Report of the Land Revenue Settlement of the Lucknow District (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ... and a considerable loss of time was the result. But no more enquiries were made, and henceforth unoccupied lands only, and such plots as were already entered upon the nazul lists produced by the Deputy Commissioner, were recorded as nazul. At the end of each mahalla volume, is an abstract of all the nazul property in the mahalhi with Nos. referring to their place in the district nazul lists. And the results have been finally collected and put into one statement. 9. The survey was effected by marking out the boundaries of the Police Divisions of the City and taking the mahallas that compose them as sub-divisions. 10. The survey does not now, however, include the whole of the city lying within the jurisdiction of the city authorities. There are some other thity-nine villages--which shall be presently given, --lying chiefly to the north, or left bank oftheGumti, which are wholly or fn part, included in the city, but of which a survey was considered unnecessary, because they had already been brought under settlement operations, and demarcated by the Settlement Department. But such a measurement as they had received was not the same as the measurement contemplated by the city survey. The settlement Survey showed only the extent of the area of the abadf of the village, it did not show how the abadi was made up in detail, and Mr. Harington, on reporting the completion of the actual measurement, adverted to "the advisability of "utilizing a well-trained establishment for the purpose of "securing a record and map, such as the authorities in charge "of the city lands and tenements ought to have." But the project was not approved of; the Financial Commissioner replying, "that he could not propose that Government "should sanction any ...