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reclaimer, in consideration of the expence incurred by him in the enterprise. 

 By the term Paekasht, is implied all lands which are cultivated by non-resident 

 tenants. In the Tarai, the system of rents is, in some respects, different. The 

 estates there are, generally speaking, of large extent, but none are permanently 

 inhabited with the exception of the villages of the Tharus 2^x\di Bogsas^ in the 

 low Tarai, adjoining RohilMiand. In these, the rents are calculated by the 

 plough of land at an easy rate, never exceeding the proportion of one-tenth 

 of the gross produce. In the upper parts of the Tarait the farms are tempo- 

 rarily occupied by the hill Z^emindars during the cold season ; during the re- 

 mainder of the year, the danger of the climate occasions their almost total 

 desertion. The 7^abi crop, consequently, forms the chief source of rent to the 

 Mdlguzdr : the individual rates vary from four annas to three rupees the 

 plough, according to the supply of water available for irrigation. 



The local divisions having been found inconveniently numerous for the 

 purposes of account and management, many of the petty divisions have re- 

 cently been united to the adjoining pergunnas, of which they will, in future, 

 form sub-divisions, while a few districts, composed of villages dispersed in va- 

 rious parts of the province, have also been broken up, and their villages re- 

 incorporated with their original pergunnas. 



By these arrangements, the number of pergunnas has been reduced to 

 twenty-six, as detailed in statement (A.) 



The revenue establishments now consist of four Tahsildaris, the relative 

 extent and expence of which are as follows : — 





No. of Villages. 



Animal Jumma. 



Annual Expence. 



Kamaon Hazur Tahsil, 



Kali Kamaon, 



4421 

 1162 

 2241 

 1210 



90253 

 28940 

 28149 

 29321 



3030 

 2106 

 2148 

 2148 



Gerhwal SriDagar, , , 



Chandpurj * 



Total, .. 



9034 



176663 



9432 



