INDEX TO THE ANNtJAL REPORT OF THE -DEPARTMENT OF LAND RECORDS IN THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, INCLUDING BIND, FOR THE YEAR 1918·19. · -.-....._ l '. . . . PAIL\GEL\PHS. CONTEN~S. I /'J.GEI. Letter No: A. D.-~0, dated 1st J?ecemher 1919, from A. !f: W. / J Ma.ck1e, EsqUJre, :M.A., I. C. S., Ag. Settlement CommiSsioner : and Director, Land Records-Submitting to Government the 1 Annual Report of the Department of Laud Records for the -; I \ year 1918-19 ...... • t '\..H' 1 \ CHAPTER I.-PREFATORY. \, ./· · Officers of j;he staff . . ; • .. . .. • •.. 1-'J--...-" 1 Tour of the Settlement Commissioner and Director of Land Records, 3 1 Tours of the Superintendents of Land Records 4 1 CHAPTER II.-LA:s-n REcORDS EsTABLISHMENTS. 5 1 Establishment under Divisional Superintendents 0 Training of J nnior Civili:Lns ... · r.,. ~ Training of District Inspectors ... I •• Training of Circle Inspectors· ... 8-lO 2 Training of Village Accountants 11 2-3 ... 12-16 3-4 · District Survey Offices ... 17-18 4-5 District Inspectors , · 5 Routine Mea.suren;1ent Work .. 1\J-21 22 I) Fixed Fee System 1 ... 23-24 6 Circle Inspectors ·.. - • • • • .. I> Inspection by Sub-Di~sional Officers and Mamlatdars 25 ·~: 26-27 7 Boundary Marks Bepa~rs ••• ... 28-2\J 7 Boundary Disputes·. · ...... • ...... 30-:J;i 7-8 Sub;Division Survey, Northem.J?l.VISion ··· ... 34-3G. 8-() · · Do. · Central Dlvlsion · ... 9-10 - Do. Southern Division ... 37-40 41 10--11 ' Maintenance pf Sub-Division Sury~Y. ... ' 42 11 General remarks regarding. Sub-DlVlsion Survey ... CHAPTER m.-SuRVEY AND SETTLEMENT. 43 11 --Revenue Survey Work; Northern Division ' 44 11-12 Talukdari Suxvey ... ' ·•· 45 12 Miscellaneous Surveys · ...... 46 12 Revenue Survey "Work, Central D1v!s:o~ ... 47 12-13 · . , Do. · ·· Southern DIVJBI~n.. 43 13 Revenue Settlement ,,Vork, NorthernDP!~ 810n 49 13 . Do. . · Central Jv~s1_o~ 50 13 , Do. • _ · · . Southern D!VIston .... 51 13-14 City Surveys, Northern p~~sion 52 14 - U l Do. . Central DIVISlOn ... 53 I 14 Do. Southern Division ... 54-55 14-U General Remarks ·... · ... 56 15 Photozincographic Office -f" CHAPTER IV.-RECOBD OF RIG:S:TS. . .. · · C tra.l d Southern Divisions ... 57-61 15-17 Record of Bights in Northern, en an ... 62 17 Records Inspection ·•• ... 63-67 18-19 General Remarks ... APPENDIQES. . . waste boundary marks and otbt·r Stat~ent ~o. I-ShoWJ';lg crop,b Cir~le Inspectors ·•• . :·· 20 mspection work carn~d out Y asurement and classification Statement No. II-Showm1 lf6 :~ors and other establishment work performed by Cu:c 6 nsp t work ...... deputed on routine m~asure~:t of Village Officers" and Circle Statement No. ,III-:-ShoWJngStlb-Divisional Officers and Mamlat· Inspectors work by u • :...... ''·' dars ... , • ·the details of work done by the Statement No. IV-Show1ng d ... District Inspectors of Land llecor- s
~oin-a INDEX. II PART III OF THE LAND REVENUE ADMINISTRATION REPORT 01!' THE PROVINCE OF SIND. p "-llAGIIAPI!a. PAOla. Proposals for re-settlement ... 1 24 Work done by the Head Record Office . ... 2-3 24-2; Inspection of the Record Office by the Snpermtendent of Land Records ...... • . .. 4 25 Special establishment and the work done by it and City Survey of the town of Shikarpur ...... 5 2.i Superintendent's test of measurement work .. . 6 25 Survey class for the Revenue Officers ... 7 25 Cost of the Land Records Department ... 8 ~5 Introduction of Record of Rights ... 9' 25 Re-writing of Record of Rights ...... 10 25-26 Maintenance of Record of Rights ... 11 26 APPENDICES. Appendix B-Work done by the Head Record Office in connection with land reserved for special purposes, Survey Registers and Map ... · 27 Appendix C-Showing work done in the Record Office in connec tion with new measurements done by village establishment ...... 28 Appendix D-Showing the test of Tapedar's and Supervising Tapedar's inspection work by the Sub-Divisional Officers ...... 28 ~~ ,....'4Ll "- I '
No. A.D.-90.
Poona, 1st December 1919. From A. W. W. MACKIE, EsQ., M.A., I. C, S., Ag. · Settlement Commissioner and Director of Land Records •· To THE CHIEF ~ECRETARY To GOVERNMENT ' ' Revenue Depart'ment, Bombay. Sir, ' I have the honour of submitting the Annual Report of the 'Department of . Settlement and Land Records for the year ending 31st July 1919. CHAPTER I. PREFATORY. ' ' 1. The charge of the Department was held by Mr.· F. G. H. Anderson I. c: 8., from 1st August 1918 ~0. 21st February 1919, except for an interval of 51 · d,ays . ":hen he was: on prlVllege leave and Mr. A. M. Macmillan, ~· C. S., offimated. For the rest of the year I have acted as Settlement Commissioner and Director of Land Records. · 2. The late MrS. E. Reuben was in charge of the Northern 'Division as Superintendent of Land Records, from 1st August 1918 to 3rd November i918 when he fell ~ victim to influenza at Thana, where he had gone on duty, .For the rest of the year Mr. C. D:Kavi was in charge. In the Central and Southern Divisions, Messrs. V. B. Mardhekar' and A. R. Dalal, respectively were Superintendents throughout the year. ' 3. Mr. Anderson visited Bombay,Kalyan, Thana, Kurla, Bandra, Panvel Deolali, Ahmedabad, Mahad, W ai, Barsi, Sholapur, Bijapur, Padag, Hubli and Sa tara and other minor places, mainly , to inspect city surveys in progress or under maintenance, suburban surveys, District Survey Offices, and the working of the new revenue accounts, in addition to the inspection of Registra tion offices. He also looked into the working of the Huzur and Taluka record 'rooms under the slip system of correspondence and filing and the direc tions in the compilation of A.B.C.D. Lists. After I took charge I toured in Dharwar, Belgaum, Satara, Ahmednagar, Surat,. Broach, Thana and Ratnagiri Districts, and visited Bombay, working on the same lines as my predecessor. · . · . 4. The Superintendents toured actively an~ extensi':e~y. in their divisio~, controlling and testing the work of the field pa~Ies, subdiVIBI?n surveys, mty and village site surveys; aud the Record of Rights, and carrymg out the usual inspection of the. District Survey Offices. . CHAPTER II. Land Records Establishments. · 5. The establishments under the control of th? Divisio~al Suprintend~nts were the staffs of the District Survey Offices, .t~e. Field Parties, t~e establish ments for city surveys and the surve;v of sub-divlSions ; and the special measurers appointed in most districts for routme measurement work. Under the control of the Superintendents these est:J.blishments wer~ supervised by the District Inspectors everywhere· also by one Deputy Supermtendent an~ one Survey . Mamlatdar in the So~thern Division, two Survey ~ai_D~atdars m the Central Division, and two Head Surveyors. in the North~~ DIVIsion. Eac~ of thc~e officers supervises a large· establishment. cons1st~ng of many parties, each m charge of a head man immediately respons1ble for 1ts work . .. 83-1 'l'mining of Junior Civilians. . 6, There \Yero no junior civilians. to be trained i~ survey ?-Dd settlement matters during the year. One probat1~n~r.Y Deputy C?llector m the Northern Division and another in the Southern DIVISion were tramed by the respective Superintendents. Trai11ing of District Inspectors. , 7. In HJ16 and 1917 as a measure of war economy and because there were only a few men to ·be trained, no class ":as held for training District Inspectors. By 1!)~8 a class had b~come ve_ry ~esirable as we cannot possibly dispense with tec~m?al know~edge m our J?Istnct Inspe~tors, and by th:tt. time a fair number of JUnwrs required to be tramed. Accordm~ly under sanct10n of Government Order, Hevenue Department, No. !J429 of 18th September 1918 a class was held from 24th September to 26th October Hll8 in theodolite and pl~ne table work, under the charge of Mr. B. R. Joshi, Lecturer, College of Engineer ing, Poona. Five District Inspectors, one Head-quarter Assistant from the Central Record Office, Ahmedabad, one clerk from my office, and one each from the offices of the Superintendents of Land Records, Northern and Central Divi sions, attended. All gained certificates of qualification. Training of Circle Inspectors. 8. Owing to financial stringency and the claims of famine work, no classes were held for the training of Circle Inspectors in survey but in accord ance with Government Order, Revenue Department, No. 12027 d(tted 11th November 1919, I have made arrangements for classes in the ensuing fair season. In these classes a thorough practical training in the methods of survey in actual use is given, and now that under Go\·ernment Order No. 10345, dated 3rd October 1919, all routine measurement work is being assigned to special measurer Circle Inspectors, the object of the class is to bring the staff of special measurers up to full strength and efficiency with the least possible delay. !J. These classes for measurer Circle Inspectors will not be necessary in future. So long as the ordinary Circle Inspectors had to do measurement work, and new Circle Ihspectors were continually being appointed, annual classes for training them quickly in survey were necessary. But the measurer Circle Inspectors will change much less frequently, and a,ny training of new men that is necessary can be done in connexion with the various establishments referred to in paragraph 5 above, for which we annually train new recruits. Indeed it is highly probable that~ in future the measurer Circle Inspectors will be mainly recruited .from these establishments. · . _ 10 _ The extent to which the ordinary Circle Inspectors will hereafter be tramed m survey has yet to be determined (Government Order, Revenue D_epartment, No. 1073 dated 29th January 1!:117). Meanwhile in accordance w1th the remarks made by Government in paragraph 4 of their review o~ ~he report of the Department for 1915-16 as to the desirability of special trammg f~r ~ircle Inspectors in their duties, classes for the purpose have been held in ei~ht distncts, and proposals have been submitted to Government for the extensiOn of ~he scheme to all_district?· Such training in survey as it is found advisable to Impart to the ordmary C1rcle Inspectors will be given in these classes. Training of Village Accountants. ~1. No classes were.held during the year. In the Northern Division the !alatrs of Anand and Pardi talukas have been trained in plane table survey, a~d m the latt~r· taluka they did some measurement work during the r.c~r! but III Anand famme work demanded all their energies. In the Central DIVIsiOn the trained talatis did nci new measurement work. In the Southern Division the · talatis of Bankapur, Hubli and Gadag talukas who were trained measured 1,487 hissas altogether, and got a fee of annas five per hissa. Village account· an~s as a class do not like doing measurement work and ·require constao ' s~nct and close supervision if they are to be made to d~ it with sufficient promp titude and accuracy. In Sind the measurement work . is assigned to the tapadar (village accountant), but my three and a half years' experience of the way in which he does it does not incline me to advocate the introduction of. the same system in the Presidency proper. However I need not go f?.rther Ill~~ the matter, because the results of this experiment in training talatis for su ').... '""1,
division. measurement '\ork, and the question of continuing and extending it, h~v~ ~heady bee.n fully discussed by my predecessor and the Commissioners of DivlSlons, and m Governm~nt Resolution No. 10345, dated 3rd October 191!".1, ~overnment have .fina~~ deCided to abandon the experiment and to adopt the nv~l plan. of mau~tamrng. a special staff for all routine measurement work. This plan IS now bemg put rnto execution. District Survey Offices. 1~. The Central Record Office, Ahmedabad, was inspected both by thu 'Supermtendent _and by Mr. Al!-derson. The cases involving corrections of surve;r records d1sposed of by this office number 841leaving a balance of 581, of whiCh 290 had been referred back to the districts concerned. l\fiscelbneous oases disposed of were 6,077leaving a balance of 277. · It is noticeable that arrears in correction work have risen slirrhtly since last year when they amounted to 507 cases. This is explained by" the facts thnt ( 1) one man was employed in preparing akarbands of Matar and l\Iehmadabad talukas, ( 2) another was employed in agreeing the abstracts of village form I and of. _the akar~ands, it having come to light that generally . throughout the Presidency th1s necessary agreement had not been maintained as changes in detail occurred; and ( 3) the staff was employed in preparing kamjasti patraks consequent on the permanent remissions of himayat assess ment in 54 villages of Broach and Surat Districts. The arrears would have been heavier but for the fact that some help was obtained from the Gutarat Field Party which joins the office in the monsoon to carry out its own recess . work. ' Realisation of fee.s from the extracts ot"survey papers and sttle of maps aomounts to Rs. 712-4-4. Twenty-two temporary men were employed from August 1918 till 1st of November 1919 for the preparation of the kayamkhardas and the Central Re ~ord Office copies of village form I of the Matar and Mehm~dabad talukas, for which 2nd revision settlement rates have been sanctioned. Sixteen more temporary men were entertained from July till N ovember.1919 for writing the village copy of village form I. The work has no_w been completed. The office is ·an the whole efficiently managed, but on looking into tho ·progress of correction work throughout the year I found tllat thou!lh tho number of cases finally disposed of was only 841, there were never fewer than 200 on reference back to the districts and in a certain month this number rose to 335. The· Superintendent has loo}l:ed in~o the matter and finds of course . that the District Inspectors send on c;ases without proper scrutiny and the Central Record Office returns cases ~mnecessarily. Next year's figures will show the result of the action taken. 13. The District Survey Office, Thana, was inspected by the Superintend ent and Mr. Anderson. 'l'his office disposed of 348 cases of correction of survey records leaving a balance of 254 cases as ag~inst 247 in tile preceding y~ar. Miscellaneous cases disposed of were 1,99~ le~vmg_ 273 outstandmg as a~ttmst 241 in the preceding year. ~ne hand m!l'mtamed. m the off?.ce from.t~e 'Ihana pot hissa. survey party for d1sposal of discrepanCies found m pot h1ssa survey disposed of 113 cases of 134 villages, leaving a balance of 36 such cases for tho district. Rs. 805-6-5 were realised by _the ~ale of ~aps and extracts from survey records .. · The working of this office. Is still_u~satJsfactory. I ~ave not mJ'~elf inspected it, but the Super.intendent IS of opmwn i.hat the ~e~1letl super~lSJ_ou has been inadequate. It IS also a fact that, apparently owm 0 to the prox1~1~y · of Bombay, where high wages are obtainable! ~e standard of clerk we obtam ~n Thana is lower than- elsewhere. For a similar rea~OJ~ the surv~y work ~n Thana is inferior, and the men are pro~e to throw up their JOb~. The_mcrease m the pa of orne members of the Distnct Survey Office sanctwned m Govern ment Jrde:, Financial J?epar~ment, No. 55~2 date~ 12th September 1!}19, will, I hope, result in appreciable Improvement 1~ the "ork. The work of agreeing the abstracts of v1page form I and of the akarbands was carried out by a temporary hand entertamed for 3 months. 14. In the Central Division all the District Survey
satisfactory, except in Ahmcdnagar. whe~·e it wa~ h~rdly up to the required standard. A special hand was entertamed m each d1stnct for the reconciliatioll of the abstracts of village form I and of the akarbands. Th~se offices which were notorious for arrears in the past ha-ve greatly benefited from the intra. duction by Mr. Anderson of the Tab and Pigeon Hole systems, . which enn.ble the work to be controlled, watched and carried on with the maximum of en.se and expedition. Sholapur office was inspected by Mr. Anderson, and Ahmednagar by me. The District Survey O.ffices in Po~na, Satal:a, Na9a.r,_ Nasik and ~holapur bad become congested w1th work mnng to the subdivlSlon survey brmging to liO'ht mistakes in the original calculations of area and assessment and in other d~tails which mistakes had necessarily to be corrected. To dispose of this extra .;ork these offices were each given tho temporary aid of a 'phalni karkun' for the necessary period. Also, acquisition of land for the Nira Right Bank Canal, Poona-Purandhar Road,.Barsi Light Railway, and conversion of lands into building sites round about Poena, and redistribution, on· a geographical basis, of the scattered lands of eight villages in Satara, neces sarily entailed much extra. work in the District Survey Offices concerned, for which adequate temporary assistance was provided. 15. The Superintendent of Land Records, S.D., inspected all the District Survey Offices in his division .. Bijapur office was inspected by Mr. Anderson, and Belgaum and Dharwar offices by me. The work of the year was disposed qf with creditable expedition in spite of several of the offices, particularly those of Bijapur and Dharwar, having been seriously dislocated for a time by the influenza epidemic. In this division the heavy work of agreeing the abstracts of village fopn I and of the akarband~ wa11 carried through without any extra staff. Nevertheless arrears of all kinds of work were reduced by about 25 per' cent., the figures being 1,023 as compared with 1,313 for the preceding year. The arrears amount to five weeks' "work and can be disposed of along with the current work before the close of the ra.fns. · lG. The work in the District Survey Offices has greatly increased owing to the subdivision survey. So far temporary help has been given where neces sary in order to prevent accumulation of arrears. The work of subdivision survey is now drawing to a close but it is evident that when it is finished the correction work in the District Survey Offices will remain much greater in amount than it used to be, because the number of papers and maps to be corrected in each case will have increased. To balance this increase we have the improved methods and organisation introduced by Mr. Anderson, and the help in the rains of the special measurers now being appointed in accordance with Government Resolution No. 10345 dated 3rd October 1919. It is impossible to say for certain, but I think that;' if a sufficient number of special .measurers is · appointed to ensure that tbey can do all their field ~or:k; in 7 months and thl!s spend five months in the District Survey Office, there, will be· no difficulty m keeping the work up to date. Time will show. District Inspectors. 17. With the extension of the activities of the Department the duties a?d responsibilities of these officers have greatly increased. It is no doubt eas1er for a man who gives his mind to his work to be a successful District Inspector than to be ~ successful 1\famlatdar and Magistrate, but at least the successful District Inspector must have a tum for survey work or the determination to do it faithfully; he must be a technical expert, and a conscientious, thorough ~nd energetic routine. worker, both in the field and in the office. His superi?rs have little difficulty in" spotting" slack work on his part, and it is interestmg to see how obviously the falling off in interest,·which sometimes occurs when a man is weary of his spell in the Land Records Department, betmys itself. I have. not been long enough at the head in this Department to see the work of the majority of District Inspectors. Mr. Joshi ( Sholapur), comroende_d by the Superintendent, C.D., has a sound knowledge of the technical side of his work. Mr. Gilganchi (Belgaum) has got good work done in the District Surv~y Office and City Survey Office, but his inspection work, though improved 1~ still insufficient. Tho Superintendent, N. D., specially mentions Mr. Desal (Ahmedabad), Mr. Joshi (Panch Mahals) and M (!h kl (<' 2 72 uperintendent C D Mr Ka k r. 0 u · a DUrat) · and tho S ' · ., · rmar ar (Nas'k)1 M J h' ( ' . Mr. Kulkarni (Sa tara). . • r. os 1 West Khandosh) and
18. Statement IV of appendix A. sh 8 th . by the District Inspectors, In the 00 d.~:-" ~ ~anttty of routine work dono their inspection work were much ~~;{ns d .:hyear,dcert~in branches of instance, for the great decrease in num ere WI • an this a?counts, for most districts. The District Ins her of. boundary marks mspected in the figures {or Dharwar (Mr. Go~:i~) ~~Nasi~ has been v.ery energetic; but remark made last year. In Kolaba R e. a.gam P~_or, desptte the adverse have been devoted to inspection wo:k. atnagm and BIJapur more days onght to
' . ·Routine Measurement work. 10. Throughout the Northern Division th d' . . have been relieved of measurement work which ~s· or m~ry bucle mspo~tors deput~d to it. In Thana, Surat and 'Broach 1 t now one y men speCially employed. In Panch Mahals and Ah d b d emporary measurers were f d · · - me a a one man was taken from the staff o odr mGary cue1 e Itnspect~rs. In Kaira one special measurer was entertained un. er overnmen sa~o.tt~n (G.R., R.D., No. 2500 dated 11th March l!JlO). . In the ~ent.ral Divl~Io~ special measurers were employed under Govern ~en~ sanctiOn m all distriCts· except Poona and Ahmednagar. In these two distncts the measurement work was done by the ordinary circle inspectors. ; . In the Southern Division, field party surveyors or special duty circle mspectors were e~ploye.d in. all districts except Kolaba, where the work was ~e_ft to th~ ordm.ary c~rcle Inspectors. The Commissioner issued a circular requmng ordinary ~ucle mspectors everywhere to dispose of 2 measurement cases a month, but It was not complied with anything like fully. · 20. ·s~atement II shows the measurement and classification· work done by these estabhsh~ents and the General Duty Inspector in each district. Arrears have decreased m _B,roach, SU:rat, East Kha~desh, West Khandesh; Belgaum, Dharwar, Ra~nagm, .and Kanara. · The mcrease elsewhere is not to be . wo~dered at m the Circumstances of the season and is serious only in Thana,
Ka1ra and Poona. . ' - 21. Now that in Government Order No. 10345 dated 3rd October 1!J19 it h~s been finally decided thn.t special measurers should. everywhere b~ appomted for measurement work; the system of special measurers will be ex~nded. uniformly to all districts and placed on a permanent footing. No men from the Revenue Department proper ought tube appointed to these posts against their will, since experience has amply shown that such men will not · work well or' willingly,' and will be perpetually trying to secure transfer to the cleri{!alline. The Land Records Department with its large staffs of skilled measurers, and facilities for thoroughly training recruits, will be able to supply all the men required in a short time; and these men, whose prospects will lie solely withi:p. the survey sphere, will work contentedly. A separate cadre is being formed for each district. The prospects of the men will be rather poor if there is not a clear way open to them to higher posts, and I am afraid that in some districts promotions will be very. slow. If these posts were formed into one cadre for each division the flow of promotion would be steady; and if further they were amalgamated with the cadre of field party surveyors, the prospects of the men would be greatly widened and improved. A really competent man would sea his way clear to a post carrying a pay of Rs. GO to Rs. 100, and selected men would rise still higher. Su~h a scheme has the defect that it loosens the control over _the men and their work of the local revenue .officers who are interested in getting measurement work done, and to whom the publi~ naturally go with their complaints. Th~ matter will be dis cussed with the Commissioners, if necessary. Even With n. separate cadre for each district we shall still be able to get an adequate suppl~ of ~en who will do the work far better than it has ever been done befo!e-It requues very · ordinary ability-and I do not think it will be found ve~y difficult. to lay down a road to higher appointments for such of the men as display theu fitness for them, without impairing the control of the local officer; over the local staff.
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Fi:ud Fee System. 22. During the year the application of the system under which fees fixed according to a prescribed sca.le ar~ charged f~r measuren~ent work done on the application of private parttes was taken m hand (mde Government Orde Financial Depn.rtment, No. 71 d~te~ 7th J~nuary 1919). The scheme coul~ not be introduced in all. the d1s~ncts durmg the.yea~, as ~he fe~s necessarily vary from district to distnct, ~nd t1me was O?cup~ed. 111 di~cussmg with the various Collectors the appropnate scale for their distncts. The ~ystem has by now been introduced everywhere, and saves a ~reat deal of ~vork m the District Survey and other offices. The scales prescnbed have still t'o stand the test of experience. Cir~le Inspectors. 23. Statement I shows the work done by these officials. I have received no comments on their work from the Collectors. The diversion of their ener. gies to special work arising out of the scarcity reduced . the amount· of routine work do!le in some districts, and it cannot be expected that the figures should be normal. The small amount of test of record of rights work in Broach and Panch Mahals, for instance, is presumably so explained. On the other hand, it is natural that in such a year the amount of tagai work inspection everywhere increased enormously; and that vital statistics received special attention. . A comparison of the figures of column 5 with those of last year indicates that there has been a much needed increase in activity in Panch ·Mahals, Poona, Kolaba and Kanara districts; but l am doubtful bow far the figures are reliable-those of Kanara for last year (14•4) must be wrong. That the amount of inspection work done in the Panch Mahala and Poona-and especially in the former-has nevertheless decreased is no doubt due to the men having been employed on famine duties. 24. The amount of inspection work done in Ratnagiri seems .poor, and I think, a great deal more. inspection of village forms VI and VII might have been done. The average number of days devoted to inspection work is low and might well be increased. In these two forms about 19,000 entries were tested. Invillage form VI the total number of entries for the whole district is 681,027. These most important forms are, I should think, in a worst state in this district than anywhere else in the Presidency, and improvement is.very desirable. ~t the same time the work is especially complicated. In his last report on this subject the Superintendent of Land Records, S.D., pointed out that one ?f t?e commonest defects is the omission of mutations due to inheritance, the D1stnct ~pector in the course of his inspection having discovered 240 such omissions m one taluka alone. In a few minutes the Superintendent found' 9 such omissions in a very small village. Another common defect is the neglect to note redemption of mortgages; and hundreds of mutations are (or were>. allo~ed to accumulate unentered because of discrepancies between the registra.twn abstracts and the record of rights. It is well within the competence ~f Circ~e Inspectors to correct such mistakes and as the pot hissa survey has been JO progress in this district there . has 'been a most valuable opportunity of methodically detecting and correcting mistakes, but, as I have remarked b.elow, full advantage does not appear to have been taken of it.. At. the same time I must add that the number of entries tested by Circle Inspectors is 2,000 more ~han in the prece~ing year; and that the test by :M:amlatdars shows great Imp.rovezp.ent. I mfer from these facts that attention was given to the ~ecord durmg the year, but the impetus came too late for its full effect to appear m the statistics. This impetus must be maintained. 25. Statement III shows the inspection done by Sub-Divisional Offic~rs and Mamlatdars. The figures are of course abnormal for most districts, owi~g to the year being one of scarcity. The work of the Sub-Divisional Officers 10 East Khandesh and Ratnagiri appears to be inadequate. The work o{ the Mamlatdars in Kolaba seems poor and the return of test of record of rights by them is so low that I pre~ume the figures. must be wrong. In East. Khandesh the Mamlatdars might have done more record of rights test. The Ma~latdars of Ratnagiri show a needed improvement over last year all along the lme; and those of 6atara have once more done very well. 7 Bounda1·y Marks Repairs. 26. As may be seen from column 11 of stat. t I · districts the year's .programme of boundary marks repa~~e~as eilfue~o~~o~~ tho su.s~e?ded or,curtailed ~n account of the unfavourable season. In the No~t~: DIVISIOn the o~~ J?ark syst~m continues to find favour with the rayats. In ~he gentr~. J?lyisioh both ~he old and new systems are in vogue, while in the . ou ern !VISIOn t e wo!~ 1s done according to the 'one mark • system in Belga~m, Dha.rwar and BIJapur; and 19 villages in Kanara were again selected for thJs exper1m~nt. The Superintendent reports "As this experiment h alr~ady b~~n carr~ed out. f?r four ye~rs it is h1gh time that some conclusion~! arrived at . He IS o~ o:pmwn that this system is suitable for adoption in the Konkan. The CommiSSioners have postponed till next year their final decision as to how far the system should be adopted. · . 27. T~e new s~stem of boundary marks devised by Mr. Anderson and mtro~u~ed "m the VIllage of Udtara m. Sata;a ~nd .in the .rece~tly surveyed ~oti VI~la"'es o~ Mahad taluka of Kolaba d1stnct, m conJunctwn with the mmod!Iangulatio? system of su.rvey (G:R., R.D., No. 339 dated 19th January ~91.9~, IS under trml. Under th1s system no boundary marks are assigned to mdjv1dual fiel~s, but only a ~ew m,arks are set up for each village, starting from . ~hich as a bas1s the bo~dar1es of 'a?y field as fixed at tl;le survey can at any , time . be ac.curately l~1d down ~th the plane table. The advieability of .adoptmg this system 'ln- supersessiOn of the existinrr one wherever an original survey or a resurvey is carried out, is under conside~ation. One of the main tests which the system must satisfy is that which the lapse of time brinrrs to . bear on it ~n various way~ and I have not con~idered it advisable to hu;y to .any conclusiOns. However, under Government orders this system has been adopted in the .survey of unsettled inam villages, now in hand, since under the usual system of demarcation the cost of these surveys would be prohibitive. Boundary Disputes. 28. The District Inspectors of Kaira, Panch Mahala and Surat settled . 33 petty boundary disputes with Baroda State. In addition, in Surat the whole length of the joint boundaries of 3 villages with Baroda State had to be veri' fied. In Panch Mahals the boundary of the Shivrajpur Light Railway was verified in order to settle all disputes once for all. In Thana one Field· Party Surveyor was employed on verification of the adjoining Portuguese boundary. I have elsewhere expressed my opinio~ that all conflicts of boundary with Baroda State ought to be settled once for all without waiting till they emerge as active disputes. , 29. In order to obviate the uncertainties that, owing mainly to defective methods of survey in the past, are incessantly arising regarding the boundary - of the B. B. &. C. I. Railway, a trial survey of 4 miles on the line near Bandra was carried I out, the principle being th~t the .common boundary shot~:Id be settled at all points where there was any dispute and that then .the railw~y · ·land ·and · the adjoining land should be surveyed by pl~ne table m one sol!d block. · Any further variation in the. co~mon boundary 'Yl~ ~en be entered m · ·our 1• solid" map so obtained of the ~all~ay and ~he adJmmng land, as well as in the duplicate of the same in possession of the ra1lway company, an.d so long as both parties make the desired change, there can never be any d1screpa~cy 'between the railway boundary and the ~urvey boundary, becaus.e both partws start out with the saine map, and any hues ~awn subsequently m that m!l:P. to show a change of railway boundary automat!C.all;r show also the corres~ondmg change in our revenue survey bo~ndary.. A srm1lar procedure was earned out "'n three miles of the G. I. P. Railway, m Sholapur. · The results of both the experil?ent~ are now with the rail.way authorities .and their views regarding the_ contmua.twn of the work are awa1ted. Sub-Division Survey, Northern Division. 30. Owing to scarcity the _pot hissa su'rve.y in North Gnjarat had to be suspended and the temporary partieS employed Oll l.t reduc~d, only on.e party ?f 12 men one nimtandar, and one head surveyor bemg retamed on t~s work, m the. sub~rbs of Ahmedabad. 'Ihe work there c9vers the whole of 19 villages and p;trts of 3 villages, together with the village sites si~~a.tcd in the area, its main object being to have sheets ready for fu~ure a?qmsitJOn and .development p~r poses. This is the first survey of its kind m G:uJarat on the rumor tnangulatwn system 'l>ith plane table interpolation; and budt and open spaces, . trees, wells, hcd{Tes and other details of fairly permanent character are shown In the sheets. The~d~lite ,York was done in 5 yillages during the year, and plane table work in one. All the theodolite work is now complet:e, and plane tabl~ work has been done in 15 >illages, partly done in 3, and remmns to be done m 4. In all 5,253 plots of 12,30Z acres in ar:a haYe. be~n surveyed. The propess_ of the work has been satisfactory. As to Its quality It was tested by the Superm tendent of Land Records and the Director of Land Records (both 1\Ir. Anderson and myself) and also ~y Mr. Mi~a~s, the Consulti~g Surveyor to Govel'llll!e~t (who is particularly mterested m It because he w~ll have .to t;Jake use of It m his town-pl'1nning schemes), and we were all well satisfied With Its ac,curacy and completeness. For survey work of this quality it is being done cheaply, but the Superintendent is not yet able to supply the figures of cost per hissa. According to this method much time is necessarily spent on theodolite office work in scientific adjustment of the angles, calculation of the sides, and preparation of the traverse statements and index map. This office work took 376 days as against 342 days for the theodolite field work; but it wiU be done with greater speed hereafter. Needless to say it is well worth while, consi dering the purpose in view; and in this connection I may say that the speed and accuracy with which men on Rs. 30 or 35 manipulate the theodolite is equalled by the skill with which they make these adjustments and calculations, though a great part of the business is just so much "abracadabra." to them. 31. . During the monsoon of 1918 the Gujarat parties completed the. recess work of 28,150 hissas dmie in the previous season i~ 106 villages of the Halol and Kalal talukas of the Panch Maha.ls. · 32. The Sub-Division survey of the following talukas now remains to be done:- Panch Mahlils :-Dohad and Jh:ilod. Kaira:-Matar, M~hmadabad (except ~4 villages already completed). Ahmedabad:-5 villages in the suburban area. The expenditure during the year was Rs. 24,308-11-3, the recoveries Rs. 4,404-11-0; and total balance- for recovery at the close of the year Rs. 43,466-12-11. Here, as in the other divisions, recoveries were abnormally low on account of failure of crops. · _ · . 33. In Thana . only 4 Field Parties took the field. They worked in 87 vlllages, and measured and mapped 33,592 sub-divisions, besides examining 40,809 entries in the Record of Rights. I am glad to say a much needed im provement in the rate of outturn has been secured. ·The cost per hissa has gone up to annas 10 and 8 pies (by plane table) as against the combined average of annas 9 and 7 pies (by plane table and falni) of the last year, the increase being due to the grant of war allowance, and the increase in cost of supervision per hissa owing to the number of parties being cut down from 6 to· 4. Pot hissa survey remains to be done in 12 and a fraction pircles of 4 ta.lukas. The expenditure during the year was Rs. 30,821-B-2, the recoveries Rs. 24,444, and total balance at its closeRs. 24,564-8-11. · Central Division. 34. Out 'Of the 22 field parties of 238 men, and one head-quarter party of 25 men, one was abolished at the close of the field season of 1917-18, and the remaining were employed as usual during the' rains on the recess work of dis tribution of the assessment over sub-divisions already measured. In November 191~ the deputation of measurers on city survey, and on special work due to· famme, resulted in the abolition of two ·more field parties. Three parties in addition to the head quarter party remained at head-quarters to clear off arrears of recess work, and the other sixteen took the field. In December one of the parties retained at head-quarters was abolished, and thus the total number of 274 parties was reduced to 19. The 1G parties allotted to field work were divided between the Survey Marulatdars, Messrs Sane and Josh· k' . t and Nasi'k , respec t'1ve I y. Th e end of March . 1919 saw the I,b worl't' mgf m 8 a ara ·). th N "k Th · a o 110n o one·ruore part! Iu e . _asi grou~. . ese r~peated curtailments were of course due to famme cond1t10ns and financtal Etrmgency. , The total strength was ultimate! reduced to 207 ~ands. T~e work was done by plane table in which all the meK are now well s~Ille~, cham and cross staff being resorted to only in exceptionally difficult case.s m htlly tracts. I tested M:r. Sane's work and found it quite satisfactory m all re~pects: . Both_men are commended by the Superintendent. In a_ll189,578 hi~sas m 412 VIllages were measured and mapped, as against 244,35~ m th~ precedmg ;rear, .and assessments on 268,586 hissas were calculated as agamst 20a,476. A b1g strtde was thus made towards brin()'in" the calcu lation work up to date: These parties earned bonus of R~ 3~615-14-0 for measurem~nt work do.ne m excess of the prescribed• scale.. The.· average total, cost per ~ssa, exclustve. of war. allowance, comes to annas 6 and pies 11 which is very satJsfactory, and IS an tmprovement on the 7'34 annas of last year. War allowance will probably add one anna to the cost per hissa. Tho recoveries during the year amounted to Rs. 62 115 · and the total balance outstanding at the close of the year (inclusive ~f ar~ears of previous years) was Rs. 66,152. Owing to famine conditions no collections were made in several talukas. 35. The party th~t was sent to Deolali in April1918 for the survey of the extended limits of Deolali Cantonment has this year triangu1ated nearly 9 villages and plane tableQ. one village; 935 properties, 769 survey _Nos. and 694 hisass having been measured. More could not be achieved as the computation of the theodolite work takes time, and the party could not be increased. To guard against "fudging" the computation '~ork is done ~ndependently in the office of the Director of Land Records and IS now well m band, and the plane table interpolation in the field will flow on smoothly and swiftly next fair season. The Superintendent of .Land Rec:ord~ reports that the work of miD;or triangul~ tion with plane table mterpolat10n IS not easy, takes . much time, and IS expensive owing to high price of labour in t~e villages close ~o peolali Canton ment· that kabjedars do not come re11:dily to show _their htssas; and only comp~tent and therefore well paid m~asurers can do the triangulation _work. It · is bhus probable that .Government will have to be asked to bear a port1on of the cost. . .. ' 36. The progress of the hissa survey. ·in the Central Division is as follows·. ·
Talukss and Petaa Talukos and Potos Talukos and Pet.. completed. in hand. remaining. District. • Petu. Talukos •. Petas. Talukas. Pet... Talukas. I ------' East and West Khandesh I ...... Comp leted...... •••I ...... I 2 •. 2 Poona ... , 6 1 ...... BatAra 1 1 ······4 I ...... 6 2 ... 1 1 ...... Ahmednagar 9 2 ' ... ' ······s ...... ······ - 5 ...... Nasik ... , 4 ...... 2t Bho!Apur ... 5 ······ ...... ······ nd 25 villa es in Medha. • And 58 inam villages in Purandhar and :Haveli. t A g · · · 6 The Konkan had 12 parties of 95 men, of which . 37 . S ou th ern D tv~s1on.- k f th t 1 k f two were amp1 oye d throug h ou t the year on. .the recessk wor ofi ·h.:cee d aa u das the o · Ratna iri and two of Kolaba. The Ratnagm ta1 u as -were ms 6 • ~ . other ~wo have been finished since the close o! the year.b Onlyd10thpartiets, ~s . t k th £eld some Ill Decem er an e res m agaiDst 15 the year before, oo e. ' . · "llages by plane table as con- January, and measured 46,605 h1ss~s m 21 Vl ' trasted with 74 844 done in the preceding year. . . · · ' t ork in the Karnat1c; but one was . b liTben Jilarties of 81 men wered alOi :15 hissas in 165 villages of 3 talukas, a o s ed m May. They measure . - as compared with 82,602 last year. .. 88-8 10
All the work was done by_ J;>lane table. The his~a. survey was here, as elsewhere, combined with the revlSlon of ~he Record of Rights. rr:he measurers handed over the plane table sheets with tippans of names of kabJedars to. t~e tala tis for verification in the field as soon as they were ready; bu~ the tal~ tis m Ratnagiri failed to verify them p~nctuall.y and to correct mtstakes 1n. t~e Record of Rights thus brought to light, Wlth the result that' much work ts m arrears here. 38. The output in the Kamatio has been very .satisfactory.. The output ' as specified above is much higher than last year, whtle the estabhshz;nent was of about the same strength. l\Ir. Kalelkar, the Deputy Supermtendent, deserves credit for this, as well as for other good·work. The Konkan statistics are also satisfactory and show an improvement over those for 1917-18 when the relative size of the field establishments and the time spent in the field are reckoned. And in reality the improvement is g:eater than the fio-ures indicate, because the work to be done was more comphcated, the average number of bends per survey No. and hissa having increased. In this connection Mr. Dalal reports that the average number of bends to be mapped per survey No. and hissa during the year was 102 and 7, respectively, figures which will give some idea of the complication of this work in the Konkan. At the same time there is still room for improvement in the Konkan, too many measurers having been detected in bad work. Ulider the new Survey l\Iamlatdar, l\Ir. A. S. Bhagwat, ·who is doing very well, l' have every hope that this improvement will be secured. 39. It is estimated that the cost per hissa'will work out to 8 annas in the Kamatic and, 14 annas in the Konkan, as against 6"6 annas and 13 annas, res pectively in the preceding year. But this increase in cost is due to the grant of war allowance and would have been higher but for the improvement in out tum. The total expenditure during the year in Kamatio was Rs. 49,034. The recoveries during the year amounted to Rs. 14,681; and the total balance outstanding at the close of the year (inclusive of arrears of previous years) was Rs. 1,05,505. · · · In the Konkan the total expenditure during the. year was Rs. 81,962 • . The recoveries during the year amounted to Rs. 10,234; and the total balance· outstanding at the close of the year (inclusive of arrears of previous years) was Rs. 90,191. But a considerable portion of this balance will be written off (vide G. R., R. D., No. 8592 dated 22nd August 1918, etc.). , . Recoveries could not'be made in many villages owing to whole or partial failure of crops. · . · · . 40.. The work in the Karnatio is prac.tically complete; only 5,000 hissas m Athm talulia remaining. In the Konkan, all talukas of Ratnagiri have been done except Khed and Devgad w:pjch are in progress; and a11 talukas of Kolaba except Alibag, Karjat and Mahad, which are still to be begun. Maintenance of Sub-Division Survey. . 41. We know only too well that a survey once made must be con- · tmuously maintained if most of the benefit is not to \>e thrown away. SpeciaJ attention is therefore being paid to keeping this survey up to date. · In Nor them and Southern Divisions the staff (vide paragraph 19) provided for ordinary measurement work in a district,· does also the measurement of new sub di:'isions. But in the Central Division the staff was insufficient to cope with th1s :v~r~ and con~eque_ntly in .all districts except Sa~ara, where the original sub-diVISIOn survey IS still in progress, parties of temporary men were em ployed for it, the cost of the establishments being recovered in the shape of fees in the ordinary way. In·West Khandesh Re. 1 per sub-division is being recovered; elsewhE;re the cost worked out to from 7 to 11 annas per sub-division. In the Northern Division the fee is 12 alillas, and in the Southern Division 8 annas, except in Kolaba where it is 10 annas. 11 In all 37l4:.l0 new sub-divisions arrears at the close of the year were were measured during the year. The Northern Divi~ion 17,916 Central Division 51,910 Southern Division ... 11,762 and necessary measures have been taken f t · the current fair season. · or ge tmg this work done during
General Remarks. . .l 42. In all 378,072 hissa3 were measured in the year by a mu h t il d establishment. The rate of outturn has improved a d ·n . c ~llr a e The cost inevitably increased owin"' t~ the paym,ent of w:~ llprove stJ dotrhe .. rise in the cost of labour and nd d t k b t h . a owance an e . . ea. s oc , u t e mcrease was distinctly mo dera t e d bY the Improvement m effiCiency . • This S!lrvey serves as a check over the existing survey records and t ~how how It works,, I may say that in the Central Division errors wer~ detected m ~23 ~urvey no~. 1n two talukas of one district in one year. Appropriate actiOn IS taken 1n each case. The survey is also invaluable for the e · · 1 Recor d o f RIg• hts, whi ch 1s· earned• out simultaneously.· r VISIOn 0 In all the Div~sio_ns. the outturn of work is kept up to scale by the grant ?f bon~~es and the·mlh~tlol?- of fines:for excess and deficit work, respectively. An mcomg1bly slack ~an IS dismissed. Its 9uality is kept up to the mark by departmental pumshments, and by cuttmg out and refusing to pay for all bad work. CHAPTER III..
SURV.EY AND SETTLEMENT. . I _ R evenue Survey. . 43. Northern Division.-Of the ten men forming the Gujarat :field party 4. were on deputation. and their· posts were kept vacant. One surveyor w'as employed underthe Assistant Settlement Officer in Dholka, North Daskroi and South Daskroi talukas of Ahmedabad district;. and another supervised the , . !Jatar and Mehmadabad temporary akarband staff. One surveyor . after work mg on the akarband staff for some time did theodolite and classification work in the survey of the udb.a:d jama village, Dharoda. Of the remaining three, ~wo in Kaira and one in Surat district did verification of village boundaries and Important measurement cases. One of the 4 men on deputation-was withdrawn towards the end of the field season and employed on the verification of the boundaries of the B.B. & C.I. Railway land near Vile Parle. This party measured 123 acres in 21 survey numbers, and classified 3,005 acres in 369 survey Nos. in 2 talukas, besides· verifying encroachments in 160 survey numbers and.boundaries (partly) in 31 villages. · : ' · Of the three men forrp.ing the'Thana field party one was deputed to the Kalyan City Survey another verified the Daman frontier and disposed of a few important measure~ent cases and the third was chiefly employed in the survey of lands at Arnala for the lay-out of the new district headquarters. The _latter two men measured 225 acres in 99 survey numbers and classified 835 acres m 156 survey numbers. · Talukddri Survey. . 44. ~ The survey of the 27 villages belonging to the Thakor of Limbdi san~ tioned in Government Order No. ·12473 of 18th Decem~er 1916 and begun m 1916-17, .was concluded this year, ~xc~pt for the erectiOn of a few bou~d~ry marks and pricking 0 :&: maps for prmtmg. In all 99,315 numbers compnsmg 1~9,086 acres have been measured, and plotted in 426 shee~s for 28 yilla&es (Inclusive of the udhad jama village. of AlaJ:?pur not belonl?mg to Limb~). The average cost per acre comes to annas ~ p1es 6'2 as agamst a~n~s 2 p1es 6 estimated. rr:he total cos,t including the est1mated cost of work remammg to be l~
ilonl' '\\ill newrthclcss Lc only Hs. :.:! t,OOO as against Ik :3:3,000 e~tilll:tt,•rl, the area to be surrr~·ed h:n·ing been onl.1· nmghly km!\\'ll at. the tuuu tho estimate '\\·as framed. The awragc outturn for pl:mc-bblmg work lll'r man per Lhy was 50 acres, \l'hich is quite satishdory.
]Jisccllancolls Su1T1 !JS. 45. The inam -dllago of Dharod:t \\'as surYoyed and cbssified (Govern ment Order Ren•nue Department, Xo. 10:3()1 d:th•d :Jith August 1Ul7 ). 1'he proposed stt~ of Than.-L district hc:td-
~ 93-4 Work at Nadi,td and Borsad was held up for htck of th? printed maps, but th~se have since been received. The issue of sanads, collection of fees and the begm ning of the maintenance work have been und~ly del3:yed to a greater. or less extent in most of these towns because of the delay .m gettmg the ~aps prmted. Steps have been taken to cope with this by orde~mg new machmery from England for the Photo Zinco Press, and by ar.rangmg to h~ve the maps .for sanads pricked o1I from the origina~ maps .mstead of cuttn~g from the pnnt~d maps, until the printing can be earned out m a reasonable time. , The city surVey of Broach which is an ancient one is also undc7 main tenance, and is being methodically brought up to da~e as far as possible: .A revision survey will probably be necessary, and by the time we can take It m hand I expect the Property Register to be in a thoroughly satisfactory condition, so that the work of enquiry will be almost nominal. Proposed surveys o( Surat, .Bulsar; M:urbad and Bhiwndi have been sanctioned by Government and will now be taken up. A resurvey of Ahmed abad necessitated by the destruction of records by fire has been proposed to Government. Central Division. 52. (1) New surveys.-Work was in progress in Yeola, Satara, Amalner, Pandbarpur and Poona suburban area. ·Yeola has been finished, survey work is in progress in Amalner and Pandharpur, and enquiry in Satara and Poona. (2) Maintenance work.-Maintenance work was in progress in Shol
55. There ~ow exist, or are in progress, city surveys-nearly all recent-in 55 towns ( oountm.g 17 ~eparate suburbs of Ahmedabad) and of these 35 contain more than 10,0.00 mha?1tants. The ?-Umber of towns in the Bombay Presidency prope_r ( excludmg Native States) W1th a popul~tion exceeding 10,000 is 62. Considerable progress has therefore been made m surveying the larger cities and towns, and the rate of progress will increase in the future. Thereafter the advisability of extending the work to village sites will come under 'con sideration. Governm~nt. are aware that from 1914 to 1916 15 village sites in. Broach and Surat distncts were surveyed, thanks to the enthusiasm of Mr. Anderson. These surveys and .the record of rights are being duly maintained. Several district officers are very keen on getting the towns in their charges city surveyed; and applications have been received from five non-official Presidents of Municipalities. It is gratifying to find that municipal bodies are realising how useful these surveys can be to them, though of course they are determined on and carried out by Government alone, for its own purposes and for the advantage of all holders of non-agricultural lands. As I have remarked above city survey work wi!J extend in the near future; and it will probably be found' advisable to increas& the superior supe~vising staff of the department to cope with it in the Northam Division. • I have received a good many requests from various outside quarters for copies of Mr. Anders~n:s Cit;v Survey Manual! w_hich is evidently. appreciated by officers of other adm1mstrat10ns engaged on Similar work. . . · · Plwtozincographtc .Office. 56. A detailed report on the working of this office is separately submitted· to Govemment. · , · · · ' CHAPTER IV. RECORD OF RIGHTS. 57. The following table shows th~ places wher~ re-writing~ though due, was postponed, and the reasons for the postponement.- . Reasons for postponing. Dio\riot. T&luka. Villages. l I . .
4 1 . ~ 3 ' ·- f I ... Ba.ssein ... 1 circle Murba.d · ... } 2 Circles ::: } Bad season. • Umberga.on
Kaira ... Mehmq,dabad ·.·.. · l Wh_ ole TS.lukas. Pending p6t hissa survey. MS.tar , S
Panch Ma.Mls ... Godhra. .. . Bad season. Kalol ..."'I} Do. Halo! ... Dohad Do. ... pending ~t hissa. survey. Jh&lol ..."'} Ahmedoagar. } ...... Bad season. East Khandesh ::: Poona ... Junnar Khed -::: 1Whole Taluka.s Pending ~t hissa. surveys.' Ambegaon ... j and Pets.s. Dhond "'I Belgs.um ... Belga.um . Do. ... Pending int!oduction of Kb8.n&pur :::\} . second reviston settlement. Hukeri ... 1 .d D o. ... Pendin.," pot hissa. su-rvey. Rt h I s.na=gcr=·~i------·~..~K~e------"~'1 ______~------lG
Re-miting was done in the following t.Llukas :-
Villages. District. T.Uuka. ------1------1------. .. Khandala circle. Thana Mokhada S!Usette ... Kha.irane ,. Bhiwndi ... Angoon ,. Bhiwndi , (25 villages). Dahanu . .. Chinchani , Gholvad : ,. . (43 ,. ) • Shah&pur ... Kinholi , Umbergaon ... Umbergaon , N&rgol , C9 , ) • Murbad ... Murbad , (8 ,. ). Mahim ... Sa.fa.laand Chahada circle (2 villages). Kaira ... Kapadwanj Thasra Whole t&luka~. Borsad ::: 1 Anand. ... Government villages. Na.diad Inam , West KMndesh ... Taloda 2 .. Naw&pur• 8I .. Nasik ... Baglan I38 .. Sa tara ... Man 35 ., Koregaon ... 71 .. Poona ... Haveli 3 of Kothrnd circle . Belgaum ... Gokak .. . In progreES. Bijapur ... Sindgi B&galkot. ::: } whole talukas . Dh:!.rwar ... Ka.lghatgi . Bankapur ·::: } .. Ktl.nara. ... Ankola ... t Honawar ... J " KoUba ... Mangaon ... 40 Government villages. Karjat ... Whole taluka.
The record was prepared for the first time in certain inam villages as follows:- ·
District. TOJ~ka. Villsgea • .
N&sik ... Niphad ... 4 Peint ... I Belgaum Hukeri ... 2 . Chikodi ... 1 ' Bijapur ... Sindgi ... I " - 58. The work was found generally f;o be done well. The accuracy and completeness of the re-writing are much facilitated by the sub-division survey, as many unrecorded transactions are thus brought to light owing to every sub division necessarily coming under enquiry. in the field during the survey operations. It is reported that people now readily give information regarding mutations, having thoroughly realised the very great importance of the record. ·59. The Superintendent of Land Records, Southern Division, reports :.....o: " The common defects in the Record of Rights are:-· (i) Neglect of th_e Tenancy Register. (ii) Failure to enter a mutation directly.it comes to the notice of the kulkami either through a registration extract or i~ other way-s. There is a general impression that the transactions are not to be registered until the facts are verified and disputes, if any, decided. Many mutations thus fail to be registered altogether. (iii) Failure to note redemptions of mortga.ges. 278 17
. {iv) Fail?re to. maintain the fee register. In many villages the fee regt~ter. I~ found to be blank and even where there are many entr1es It 1s .found tha.~ a fraction only of the cases are brought on the regts~r and ~he fees imposed (mostly by Mamlatdars) are very nommaL It 18 not understood that a.ll the cases of failure to report are to be brought on ~ register, and that imposition of fees should be the rule and exemption the exception. (v) Disputed cases are not decided promptly and on the spot by the offic~rs concerned. Lengthy correspondences are permanently earned on betwe~n ~he Mamlatdar, ·Circle Inspector, Village --- • mp'Iations of office management are In considera.bl& .w.r. w>.uoun s CO 1 di · request by Native States and Local Bo es. l. Sil-li ' 18
GENERAL REMARKS, 63. The staff of the department, ~hich had alreaddy be~n curt~iled ow.ing to the war, was still further cut down 111 the year un er review owmg to Wide· spread failure of crops. The aggregate outturn of work therefore decreased i but the average outturn per man per day of field work improved. Now that the war is ended and a good harvest has been obtained, every available ~nd effi?ient man trained in our methods has been employed, and others are bemg tramed. I expect that a good ~any of our men ~i~l. be taken up .as measurer Circle Inspectors. There is .a fair amount of_sub-dl:"ISIOn survey st1~l to be done, and city surveys villaue site surveys, and mam VIllage surveys will afford work for huoe staffs for ma~y years to come. It will be advisable, however, in recruiting th~se staffs to look well ahead and to guard against having either to throw a large number of comparatively young men out of employment at the end of it all or to employ them on work for which they are unfit. In a month or two the Karnatik sub-division survey will be finished and it would have been neces tJary to disband 80 or 85 men, in addition to many already disbanded in the last years of the war, had we not had other survey work for, them. Now and again I have received complaints from men whose services had been dispensed with through no fault of their owp. Fortunately we now have employment for all the trained men we can get, and more; but it . will be otherwise. when all the work to be done is nearing completion. · 64. I cannot claim that I have done anything striking during my !line months' tentire of this post. On returning to this .department from Sind I found that it had advanced immensely since the days when I was a Superin tendent of Land Records, and that Mr. Anderson had in recent years introduced a host of improvements in every branch of the work. As remarked by him last year, " there is not a single process of survey and settlement, not one form, account or operation in the department, that has not been -scrutinized and reformed ". I considered therefore that I should be best employed in working these improvements, and that the establisl:iments would benefit from a few months· steady drilling, undistracted by further novelties. Perhaps I have effected some improvements in details,. but all, I think, in the direction of perfecting, not of revttrsing, what has already been done. Such work is not striking, but it is at least useful and what, it seemed to me, was most required, just at this time. · 65. I have compiled this report on the somewhat bare lines oflast year's, partly owing to. the circumstances just stated, partly because the necessity of handing over charge to-day cuts short the· time which I should otherwise have. had pleasure in devoting to it Even yet the figures of Ahmednagar district requird for the appendices ha"e not been* received i and a few individual items in these appendices are still under correspondence; but as the year was an abnormal one, and the routine work of the district staffs was much dislocated Ahmednagar beirig one of the extreme cases-the deficiencies are not of much importance. 1 . 66. The Superintendents have been most useful. Mr. Dalal is a .vigorous administrator, and is an experienced Superintendent with views of his own based on long practical acquaintance with the work. · His action in the Konkan I have already commended. Mr. Mardhekar is an excellent lieutenant; and a. minute and careful inspecting officer. Mr. Kavi promises well, and appears to have the necessary aptitude for survey work. A worthy standard to work up to was set him by his predecessor, the late Mr. Reuben. For Mr. Ailtia, my office superintendent, I have nothing but praise i ·and .Messrs. Konnur and Moghe have been very useful. 67. Measures are necessary, in my opinion, for. improving the standard of recruit secured for this department. The most re APPENDIX A. Statement 1 sllowing crop, waste, b01~~'i/ tnaT~s and othn inspections carried out by Circle Inspectors in the Dutncts dunng th~ y~ar 1918-19. Nambefof · • vWase~ io ea.eh Dialriol. Number -1 Number of da)'l , of Clrole aduaJir . Tow.J , Nnm ber NumbeY Ills pee-. devokld Number ' of Sarr- of wu\6 Nama ol D!&lrlct. """'iD theD~ Number !!_lel;o"'D f of OPU• YeJ' Na.m~ IIUID• Number Uid. Tolal.' iJiapee ¥'" ' »led 1 bon bed laapee" led. work. ' Su.ney &114 aub- tt\be'r ed. Ana·- Otlrreat Nam- 'at•iai'!,D. 'boD _-, ~-• l>orL 'iea\e Dbarw•~ 1,!!8!1 1,!11!1 B Kolab& 1,1133 1,6911 141 Batnaairl - 1,93'1 1,009 131 'KaDar& t,nt 1,§J 160 ·11 ... - lo-'ioaof TaJ&iwork. • . ---lNombe• of Nttlllbu elltdea of oheoked eutrtel' 1 Ia eheaked NameofDisldel. JifGmbor Number the Ia llemarkl of Ia Blrlll Vllla&a "'l'atr&l l· which and Ponne Work1 work Dea~ll VI and enmia- wa• Resialft. VlL - eeL flni•be4. 1 lT lS 19 11 Northwn Divlllon, Abmellabe.a. ... 5!1 1!5 17,19> 18.659 haira 1128 19.840 llf,6tl I•a.oeb Kahals .... 408 !lOS 6,1<3 ' 8,8111 Broach N llil l!l.fm lf,901 Sara\ ... -100 100 1Ul8 B9.Bllll 'thana - II 6i lit llf,IIIO UIT,IIilll J<.:QJ\ Ebandesb I 876 •.. 10 Ba8 49,494 Wet\ Khandeah ... fi,<48 Nuik - 8 !li 116S n,ll41 Abmeauagac ... 1,464 49,'118 Poo.na - 1,018 165,QS9 bho*P111' '"'e. ' I 861 83.8i6 tiatara : . 1,518 SGO,m n1 111.008 ·- 1 001 510,410 e 48 109,0151 IT 1",1168 .. 19,oo9 u 1 ' 60,681 ..,.. •oae YUla&e tr&DIIforrecl \o Barod& S\ak from But&u Taluka tVidfl GoYor:atueut •M:emorRdum No. 968 46ted £9t.ll lOU·· 1919), • t 0118 v~ !Sblkawall tr&Dafene APPENDIX A-c011tinued. State1nent II showing the measureme11t and c~ssification work performed by Circle Inq,ectors and other establishment deputed 01l routine m~asurement work during the year 1918-19. ------·------Arreal"B a~ tho N cw cases received Cases disposed of Balanoo at tho beginning of ~ho during the during the close of tho year. year. year. year. Name o! Dislriot. ------Measoro- OIOSI!ill- Measure.. Classifi. 111...,uro- - Classifi~, Measure- Classjfi. mont. ostion. ment. cation. ment. cation. ment. cation. J 1 II 8 ---- ' 5 6 7 8 9 10 Nor II'""' Di•wo>&. S. Nee. S. Nos. S. Nos. S. Nos. S. Nos. S. Nos. Ahmedabad ... 8 1 849 1 812 '·""·!2 •.•.40 ... , Kaira. ... 211i 8 766 71 528 13 ' 453 61 Plulch Mahala ... 80 ... 257 ... 22, ... 63 ... Broach .. 54 1 360 ... 410 1 ... .. ' - Sumt 200 ' 870 49 1,018 81 52 .11 Las' J'ear ... 's wrong flJurea Thana ... 55 25 1,275 288 848 1118 487 90 we~ahowo. - -- ;__ Total ... 557 73 8,877 404 3,335 315 1,099 I 162 .. -- ' ----- Cemral Diui.sitm. EastKhandesh ... 78 ... 883 ... 893. ... 68 ... • Inaludes BiJ: BurveJ No. ot classidoa,ioo. w.. tXhandesb ... 73 1 290 45 858 41 10 '5 I N ..ik ... 115 4 ' 2,840 18 11,206 '18 279 4' - '281' 9 86 ... Ahmed nagar ... 55 ... • 262. 9 . Poona ... 124 1 965 6 758 6 831 - 1 Sholapur ... 69 1 . 519 7 445 5 ua ~ ' 16 s.w.. ... 88 ... 1,897 u 1,705 27 280 ' .. ' -- -- 29 Total ... 632 1 7,156 128 6,591 106 . 1,197 ------S.,..thll"' Diuisimo. - -- 8 20i 1 j Number of caaoa Belgoum ... 803 8 799 6 898 instead of SurveY 11\o. wa.a shown 781 28 124 5 ,las' year. Bijapnr ... 89 2 816 81 58 429 Do. do . Dbiorwat ' i79 1,255 125 1,227 175 ... so ' 87 9 Xolaba - 836 49 sao 40 I ... 61 . ... ' 510 48 89 12 &lnagiri ' ... 98 6 501 49 ·I I 8 22 1,272 28 97 Xanar. ' ... 181 9 1,288 ------459 282 4,988 822 659 ! Total ... 702 499 4,945 ------' I -- au U,9U 743 2,955 650 Grand ToW ... 1,891 579 15,978 A. MACKIE, Acting Settlement Commissioner and Director of Land Records. Poona, 1st December .1919~ .. aa~ APPENDIX B. No. of village a No. or No. of villages: I No.ol entrlea bound· whiab•• checked ..,. . blrlb Villa«e•• marka I----,---J inapec& dea.t.b••d }'orm• Total ed. Clrale regis1era Noe. in &be Number Village loapeo were VIand dietrJoL in1pecktd. omcera' 'ora' checked. vu. work. work. I I 4 6 8 8 --1--- -:----:-t--1---·I ' .. • I ~- I>. 0. ,,,II 358 108 333 Ahwell&had ...... 139 ( ' { Me. _I '"'I{ f2f 4,36il 638' <.003 • loolade1 Ta i village• eot 1S.D.O. ···I 11!13 ... I 830 868 11'15 388 bu been let' Ka.ira ... 629/{ for &he diat1 { :\lr. 4'15 ... I 8,164 U35 f66 10,611 whleb be ···1 m&rk ins s. D.o. 2(18 1.688 ('13 208 B,GOS could DoL t P&neh !dnhaJs. J(~,~r. OwiDI &o fsm ·~ ~{ w 65'1' U86 766 00 3,4.<;0 s.D.O. ...1 11\!S :1,03il rn5 ii!J3 11,819 Broach 1 ···1 :llr. I 01~{ 391! " f,34f 1,1(8 353 7.11'11 I J 313 4.561 8,069 2611 !198 510115 Sura' ···{B. D.O. Mr. 8211{ f!ill 19,0fil s.m 726 33,058 ' •·••a D.O. r f68 UfB 1.9611 1,138 :ns T,96i Thana ·-{S. 1,6::!fo -i Mr. ···! ~ 1,005 2.893 8,000 U311 11'18 33,170 \KD.O. li06 f(lj 1,110 270 281 3,855 E11o11t. J.i:ban- ,, desb. I _.. ;. U50 5.649 B,II'JS 1.480 1,189 H,m I~;. ,l_ o. j93 Iii 1,47!1 i!IO HO 3,970 West Khan- l tlesb. llr. 1.cml 17 S.Sill 340 1,016 21,114 \<:;.II. 0. 1.Q56 Un 6.'U 550 2,682 :Ss.sik ··· ( Jfr. 1.6'15 27<1 f.GI!T 1.6W 1,.608 13,\lOS J ~- n. n. 6U I 0011 •1M 270 !I, Bill .'-bmedna;::ar ... l ... I .ilr, I 1.111'1 ... i 8,1196 1,63!1 1.111'1 17,380 I Pnona ···{s. n. o. 455 !1,133 1211 817 8,566 ~k 1,165 fiB J 4,101 1,261 36,'108 ,s. D.O. 966 334 Shol:\1mr ... 733 86 9,1136 {:\orr. 10!1 1.3991 2,639 1,0:&3 lii,IJ'IO fS.D.O. 695 ... tMr. 1,:>r.o [J. 4.735 1,199 4,534 J,903 ::: I 16.765 6,T61 1,113 88,618 ···{B. D.O. 358 1.6831 1,761 19!1 !!511 3,369 Mr. 001 i{ m 1,409 6,286 ·1,957 784 10,121 618 • 524. Bij-~:~opur ···{S.D.O. 115 1,748 489 13,054 Mr. 915 3'.16 4,663 ... 881 18,11'13 DhRrw N, B. s. D. o.-Sab-Division.t omcer, ldr.=Mamlatda.r or MahalkarL A. MACKIE, Acting Settlement Commissioner and Poona, 1st December 1919. Director of Land Reccrds. 23 281 APPENDIX B-continued. Statement IV showing the details of work done by the District Inspectors of L d Records of the Districts during the year 1918-19 an ·- ·---.-----c-.• .. M __N_o_m-bvillages o_r_o_l_l to ::::•. Crop •_?d waste Inepection numbert checked. • •be diat.ricli, • I 7 ... ~ Is Early. I.~Dote. a I'll -- \j I , ·- I "'=• loa· ,I ; r:i Circle Village Circle V11lag;e Circle VUI~~oge 1 Tot.al. peo\oed. ~ 0 lnspec-- ao- lPspeo- ac-- Inaveo- ac '0~ tors' count- tora' coon· $ora' conn work. ant&' : work ta.nta' work Santa' ....t& ...•" work. ' work. • 'tlork . a.!! s iO £ : I 1 s 4 6 v I ~ g 10 u ! 1----i---' ------, - -- r--:--· -- I Bur turn. ! . D'viftcm. Abmedabltd. <56 13'1 11U 18 18 1,198 2,68:! 45'1 1!0 19'1 Kolro 629 124 1<9 Ill 91 BV 926 166 1!9 Pencb IIAbala 430 148 184• u 18 579 1,910 "jgs 005 Broa.ob 416 110& 211 14 14 967 St:a 'i59 .. 8a.tall 8~ 9tl6 196 23 23 1,859 9,669 9,171 2!11"" ISO() Tbua. 1.15'10 240 1SSl 37 97 68 619 116 19 t I z .., Xbi.odeeb · ... 1.8091 . 918 146 48 S< 288 8!16 85 104 61 46 1,320 Weai Kb,ndeeb ••• 1,215 199 166 91 81 479 1.816 4 97 149 969 ....2 Jfaailr. ••. 1.694 818 1170 S8 S8 llOil 76V S08 966 10 60 Ahmedn..,.. ... 1,875 60 119 4B 48 262 161 993 151 766 Poon• 1,176 187 159 95 85 117 ws 176 . 417 19 'iitJa m Bbolt.pur 700 118 166 IS 15 231 51l1 18 1137 SUA.ra 1,356 2<6 1<0 96 S8 100 1,683 s 8ovChtrfl I Dlvirion.. \ 149 so so 26 859 Belgaum 061 195 "i66 l1'l6 Bljapal' 1,168 147 128 ss 39 !18 41 • 199 96 876 Db a _ 1 j Number or SurveY 1 ... Num berl iea~d. 1 a· - -~ .; 1 l ! : II -;--.:_;--~---1 ~D .s..a. _: "-1;;!- =' g: ·= .s ' ... ~ !i = . i .! Rem&rk .. 'U Mea- Class- . .!! Cl a 3 ~ II : w.e.., Ola.as- eared ad b:r • ut~ ~ ~"' ~ Dleiriet.. eared ed by by the tbe G .o :; • ~ ·:;; .:; • b:r the the Gene- Gene- ~j ~ i e '2 =-z Ci~:· Circle ra.l ra.l ID • .... a ~ E4 0 i IDspeo- duty do~ 'C,:. o r~ ~ g, pa&• tors. Inapao- Inapeo- ... ::I ...,-0 ,.. "'" ..., ,. 'ora, ton. ion. _!;.. 2:1 • .8 :;: ·~ ~~ !~ ~ ~ I ~~ 1 16 17 l~~-~~~~~~-----·5______..,;_ __1---1---1- I Nm'lhem • I ! I D(oit(on. I' Ahmedabad 1.878 21 ... ~ •·· 1 ~:~: ::: T.F. oo Xaira ::: SS6 ~ ... 4 Ii D all . !To.~~kaa ..•. 66 39 1 20 ' 8,1051 .. . 8 Paucb M&bi\11 .•• Ill 6 1 8.917 .. . Broa.ab 1,007 98 1 18.46:1 A ... '!ju 9 Bora.t 1,967 •4 ' 8,152 i ...... ThAna. 9,006 119• '111 ! I Centt'tll Dtvtsion. I ~.. 'l,25S Eaai Kblndeah .. . 65 ...... 6,8!1~ ... 176 ... ,.•• 'iioo We .. ~ Kha.odeab .. . 9 6,66:A 131 Naatk .•• 545 ...... !l,42ti 111 .. . •8 19'1 Abrnedno.a:ar ... 99 6 4,10'.! ...... 'I Poona 1~: 2 ...031 .. . Bbol&.pur . ::. 26 l!l,640 .. . 8&.to6.ra. 74. ... I ! South~W~ I Diviaion·. i : • .· 1 5 1 BetgA.am 1.~w ao ... ::: I ~-z:~ ••• ...... \ • BliBpur :: I:IH& 87 ...... u 1:400 , ... 8 . ... ' ... 1 ~ .. 27 ~ ~~~------~:_: ___ ~.-~i_i~ ___r_;~.-~~=~~~L._ .._-~i \ ___:::_~_L __f:_ir_~~!~_::_: ____:_:: ____ ~:~:: __l~·~::::r~~ 1 ~~~------· 2 A. MA.CKIE, Actin~ ScLtlewent Commissioner and Diredor of TJand Records. :11 Part III of tl1e Land:Reutme .J.dministration lleport ojtl1e Pr01.,'i11ee of Sind for the year 1918-19. No. Rev. 2916 of 1919. REVENUE DEPARTMENT: Camp of tlte Commissioner in Sind, Mirpuiklw,s, 5tl£ December 19lf). Revised irrigational settlements were ~ot i~troduced in any taluka m Sind during the year under report. Appendix A IS therefore blank. The proposals for the re-settlement of the Umarkot, Digri and Jamesa.ba.d . talukas and the Jamrao tract of the M.irpurkha.s, Sinjhoro and Sanghar -talukas referred to in the last year's report are still under the Commissioner's consider ation. During the year revision settlement reports were prepared for ta.luka.s Shikarpur Sakrand and Kotri. The reports of the latter two talukas are under the consideration of the district officers concerned, while Lba.t of the former Wuka is awaiting the Commissioner's review. 2. The amount of work done at the Head Record office is detailed ii~ appendices Band C. The number of correction cases disposed of {appendix B) was 5 040 out of 5,141 compared with 3,816 out of 3,959 in the previous year. The a~tual work disposed of, however, was less ~an that of the previous year, the survey numbers dealt with being 25,268 compared with 29,911. The decrease is explained by the unusual amount of work in the previous two years occasioned by the measurement of land on the Choi Canal in the Sukkur distr.ict and the construction of new water-courses in the Thar and Parkar district, no work of similar extent having been undertaken during the year under repor~. Entries relating to 1,225 survey numbers were examined in tho office of the Superintendent, Land Records, and only 24 mistakes were discovered, most of which were corrected at the time of inspection. In all, 152land registers were prepared during the year. Out of these, l43 related to two talukas including the one taken in band at the close of the previaus year, and the remaining 9 "related to 3 talukas in which the record of certain debs was prepared afresh owing to territorial changes. The· land. registers of a.ll the re-settled talukas have now been completed with the ex ception of the registers of certain debs in the Shalibandar Sub-Division and in talnka. Thul of the Kandhkot Sub-Division, in regard to which correspondence is proceeding. · The number of maps prepared and supplied to Government officers with or without payment and to private individuals on payment was 5,283, compared with 6,752 in the previous year. The decrease is due to the fact that in the previous year a. large number of maps was prepared in connection with classi fication of land to be commanded by the projected Right and Left Bank Canals. The maps referred to in the last year's report as kept in reserve pending the resumption of the clllSsifica.tion work were supplied during the year under report. The number of maps cOrrected and kept in tbe Record office for use as office copies or for future reproduction .was 31d. The total number of maps dealt with thus amounts to 5,599, compared with 6,921 in the preceding year. Appendix C relates to the work done in the Record office ·in consequence of new measurements carried out by the Village Establishments. The number of measurement papers relating to survey numbers received for examination and entry in the Record office declined by. 3,699 to 13,822. All the papers received in tbe Record office were disposed of, with the exception of on.e cor respondence relating to 44 survey numbers which was under reference to the Mukhtiarkar concerned. Out of 13,778 survey numbers of which measure ment p11.pers ..,ere disposed of during the year, the papers relating to no less than '1,107 survey numbers were returned without entry for amendment. This result is attributed to want of attention on the part of tapedars to this branch of their duties and also to the fact. that the Village Establishments &re not properly equipped with survey instruments. The Superintendent of Land Records has brought cases in point to the notice of the officers concerned, 25 an~ fuo Commi~sioner has also impressed upon the districli fii th for Jmprovement m the measurement work of tapeda.rs. 0 cers e need 3. The work of sorting and destroying records is rep rt d · t b to-date. . o e o e up- . 4. The Record offi~e came under the annual inspection of the Su rin tendent, LSand ~etecordds, ln May and June,last and the result was satisfact~y. The upenn n ent,, Land Records, complains that the establishment in the Head Record office. lS unequal to tlie work required of it Amo th circumsta.nces which render difficult the recruitment' of good material a:f th! reteD:£ion of a Showin tht work done in the Head Re~ord office in.ccmnectum with new tnetWtrements g do111 l>y Vellage Bstabluhment. . - ; •I Survey numbers Numb of j Suzvey "'!"'ben or ofwhich Survey numbem ofwliich • talubs and 1 moasmement of which entries papenWftll Arrears •t were made Dislrict. ~ohals in papora were returned wilh· the end of Remarka. which survey, -~..a for in lha SUrvey OlU Ollky OD the year. work """ entrJ in the Becords. ..-.u>*of done. Survey Beoo!ds. . errors. 1 ' • --· r---- '; - ·- 1,946 2,871 Karachi ..... 10 I 4,816 I • ······ Hyderabad ···j' 'I 1,9'18 1,06'1 911 o;.•u• Sukur ...... 8 i,SSS 1,305 1,018 ····- Larkalll> ... ! 11 1,2~ 67i Till ...... • Thor and Parkar ... j 'I '131 8!18 SS9 .u t:pper Sind Frontier ' 5 910 60S 86'1 ...... Na=bsbah ..."'f 8 1,649 8~9 8~0 ••••u . -- - Totallorl91S-19 ... 56 13,8:22 6,6'11 '1,101 4& . Tota! for 1917-18 ... 69 l'i,621 9,131 1 8,390 ...... APPENDIX D. Statement sho-wing the tut of Tapetlars' and Supervising Tapedar1' impecticm work . by tl1e Sub-Divisional Officers in the province during 1918·19. · . Namber of debs. Number I Nainber o!Suney aumborallt whloh af della arop ~d &eDaney record wu ebeoked. Number of INumber ID whieh debe Ia whloh ofHtrlee h"ame of di&.1rlet.. l>oaDil...,.' • • hlnbaD4 cheeked. Bem.arka. !I'oaal llfumbSZ' maru j . j deaSb In Vll!ase ID tbe 'riti~ed revair .... Tapedara' work. SUDHYilliDI rtaltHre were format-e diahid. durma: Tape4ara' -k. eheckod. •lull-D. .\he :roar. .. --. . i ··--· 1 ' I {" 1 I B ! & • i •• --;-, __. __ ------· - ' ' I ! I 'I l EaraebJ ... 'IllS SlG !II' usa 1,7.28 w 198 ' • Bfderaba4 ... 925 548 M 18,1111, 1.89 IW t,ll5 I ~ Tbar a ad PH-ka.f ... 1163 653 I 18 2T,616 1.1911 108 .J,I86 l A. g • I• +Ill 10 Blcot I meuure- ' mea.t. I - Lark au - 4'111 l 85 9,1101 l,&lil 1011 f,'l9f .Na.-abahl.h J;68 9,060 161 ... :J .. 1,161 . a,a I '· f:iukkar .. ru 491 uo 10,Z'Ii I,NI :1;0 1,961 -· Upver Siad Frootier • OJ 3'14 5,4311 868 811 m " A. g. +838 85 B ~~~::.: - . meat. . . -· ' J. A. SBILLIDY, {o1' Commissioner in Sind. Department of Land Records. • · 2 8 4 Report of ~he -. in t?e. Bombay Presi- dency, mcludmg Smd, for the year . 1918-19 . . GOVERNMENT OF BOMBAY. REVENUE DEPARTMENT. · Resolution No. 1549. · Bombay Castle, 22nd May 1920. Letter from the Settlement Commissioner and Director of Land Records No AD -90 dated 17th February 1920--~~bmitting, for appr?val, a proof copy of the Report. of the Department of Land Records m the Bombay Pres1dency for the year 1918-19; and making remarks. · · ·Government memorandum• No. B.-181 dated 12th March 1920 to the Settlement Commissioner and Director of Land Records. ' · . Letter• from the Se~lement Commissioner and Director of Land Records No. A.D.-90 dated 26th March 1920. 7 · · _ RESOLUTION.-The report· records ;t year when the Department made progress agains~ ~ifficulties. Ow.ing to scarcity o~ .~a;mi:p.e over the greater part of.th!"· _Prestdency mu\)h measu~ement of sub-dtvlSlons of survey numbers and rewntmg of. ·the Reco~d ·Qf. Rights had to be · postponed and the staff employed on more ur~ent duties. · Th'is remark, however; can hardly be held to apply: to the distnct of Ratmigiri. The observations of the DuectOr of· Land Records in paragraphs 24· and· 25 of the report regarding this d'i!itrict should ·receive the careful attention' of the Collector· and his subordinates. The complicated .character of the Record in this disttict makes the task of. maintenance specially difficult,. and the comparatively small amount of •Not printed. :t. Rev 214-.&. .... -- _,_:__, _...... ------..,.------;-- -:-o••.,,- ..,U.OI.LA l.lJI:il•t:lll" ... Boundary Di;putes . ... ' \_, M«,lasurement, of Sub-Diyisions~ General Do. do. Norther~ Division . ... Do. do. Central Division ... J •no. do.<. Southern Division .. ... ' Do. do.. General Remarks ·'' ...- ' ' CHAPTER i'II.-SunvEY AND SErrLEMEN:r REVENUE SuRVEY. t '·. I .• '. '' . Revenue Surtey Work, Northern. D).visiorLI :I, ;43-45. . H: Do. do. · Central Division ... 46 11-12 no. . . do. Southern Division . ' 'J' 47-53 12-13 · SErrLinmNrs. Settlement Work, Notthern Division' · ... 54 v 1:~ ' .. ) . . . Do. Central DIVIsion 55 13 Do. · Southern Division ... . 56 .. 13 CHAPTER IV.-Cn:Y SulWEtS. ' • . () . ; ' . ' ' . City Surveys, Northern Division ... 57-59 13-,14 Do, Central Division ... 60-62 14-15 Do. Southern Division ... 63 15 · V)llage Site Survey ... 64 15 • Goverbmcnt Photozinco :Press •••• 65 u D b60 .