1839.] Report on the District of Azimgurh. 125 



123rd. The formation of an accurate map of the whole district lias 

 enabled the local authorities to fix a regular boundary with the neigh- 

 bouring districts, and to determine the limits of the several Pergun- 

 nahs, Tuhsildaries and Thannah jurisdictions. The greatest possible 

 efficiency has thus been given to the several establishments, and the 

 comfort of the people greatly consulted. The statements inserted 

 after paragraph 5 present a complete view of the organization of the 

 Mofussil establishments of Revenue and Police, which has been thus 

 effected. 



124th. The accounts of each village with the Government were 

 adjusted at the time of settlement. Arrangements were made for the 

 liquidation of any outstanding balance of land revenue, or tuccanee, or 

 the remission of the demand determined. The items in deposit regarding 

 the village were examined, and either refunded, carried to the account 

 of Government, or otherwise disposed of, as was necessary. The several 

 items standing under the head of law charges, and arising out of 

 previous litigation between the Government officers and the different 

 villages were adjusted. The confusion into which the accounts had 

 fallen, rendered the careful execution of a work like this, at such a 

 period, important in its financial results, and a great accommodation to 

 the people. At the same time it tended to bring more completely 

 before the settlement officers several considerations which were es- 

 sential to the formation of a right estimate of the capabilities of each 

 village. 



125th. The arrangement of villages at the time of settlement, made 

 after the limits of the district and its several subdivisions had been 

 fixed, as shewn in the general statements furnished with the report on 

 each Pergunnah, has also been the basis of a system of registry and record 

 for the whole district. The Pergunnah number attached to each 

 village in the general statement, is the same that is borne by the 

 bundle in the Record Office, which contains all the proceedings that 

 have reference to that village. The lists attached to these bundles are, 

 in fact, registers of all the transactions that have affected each village. 



126th. Having thus sketched the general operations pursued in the 

 district, it will be of some practical use to notice the particular degree 

 or method in which they were carried into execution in each Pergun- 

 nah. I will endeavour to do this faithfully and impartially, with all 

 the light which subsequent experience has thrown on the earlier ope- 

 rations in the district. 



127th. Pergunnah Nizamabad is the largest and most important 

 in the district. It was first selected for settlement soon after the pass- 

 ing of Reg, vn, 1822, and was the field where every young officer 



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