104 REVENUE SURVEYS. 



North-West Provinces, four in Bengal, two in Bombay, and one in 

 Assam. 



On the 31st December 1878 Major-General Vanrenen retired from 

 the post of Superintendent of Bevenue Surveys, after 39 years' 

 service under Government, of which 32 had been passed in the 

 Bevenue Survey Department. "When that branch of the survey was 

 separated into two circles in 1866 he was appointed Superintendent 

 of the Lower Circle, and subsequently on their re-amalgamation in 

 1876 he became Superintendent of Bevenue Surveys. He left behind 

 him many evidences of valuable work which had been carried out 

 under his supervision, first as an executive officer, and afterwards as 

 administrator of a large department. He was succeeded by Major 

 J. Sconce, S.C. 



The Punjab. —The Dera Ismail Khan, Bannu, and Bawal Pindi 

 Districts Bevenue or Muzawar Survey on the 4-inch scale was 

 continued by Major-General Johnstone, C.B., up to the close of 

 the season 1877-78, when he retired after 35 years' service, during 

 23 years of which he had been in charge of a party. General 

 Johnstone is mentioned as a talented and able officer, with con- 

 siderable experience of the frontier and the tribes inhabiting the 

 same. 



Two surveyors belonging to this party, Messrs. G. B. Scott and 

 A. J. Gibson, were attached to the expeditionary columns under 

 General Keyes and Boss into the Jowaki country, and with the 

 exception of about 50 square miles of the hills occupied by the 

 Hassan Khele (being the easternmost portion contiguous to British 

 territory) the whole of this country was surveyed on the 4-inch scale. 

 Captain Beavan and Mr. Scott also made a rough but fairly accurate 

 map of the Jxohat pass, with the hills, villages, and other adjacent 

 features. In the following year the Bannu district was completed 

 under Lieutenant-Colonel Macdonald, and the survey of the military 

 camps near Murree was undertaken, in addition to the ordinary 

 work, in 1881. In 1S82-S3 the Tlial country of Muzaffargarh 

 district, at the extreme south of the area of work, was taken in hand 

 by one section of the party while the other surveyed the Kala Chitta 

 Pahar, a wild gloomy tract in the north of the Bawal Pindi district, 

 which a quarter of a century ago had a bad reputation as a place of 

 refuge for robbers and murderers, but which has since settled down 

 under the quieting effects of British rule. 



