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142nd. The boundaries were very well laid down by the Native 

 Deputy Collector, Seyud Nawazish Ali, and the very respectable Tuh- 

 sildar, Meer Muxood Ali. .The villages were so much broken and 

 intermixed, that this was a work of no ordinary difficulty. It was 

 done not only completely, but with the fewest possible complaints, 

 either on the score of partiality or unnecessary expense. 



143rd. This Pergunnah was unfortunately chosen as the one in 

 which a new survey party commenced its operations. The villages 

 often consisted of broken fragments of land, some larger, some smaller, 

 some mere fields, others tracts of cultivated and uncultivated land, 

 scattered about at considerable distances from each other. The only 

 way to survey those villages satisfactorily would have been to make 

 certain defined circuits in different directions, of the ordinary size of vil- 

 lages, and corresponding as nearly as convenient with existing bound- 

 aries, to have surveyed the same circuits professionally, and by native 

 Ameens, and after thus testing the accuracy of the latter, to have taken 

 out from the native field maps the several fields or parcels of land 

 constituting each village, and to have added these up as giving the 

 total area. This however was seldom attempted, and where it was 

 tried, was done so incorrectly as to be nugatory. The native measure- 

 ments were frequently approved, and passed as agreeing with the 

 professional, when the areas surveyed were totally different. The 

 professional survey itself is often grossly incorrect, both in its repre- 

 sentation of the cultivation, and its delineation of the boundaries. The 

 native maps have received scarcely any check, several of them are scarce- 

 ly intelligible, and in many fields belonging to different persons, 

 different Puttees, and even different Mehals, have been grouped toge- 

 ther in one number. 



144th. I have done what I could to remedy this state of things, by 

 examining the boundaries, making additional native maps where ne- 

 cessary, distributing the fields and holdings afresh. Such inaccuracies 

 in the professional maps as I happened to meet with, were noted on 

 their face, but I well know that there are many which must have 

 escaped me. The total areas were taken from the professional survey, 

 so that the total of the Pergunnah, according to the survey, and ac- 

 cording to the settlement papers will agree, but the areas of the 

 several villages will often differ considerably, owing to the adjust- 

 ments which were found necessary. 



145th. This Pergunnah was the highest assessed in the district, and 

 very little increase on the former settlement could be anticipated. 

 Not only was the rate of the former Jumma on the land high, but 

 the land itself is inferior in quality to that of other parts of the dis- 



