'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1914-1915' [‎171r] (11/150)

1914-1915-]
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addresses from the City and Rander Municipalities, visited the civil hospital, and
afterwards laid the foundation stone of the Sarvajanik high school hostel ;
while Her Excellency visited the leper asylum and other charitable institutions.
In the afternoon His Excellency drove round the town and visited objects of
interest, and in the evening attended a reception at the Collector’s residence.
His Excellency left Surat the same night and returned to Bombay on the morning
of 17th February. His Excellency visited Poona on the 22nd February, and
again on 3rd March to attend the meeting in honour of the late Mr. Gokhale.
On 17th March His Excellency left Bombay for Delhi where he stayed with
His Excellency the Viceroy up to the 21st and, after visiting Amritsar, Lahore
and Peshawar, returned to Bombay on 30th and then proceeded to Mahableshwar
where he arrived on 31st March 1915.
4. There were no casualties or successions among the principal Ruling Native States.
Chiefs during the year. The Chiefs one and all placed the resources of their
States at the disposal of Government and several of them were permitted to
proceed to the front.
The season was generally good and prosperous except in a few States where *
the kharif crops were poor. The public health was generally good except in a
few States where there were outbreaks of plague and cholera. Education
continued to advance slowly. The statistics of crime remained approximately
stationary.
3. In the Northern Division a large area was measured and classed by the Revenue
Gujarat and Thana field parties. In the Central Division a large party was settlements
engaged in the measurement and classification of in dm villages. They measured
over 47,000 acres and classed over 45,000 acres. A smaller party in the Southern
Division was also engaged in the survey of indm villages. They were also
employed on encroachment cases, road measurements and city surveys. In Sind
the surveyors were mainly occupied in the measurement of sub-divisions of survey
numbers. Revision settlement reports for ten talukas in the Central Division and
ten in the Southern Division were submitted by the Assistant Settlement Officers.
Revision settlement rates were introduced into three talukas of the Kanara district.
Revised irngational settlements were introduced into four talukas, one tapa and .
one deh in Sind. Proposals were framed by the Superintendents of Land Records
for the original settlement of one Government and 45 indm villages. Original
settlements were introduced into twenty indm villages and revision settlements
into eight indm villages. Proposals were framed for the revision of the jctuici of
27 talukdari villages in the Panch Mahals. No important alienation settlements
were made during the year.
6. The attention of the Land Records Department was largely occupied by Land records,
city surveys and the measurement of sub-divisions of survey numbers. In some
cases the latter operations were carried out in conjunction with the re-writing of
the Record-of-Rights, which was in progress in most districts. The measurement
work revealed the fact that the Record was far from accurate in many talukas.
Nearly a quarter of a million sub-divisions were measured in each division of 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 and over 40,000 in Sind. City survey work was in progress in
Nadiad, Borsad, A'nand, Thana, Dhulia, Manmad, Jalgaon, Belgaum and Bagalkot
and was completed in Viramgam, Sholapur, Barsi and Gadag-Bettigen. In
addition, a special survey was made of the sites of seven villages in the Surat
district. Training classes in survey and settlement matters were held as usual
for Junior Collectors and probationary Deputy Collectors, and circle inspectors
were trained in central survey classes.
7. There was a further slight increase in the occupied area of 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. Occupied area,
including Sind. Slight decreases occurred in the Panch Mahals, Broach, Rdnara,