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substantial proof of the liberality of Government, there would be little cause to regret the action of our courts in any but a very few cases.

The revenue The realisable

which' is actually realisable under the revised assessment

revised

is

aS folloWS



demand. Estates assessed at the ordinary rate of assessment Estates paying a q^uit-rent only

Es. As. P. 9,56,065 14 1

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5&,2-i2

10,15,307

14

1

This gives an increase of 798 per cent, on the summary demand. The ubove, however, does not include the jama which has been assessed on revenue-free areas resumable after the first or second life.

The

incidence of the revised assessment for the' whole district (understanding by that term in the revenue-free and quitrerent estates the assessment as calculated for the purposes of estimating cesses) falls with an incidence

Incideuce of the vised demand,

On On

cultivation assessed area

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6 14

7 percent.

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on cultivation from Rs. 1-11-10 per acre in His^mpur to Es. 1-1-2 per acre in Dharmanpur, while on total area it varies from Rs. 14-8 per acre in Hisampur to Rs. 5-11 per acre in Dharmdnpur.

and

it

The

varies

total area (equivalent to

Area under perpetual assessment.

ed)

23 percent, of the whole

now held under

follows

district as assess-

assessment

perpetual

is

as



Area ia

acres.

Hevenue,

Incidence per acre total area.

Es. A. P.

Eaja-e-Eajgan of Kaptirthata

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Maharaja of Balrampur

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Total

247,122 117,889

1,24,305

365,011

1,83,547

59,242 1

3 10 lOJ 11 10

been mentioned, in historical sketch, that out of 3,682 villages and hamlets held by the taluqdars in the year prior to annexation, no less than 1,858, or morp than half, were confiscated for complicity in the rebellion of 1857 A. D. Of these, 313 were comprised in the Tulsipur estate which has been made over to the Naipal Government, It has already

Confiscations and loyal grants.

In 1869 A.

D., therefore, the

Government found

itself

with 1,545

villag-

es at its disposal, having an aggregate area of 657,153 acres or 1,027 square miles, being as near as possible ^V of the district as now assessed. The estimated rental of these lands at the present time is Rs. 10,54,005-2-8.

This large and valuable area has been distributed partly in revenue-fi-ee tenure, partly in perpetual settlement, and partly at the ordinary rate and term of assessment, among the parties whose names appear in the statement appended. All those grantees, with the exception of those marked*, obtained these assignments for loyal service rendered to the Government either during the troubles of 1857 or on some previous occasion.