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The land revenue

falls in the former district of Fyzabad at the rate of '-^ P®^ arable acre on the 28 large taluqas, aver^®' ^ J f ^'gi'ig 35,000 acres each, its incidence is Re. 1-2-6 per. revenue. acre of entire area on the 17,000 small properties, averaging nearly 29 acres each, the incidence is Re. 1-7 per acre; while the 22,846 under-proprietors of various kinds, who hold sub-tenures, sirs and birts, hold on the average 14 acres each, and pay Re. 1-9-3* per acre. This last statistic is, however, open to question.

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To complete the view of the landholders and occupiers, we may add that there are 183,447 cultivating tenants this would not allow more than 3^ acres to each tenant. There are said to be 2,288, or nearly 2| per cent., of the tenants who possess rights of occupancy at variable rates.

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The sub-settlement

cases were finished six months ago, and the return of sub-settlement is complete. Of the 2,383, villages settled with taluqdars in this district (two-thirds of the whole area), 791 have been decreed in sub-settlement, and 69 in hereditary farm at very favourable rates ; i. e., more than a third of the taluqa lands is still in the proprietary management of the original owners.

Extract from Settlement Report.

" The gross rental of these villages has been estimated at Rs. 7,12,068, of which, after payment of the Government demand, the taluqdars get Rs. 1,37,561, and the under-proprietors Rs. 2,10,618; the taluqdars getting 19'3 of the gross rental, the under-propriptors 29'5.

The profits of the sub-settled villages are divided among 9,466 recorded shareholders, so that the average annual value of an under-proprietor'sprofit in a sub-settled village is a little more than twenty-two rupees and "

a quarter. 1,523 taluqa villages remaining (two-thirds of the whole num695 in which decrees of sir or right of occupancy have already been given. The land so awarded is in area 47,088 bighas, and is estimated to be of the yearly value of Rs. 1,24,702, a sixth of the gross About a fifth of the sir rental of the villages in which the sir is situated. On the remainder a rent is paid varying in lightness is held rent-free. in different estates, but on an average nearly 7 annas in the rupee below the fuU rent. The amount of remission decreed to ex-proprietors up to Of this date is Rs. 23,365 in rent-free sir, and Rs. 44,398 on rented sir. the rent-free sir there are details ready of holdings valued at Rs. 20,765. These are held by 386 sharers, so that each has a holding of the annual Of the rented sir there are details of value of nearly fifty-four rupees. shares in Rs. 44,306 of the estimated profits; These are divided among 1,677 sharers, and the share of each is therefore nearly twenty-six rupees, and a half. The rent-free sir lies mostly in the eastern taluqas, and therented sir is so largely in excess of that held rent-free, that the average of the latter affords the" more approximate estimate for the entire district "

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of the pecuniary privileges of the old proprietors who have lost the management of their villages. The averages given last year were based on
 * Annual Returns, 1872-73.

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