.

10Total expen-

11Number of] diture on

12pupils, | the school.

13Years,

1412,192

15Table No. XXXVIII gives separate figures for the last five

16years for each of the dispensaries of the Gujrat district. They all

17are under the control of the Civil Surgeon, Gujrdt. ‘The dispensary at

18Gujrat is in immediate charge of an Assistant Surgeon. The others

19are in charge of Hospital Assistants and Native Doctors.

20There is a small but pretty Church at Gujrat, capable of seatin

2124 persons. No Chaplain is posted here. The Chaplain at Jhela

22visits the station once q quarter.

23That portion of the Panj&b Northern State Railway which

24runs through the district is in charge of the Assistant District

25Traffic Superintendent at Jhelam, and the Traffic Superintendent

26Raéwalpindi controls, the traffic department. The head office of the

27former is at Jhelam, and of the latter at Rawalpindi. The Grand

28Trunk Road south of Gujrét is under the Executive Engineer

29Rawalpindi, Provincial Division, assisted by an Assistant Engineer

30stationed at Gujrat, who has charge of the public buildings of the

31district ; and both are subordinate to the Superintending Engineer

32Ist Circle stationd at Rgwalpindi. The telegraph lines and offices

33are controlled by the Chief Superintendent stationed at Amb&la, the

34Post Office by the Inspecting Post Master, Réwalpindi Division, and

35the forests are under the Deputy Conservator, whose head-quarters are

36at Gdjrdnwild, assisted by an Assistant Conservator, who also at

37present resides at Gijranwala.

38SECTION B—LAND AND LAND REVENUE.

39The Sikh Government took all they could extract from the

40cultivator, relaxing in favour of the headmen, who assisted them in

41the process. To these they gave indms, or what comes to the same

42thing, they exempted a plough or two of their cultivation from assess-

43ment ; and these headmen on their part managed the revenue for

44Government, and village affairs for the community generally ; from

45the latter they collected malba to defray the village expenses, perhaps

46something more, which was illicit. They would manage the waste

47lands, call in cultivators, &c. These men were thus raised considerably

48above the rest of the community in rank and influence. The almost

49universal custom was to pay in grain, the Government portion being

50assessed by kankiit, or batdi. In later times, sometimes money

51leases would be given, or fixed money-rates on ploughs, or on the

52bigah, levied, but instances of this kind were exceptional, and rarely

53Chapter V, B.

54Land and Land

55Revenue.

56Gujrat District

57School.

58Medical.

59Ecclesiastical,

60Head quarters of

61other dopartments.

62The Sikh system,