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and all such fines, when recovered, shall be carried to the account of 

 Government. 



Extract from " Pioneer? 



" This patient, underpaid, illiterate, tricky, and corrupt personage, 

 is at the bottom of all the returns that form the recreation of Indian 

 officials and the despair of statistician sat home. How fares it with 

 the patwari in the wilds of the Central Provinces ? Mr. Fitzpatrick's 

 report informs us that he is being civilised, educated, and otherwise 

 brushed up in a variety of ways and with highly successful results. If 

 we could see the patwarfs side of the picture, we should probably find 

 that he is having a very bad time of it in the Central Provinces. In 

 the old days, he did pretty much as he liked, and no one asked any 

 questions ; If he was called on for returns, he sat in his house and 

 evolved them ; if he was told to make a survey, he got some one else 

 to do it for him ; but these pleasant days are fast vanishing from the 

 Narbada Valley, as they have vanished from these Provinces. The 

 Land Revenue Settlements are falling in, the energetic Settlement 

 Officer is abroad, and a Commissioner of Settlements, in the person 

 of Mr. Fuller, has proclaimed the new doctrine that the survey and the 

 record of rights must be done by the patwaris and not by a special 

 and imported agency. The patwari, therefore, is made to attend 

 school. He is taught mensuration and the use of the plane-table and 

 chain. If he gets through this ordeal, he is kept hard at work through- 

 out the cold weather, and often up to the rains, surveying his village : 

 and in the rains he is given the inspiriting in-door employment of 

 writing up and tabulating his cold-weather work. If this is not enough, 

 he has arrears of current work in the shape of annual village returns 

 and crop statistics to make up, and he is trotted out whenever the 

 rains break for " field-inspections " and other pacific manoeuvres. It is 

 not surprising if some patwaris find the pace too great, and disappear 

 from the ranks. The survivors form an army of trained and experi- 

 enced land surveyors, who render the Province independent of the 

 extraneous agency of a professional survey department. Compared 

 with the cost of a professional survey, the work is being done by the 

 patwaris and their overseers at an extraordinarily cheap rate, and 

 with sufficient accuracy for all practical purposes. Tne Survey Officer 

 objects to the comparison as unfair, on the ground that the Revenue 



