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CHAPTEE

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ADMINISTRATIVE FEATURES. Eevenue and expenditure—Local funds— Administrative body—Police divisiona- Criminal classes

—Education — Post office— Medical aspects.

Eevenue and

'^^^ revenue for 1872-73

ex-

was as follows



penditure.

Land revenue Stamps

Opium and

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spirit excise

Law receipts

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Es. Es. Bs. 10,10,428 balances 1,75,203— total, 11,85,631. 87,997 79,180 9,000

11,86,605

When

the land balances are paid up, the revenue will be Rs. 13,61,805, Rs. 2,26,101, or about 16 per cent, of the income but this includes the pay of the temporaiy settlement staff, the divisional central staff, as well as of the district ofificers, and does not include the pay of the troops. There is no advantage in comparing present revenue with past, as the area of the district was largely reduced in 1869.

The expenditure was



The land revenue* prior to 1864 was Rs. 8,.36;902; since then it was raised year by year. The increment up to 1872 was Rs. 8,48,729, or 41 per cent..; it now falls at the rate of Re. 1-15-2 per acre on cultivation according to the field survey the revenue survey, however, makes the cultivation much less, and the barren land much greater, than that which has been adopted If the revenue survey is correct^ the land as the basis of assessment. revenue is much heavier per acre than is recorded above.

In 1874, establishment was sanctioned for the purpose of revising and reducing the land revenue. The balances

of Jand

revenue were iu

1872 1873

Ea. 99,904 1,75,203

These sums amounted, respectively, to 8 and 14 per cent, of the total demand. Of this latter sum, Rs. 1,61,590 were due by sixteen taluqdars, and only Rs. 13,618, or less than 8 per cent., by the large body of zamindars, which pay nearly 30 per cent, of the revenue. It would not, however, be fair to argue from this that the larger landowners pay their revenue less punctually. The balances accumulated from 1867 to 1871 amounted to Rs. 26,000.

The following tables are from the Accountant-General's office, and apply to the financial year ending 81st March 1872 and the provincial financial year ending 80th September. It will appear that the imperial and local expenditure amounted, respectively, to Rs. 2,14,192 and Rs. 1,54,058,—total, • Eevenue Form No.

45, 1872-73.