FROM HARINGTON'S ANALYSIS OF THE BENGAL REGULATIONS. CALCUTTA: OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT GOVERNMENT PRINTING, MILITARY ORPHAN PRESS, 1866. PREFATORY NOTE. HARINGTON'S ANALYSIS being out of print, it has been thought advisable to republish that portion of the work embracing the result of his researches into the Revenue system of the Bengal Presidency. The chapters here reprinted will be found to contain much rare and useful information nowhere else available, bearing upon the revenue administration of the native Governments, and the rights in the soil of the various classes of proprietors and occupants in the Bengal Presidency. John Herbert Harington came to India as a Writer in 1780, when Warren Hastings was Governor General. Mr. Harington, at first an Assistant in the Revenue Department, was in 1783 promoted to be Revenue Persian Translator, a post which he held for ten years. In 1793, during the Governor Generalship of Lord Cornwallis, he was appointed Judge of Dewanny Adawlut and Magistrate of Dinajpore; and in 1796, Register of Sudder Dewanny and Nizamut Adawlut. In 1799, being the year after the arrival of Lord Wellesley in this country, Mr. Harington became fourth Member of the Board of Revenue; and in 1801, he was elevated to the bench as Judge of the Sudder Dewanny and Nizamut Adawlut. Between the years 1805 and 1809, after a career of four and twenty years' employment in the Revenue and |