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 374 SIT The table No. IV. merely states how many villages are zamindari, patti- dari, and bhayyachára. The taluqdari villages are recorded at 937 in form No. IV., but at 1,019 in a list of their estates furnished by the Deputy Commissioner. There are about 1,150 villages in estates paying above Rs. 5,000 revenue. Soils.--We find, what are called first, second, and third class soils in the following proportions :- 1st class 2nd + 19:56 69-39 11.06 > .. ard .. The first class in this district is matiár or clay, which in all other districts has been reckoned second class. Appendix No. IV., Settlement Report, shows us at a glance how many mauzas in the collectorate are zamindari and how many taluqdari, noting at the same time how many of the latter are held in sub-settlement. From it we learn that 937 villages, being 36 per cent. or a little more than one-third of the entire number, are in taluqas, and that of these only 43 have been decreed in sub-settlements. But this does not represent the entire under-proprietary rights of the ex-zamindars, for column 4 of the same statement informs us that in 146 other villages smaller holdings, that is to say sír, dihdári, and nánkár lands, have been decreed. The sub-tenures.- In every instance whether of an entire village, a por- tion of village or a sír, &c., holding, the rent payable by the sub-proprietor to the taluqdar has been fixed for the term of the present settlement at an amount in the computation of which the two principal factors are, the rent payable under native role, and that now assessed by the settlement officer as payable by the taluqdar. Speaking gencrally, no under-proprie- tor pays for his tenure more than 75 or less than 60 per cent of the esti- mated gross rental “ nikási khám." In some cases we find the ex-zamin- dars with rent-free nánkár and dihdári lands, but this is exceptional. From Appendix No. VII. we gather that the profits of the general body of under-proprietors amount to Rs. 27,531 for the whole district. Of sír land the statement would show that each sub-proprietor has acres 36. But this is not quite correct, for each of these sub-proprietors has a number of pattidars or co-sharers, perhaps ten or even fifteen on an average, which would bring each actual sub-proprietor's holding down to ten or fifteen kachcha bíghas. And as these ten or fifteen co-sharers in the natural order of things increase and multiply, their tenures will be furthor split up, so that we may expect in the course of another genera- tion to find a very numerous body of small under-proprietors living more or less from hand to mouth, except in the case of thosc families who may be fortunate enough to have a sop or brother in Government employment, and thus able to contribute ready money towards meeting the rent on quarter day. This, however, is only a speculative contingencey which need not be dwelt upon here. The taluqdari villages. The statement further shows that the 937 taluqdari villages are distributed among thirty taluqas, the areas of which, with the Government demand payable on the same, and the profits of the taluqdars, are detailed in Appendix No, VII,