‘REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1887-88’ [‎62v] (129/531)

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administra
tion OF THE
land:
Gujardt Revenue
Survey.
Poona and Ndsik and
Southern Mardtha
Country Revenue
Survey.
Ratnagiri Revenue
Survey,
Expenditure.
Measurements.
BOMBAY ADMINISTRATION REPORT. [1887-S8.
The operations of the year resulted in an increase in the aiea measuied and a decrease
in the area classed.
The number of field establishments in the Gujarat Party was 4 throughout the year.
Of these 1 which was lent to the Cambay State was employed m surveying the villages
of that State Of the remaining 3, 2 were employed on revision survey operations
in the Ahmedabad district throughout the year, while the third which had also been
emnloved in the same district on similar work up to the middle ot January 1888 was
subsequently transferred to the Panch Mahals district, where it was employed up to the
close of the year in performing de novo a variety of miscellaneous measurement work which
it had previously executed in the season of 1885-86, but the field records of which had
unfortunately been lost in the fire which had occurred at Surat in May 1887 m the head
quarters office of the Party. The revision operations in the Ahmedabad district consisted
of re-measurement and re-classification of the villages in the Daskroi, Gogha,'Dhandhuka,
yiramo-am, Sanand and Parantij talukas of that district, and were carried out on the partial
system! The work in the Cambay State consisted of original measurement, and was per
formed on a plan recommended by the Darbar A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family). which requires that every separate occupancy,
however small in extent, held by one khdteddr (tenant) in one place should be measured
and formed into a separate survey number. The total expenditure of the Gujarat Revenue
Survey amounted to Rs. 1,12,014 against Rs. 75,134 in the previous year. Of this sum
Rs. 75,345 were debited to Government against Rs. 70,427 in the previous year, and the
balance to the Cambay State.
The two branches of Revenue Survey known as the Poona and Nasik Survey, and
the Southern Maratha Country Survey, which had formerly been separate, were during the
year under report amalgamated. The total number of field establishments employed were
20, of which 13 were measuring and 7 classing establishments. Of these, 9 measuring and
5 classing establishments were employed in the districts of the Dekkhan and Southern
Maratha Country, and in the Native States of Miraj, Kurundvad and Jamkhandi. 3
measuring and 1 classing establishments were employed in Khdndesh, and 1 measuring
and 1 classing establishments were employed in the Kanara district. The work in the
Dekkhan and Southern Maratha Country districts consisted of re-measurement and re
classification of the villages in the several talukas of those districts, while that in the
Native States of Miraj, Jamkhandi and Kurundvad consisted of original measurement and
classification of the villages in those States. In Khandesh the work consisted of re-measure
ment of the villages in the Erandol, Bhusaval, Nandurbar, Jamner, Amalner and Jalgaon
talukas, and of re-classification of the villages in the Amalner taluka. The operations in
the Kanara district were confined to original measurement and classification of the villages
in the Sirsi and Siddapur talukas of that district. Altogether the Poona and Nasik and
Southern Maratha Country Survey cost Rs. 2,31,649 against Rs. 3,46,673 in the previous year.
The number of establishments employed in the Ratnagiri Revenue Survey during the
year under report was 9. Of these, 1 was employed in the Janjira State, and the
remaining 8 in the Ratnagiri, Tirana, and KoKba Collectorates. The establishments in the
Tirana and Kolaba Collectorates were employed in x executing the revision measurement and
classification of the villages of the Karjat taluka of the former and of the Pen and Panvel
talukas and of the Uran and Nagothna Pethas of the latter district. In the Ratnagiri
district the establishments were employed on the original measurement and classification
of the villages of the Devgad ffiluka, and on miscellaneous measurement and classification
in the Rajapur and Malvan talukas of that district. The one establishment in the Janjira
State was engaged in executing the original measurement and classification of the villages
in the Mandle, Panchaitan, Shrivardhan and Nandgaon talukas of that State. The total
expenditure on the RatnJgiri Revenue Survey amounted to Rs. 1,59,921, of which
Rs. 1,55,505 were debited to Government against Rs. 1,51,931 in the previous year, and the
balance Rs. 4,416 to the Janjira State.
The total expenditure on survey operations in the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. proper amounted to
Rs. 5,03,584 against Rs. 5,79,183 in the previous year. Of this sum, Rs. 4,62,499 were debited
to Government and the balance Rs. 41,085 to the Native States of Cambay (Rs. 36,669)
and Janjira (Rs. 4,416).
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