A Manual of the Land Revenue Systems and Land Tenures of British India ...

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Superintendent of Government Printing, 1882 - 787 страници

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Страница 19 - Act, conduct the business transacted in the United Kingdom in relation to the government of India and the correspondence with India...
Страница 146 - Company could do was to resolve to end the system of dyarchy and to require the president and council to stand forth as diwan, and by the agency of the Company's servants -to take upon themselves the entire care and management of the revenues as laid down in the directors
Страница 160 - ... stationery of his establishment, for the cost of printing the forms of his rent receipts, for the payment of his lawyers. The milkman gives his milk, the oilman his oil, the weaver his clothes, the confectioner his sweetmeats, the fisherman his fish. The zemindar levies benevolences from his...
Страница 24 - The councils are not deliberative bodies with respect to any subject but that of the immediate legislation before them. They cannot inquire into grievances, call for information, or examine the conduct of the executive. The acts of administration cannot be impugned, nor. can they be properly defended in such assemblies, except with reference to the particular measure under discussion.
Страница 19 - Regulations, so revised, were passed, of which the forty -first declares the purpose of forming into a regular Code, all Regulations that might be enacted for the internal government of the British territories in Bengal. That these Regulations did not exactly comply with the terms of the Act of 1773, while they exceeded the limits of the powers given by the Act of 1 78 1, there can be no doubt.
Страница 517 - ... land revenue assessed on any village shall be first charge on all land in the entire village and on the rents, profits or produce thereof. 242. Land held by bhumidhar or sirdar liable to payment of land revenue.— (1) All land held by a person who is or is deemed to be a bhumidhar or sirdar as such and wherever situate, is liable to the payment of land revenue to the State Government, except such land as may hereafter be exempted whether wholly or partially from such liability by grant of, or...
Страница 556 - Government from all the rayats ; conducts all its arrangements with them, and exerts himself to promote the cultivation and the prosperity of the village. Though .originally the agent of the Government, he is now regarded as equally the representative of the rayats, and is not less useful in executing the orders of the Government than in asserting the rights, or at least in making known the wrongs, of the people.
Страница 19 - ... and disposed of for the purposes of the government of India alone, subject to the provisions of this Act.
Страница 26 - Governor-General in Council, or by any other of the authorities aforesaid, for and in respect of any such non-regulation province, shall be deemed invalid only by reason of the same not having been made in conformity with the provisions of the said Acts, or of any other Act of Parliament respecting the constitution and powers of the Council of India or of the Governor-General, or respecting the powers of such Governors, or Governors in Council, or Lieutenant-Governors as aforesaid.
Страница 591 - was formerly, and is still, very common in Berar. These are the ordinary terms of the batai contract : the registered occupant of the land pays the assessment on it, but makes it over entirely to the metayer, and receives as rent half the crop after it has been cleared and made ready for market. The proportion of half is invariable, but the metayer...

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