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 BELL ARY.

248 30,000 armed men,

upon

in the pay of 80 different chiefs, were quartered and maintained entirely by forcible requisitions from classes. Colonel Monro, the first Collector, surveyed

the people,

the cultivating the

Ceded Provinces,

Bellary included



and, assessing the lands at

something below the average of the nominal revenue under the Mysore rulers and the Nizam, settled for each field directly with the actual cultivator. The revenue collections from the Bellary taluks, during the

nine years

in which this system obtained, averaged annually In 1808, the Ceded Tracts were divided into the two


 * ^227,i42.

and Cuddapah ; and when the system of triennial was introduced in the following year, the revenue collections

Districts of Bellary

leases

in Bellary' alone rose to ;j^249,5i4 per

leases were

ten

changed

years a decreased

owing

annum.

In 1812, the triennial end of the

to decennial, the result being at the

average of receipts, ^243,207,

—a

to the general reduction of assessment directed in

decrease 1820.

In

1822, the original system of settling with the cultivators direct was reverted to, and a further general decrease of assessments introduced.

The

result was a further reduction of the average of land revenue, pure and simple, between the years 1822 and 1830 to ^207,373 per annum between 1830 and 1840 it rose to ^^292,000 between 1840 and 1850, fell again to ^22 1,000 and between 1850 and 1869, rose to ^^336,000.





On

the 5th January 1882, the old Bellary District was divided into the

two Districts of Anantapur and Bellary. the present District

For administrative purposes

sub-divided into the following 8 taluks, namely,

is

Adoni, Allur, Bellary, Harpanhalli, Havinhudgalli, Hospet, Kudlighi, and Raidrug. Including Anantapur, the total net revenue of the District in 1881-82 amounted to ^^253, 583, as follows: land revenue, ^185,561; dbkdri (spirits and drugs), ;jC49,i87; stamps, Under the name of motarfa a. .di had from an early period been levied from the non-agricultural classes,
 * ,Ci5,6i 7; assessed taxes, ;^32i8.

and being continued under British administration until 1837, yielded, on the average, ^^28,206 per annum. In i860, 7notarfa was formally This in turn was abandoned abolished, and the income tax imposed. in 1865, between which date and 1869 various substitutes, in the shape In 1869 the income tax of licence and certificate taxes, were tried. was again established, and was continued at various rates till 1873. The licence tax has been levied since 1878. Civil justice

munsifs; the

is

administered by four grades of courts,

District

nmnsifs ; the subordinate judge’s

The

of the District judge.

cases



subordinate to

magistrates,

and the

it

The



village

the sessions court for criminal

are the village magistrates, the subordinate

full

finement of prisoners there jail at Bellary.

last is also

—the

and the court

last is

power European magistracy. is

For the con-

a sub-jail in each tdluk, with one District

capable of holding 400 prisoners.

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