Appendix. 153 



No. 1382, 

 FROM 



T. T. ALLEN, ESQ., 



Superintendent and Remembrancer Of Legal Affairs* 

 To 



THE SECRETARY TO THE BOARD OF REVENUE, 



LOWER PROVINCES. 



DATED CALCUTTA, the 2&k fatty., 1887. 

 SIR, 



IN reply to your No. I A of the I3th instant, I have the honor to 

 say that in my opinion Sections 18, 19, and 20 of Regulation XII of 

 1817, having never been acted upon, must now, after the lapse of (70) 

 seventy years, be deemed obsolete, and no action can be taken under 

 them. The relations of zamindars and ryots have, during this interval 

 utterly changed. Such a proceeding, as it is proposed now for Collec- 

 tor or Deputy Collector, to draw up, would, I expect, be treated as 

 simple nullity by the Civil Court. If the zamindar on the ground of 

 custom claims to recover from his ryots the patwarfs pay, he must 

 prove the custom in the Civil Court. The Deputy Collector's 

 proceeding which embodies merely his opinion would not even be 

 evidence in such a case. 



THE BEHAR LIGHT HORSE. 



THE " first Volunteer Regiment on the Indian Army List, * The 

 Behar Light Horse ' of the present day, was organized as the ' Behar 

 Mounted Rifle Corps' in September 1862 with the consent of Govern- 

 ment." Fifty-three of the planters of Tirhoot having already formed 

 themselves into a corps, they forthwith, on the i6th July 1862, for- 

 warded the following memorial to the Government of Bengal, desiring 

 incorporation, through the Commissioner of Patna : 

 " From certain residents in the districts of Tirhoot and Chuprah, to 

 the Commissioner of Behar, (dated the i6th July 1862). 



SIR, We, the undersigned residents in the districts of Tirhoot 

 and Chuprah, beg to forward, through the Magistrate of Tirhoot, 

 " for submission to the Government of India," our most loyal applica- 

 tion, to be enrolled as members of a Volunteer Corps. 



