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of obtaining anything from them lay in looking only to them and not to the courts for what they wanted. It is impossible to say how far the demands of the under-holders in this and the other iMqas of the Kaja-eE,ajgd,n of Kapurthala may have been settled out of court, but I am inclined to think that now that the settlement courts are closed and claims can only be advanced on full stamp, the agents will not be hard upon those who have not opposed them.

Out

of 938 claims to sir, dih, daswant, nankdr, dldafi, &c., in all taluqas 483, or rather more than half, have been decreed, Result of olaima to while in 43 more the petitions were withdrawn, and ^^J therefore be concluded that in these also the tS.uqaa. plaintiffs got something. The amount decreed is as follows '
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By

Decreed on

consent.

Bighas.

Bighas.

570 312 84

779 611 268

1,34» 923 352

966

1,658

2,624

1,228

5,501

67

53 34

185 2,398 75 290

6,723 252 2,933 128

2,883

10,107

12,990

Es.

A.

2,148

8

Es. 2,277

Total cultivation rent-free

Homesteads Groves in under- proprietary

riglit

5.35

Ponds and marshes Pasture land Total land decreed in taluqas

„

Es.

Cash nank£r

m ditto

Inasmuch

No

rights

128

A.

8

324

whole of the above land and cash has been awarded in 176 villages only, such settlements having been deany creed in 69 others, it will be seen that the under-pro-

as the of

kind decreed in 1,522 taluc^dari villages.

Very few

Total.

Bfghas.

Ndnkar land rent-free Daswant rent-free Dih rent-free

Sir land at favorable rates

trial.

suits

prietary rights recorded in 1,515 villages out of 1,760 owned by taluqdars are absolutely nil.

have been registered under the head

Birts, small holdings

of birts, as all claims

to entire villages in virtue of birts have been included ^^der the head of sub-settlement. Birt grants of

small holdings were very rare in Bahraich.

may be

certainly congratulated on the mild character of the from the first to last. In very few cases has any bitter feeling been generated, and if the claims preferred in some of the loyal grantees' estates had been met in a somewhat more generous spirit by those who have themselves received such

The

district

Character of the gation.

liti-

litigation

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