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slips being compiled from the hhusras during the ensuing recess, and 

 both hhusras and slips being then completed by having the field areas 

 entered in them. The papers were then ready to be handed to the 

 settlement staff, who took the field the following season to attest the 

 jamabancli entries, and complete all other papers connected with the 

 record of rights. The Benares system was for the settlement staff 

 to take the field along with the survey staff, and for the two depart- 

 ments to work in co-operation, so that all the papers could be 

 prepared in one season. Briefly stated the system was : — 1st, the 

 settlement staff supplied the survey amins with such information as 

 would enable the entries in the hhusras, regarding the shares of the 

 proprietors and the occupancy rights of the cultivators, to be correctly 

 recorded. 2nd, the village patwari accompanied the amin during 

 the survey, and wrote a copy of the hhusra exactly similar to the 

 amin's copy (except that it was in the Nagri instead of in the Persian 

 character), writing also concurrently in the jamabancli slips, which 

 had been previously distributed to each cultivator, the " numbers " 

 of the fields as they were surveyed. 3rd, the patwari s copy of the 

 Ihusra and the jamabancli slips were at once made over to the settle- 

 ment staff, with a manuscript tracing of the village map to allow of 

 any disputes being settled. 4th, the computations of field areas were 

 then carried out in the survey office, so as to complete the Persian 

 copy of the hhusra, which was then made over to the settlement 

 staff, who in due course transcribed the areas on the jamabancli slips, 

 and thus prepared these for final attestation. The exact procedure is 

 i xplained in a joint memorandum drawn up by Mr. F. "W. Porter, 

 Settlement Officer, and Major TV. Barron, Deputy Superintendent of 

 Survey, which is given at page SS of the appendix to the Surveyor 

 General's Beport for 1882-83. 



After six months' trial of the system, these two officers submitted 

 icports on it? working, showing conclusively that very great 

 a lvantages ensued from the joint inter-working of the settlement 

 and survey staffs, while the additional duty of khusra-writing did 

 Lot add to the cost of the survey. 



In 1S83-S4 Basti district came into the field of operations, and 

 Major W". Barron, who had conducted the work for several years 

 with great zeal and ability, ft-as granted furlough to Europe through 

 d'.-health, Mr. G. H. Cooke, first, and Major S. H. Cowan, next, 

 assuming charge. In 18S4-85 certain modifications were introduced 



