'ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY, FOR THE YEAR 1909-1910' [‎162v] (56/148)

CHAPTER II—ADMINISTRATION' OF THE LAND.
Tidal observations.
Levelling.
Alagnetic survey.
Northern Division.
Central Division,
1.
1 G-TiEAT Tbigonometkical Stjevey.
Operations were eontinued by Party No. 6 of the Southern Circle Survey of India, whieh
surveyed 1,609 square miles partly on the 1 and partly on the - scale m the East Kh&desh
surveytu ^ ^ ^ aar . m *i AS n f forest boundaries were traversed.
L,ouy square miles paiuiy uia .
Vw odditin. linear miles of forest boundaries were traversed
2.—Tidal and Levelling Operations, and Magnetic Survey.
1 Tidal operations were carried on by means of self-registering- tide-guages at tbe ports of
Aden and Karachi and at the Apollo Bandar and Prince's Dock m the port of Bombay. These
observations were inspected during the year and the tide-guages were cleaned and adjusted.
2. Levelling was continued in Sind along the North-Western Railway from Walher Station
to Rohri Station 5 and also from Shikarpur to Jaeobabad and nine principal and secondary
stations were connected by levelling from Got Mir Muhummad to Clifton. The connection of
standard bench-marks in Jacobabad, Sukkur, Hyderabad and Karachi was completed.
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 a short line of levelling was undertaken from Sewalia H. S. to
Godhra and the connection of standard bench-marks in Surat, Godhra, Baroda, Rajkot and Dhulia
was established. The total distance levelled over in the Bombay 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. is 18S miles.
3. A detachment of No. 18 Party re-observed at nearly all the old magnetic stations to the
west of the line Bombay-Hotgi-Dharwar to determine the values of secular change in this
abnormal area and also surveyed in detail some small areas near Kdrwdr and Ahmednagar.
3.— Revenue Surveys.
1. Two special establishments continued to be entertained, viz., (1) a field party consisting
of 6 permanent surveyors and three temporary hands ; (2) a staff of 5 register writers at the
Central Office, Broach. The following was the work of the party during the field season
(1) measurement of land taken up by the Narol Canal and Giramtha road and miscellaneous
measurement work in the Abmedabad District; (2) measurement of survey works affected by
canals and tanks in the Thasra, Nadiad, Mehmadabad and Matar Talukas of the Kaira
District; (3) breaking up of large survey numbers in the Godhra Taluka and the measurement
of survey numbers on the Left and Right Bank Canals of the Muvalia Tank in the Dohad
Tffiuka of the Panch Mah&ls District; (4) measurement of survey numbers intersected by
roads in the Surat District. In all 2,144 survey numbers comprising 4,704 acres
were measured and 234 numbers with an area of 1,350 acres were classed. During
the recess the recess examination was carried out and three of the permanent Surveyors
were deputed to instruct Circle Inspectors at Ahmedabad. Tbe District Inspectors carried out
the tests of measurement and classification in their districts, the staff of five Register
Writers prepared Himayat statements, and copied classification works and Akarbands.
The Central Record Office prepared the Revision Settlement papers of the Kalol Taluka in
the Panch Mahals District and did miscellaneous work connected with the survey of the
Hdlol and Dohad Mahals. In Thana the services of the temporay staff engaged in preparing
copies of Warkas Phalni classification books were dispensed with on completion of the work.
Two Circle Inspectors are specially appointed for preparing Kam Jasti Patraks regarding
Udapa survey numbers and for measuring tbe villages of Yalnai and Wadhwan. Three measuring
parties and one classing party are engaged on the survey of the Tfilukdari estates iQ
Ahmedabad. Two of the parties carried out field work in 54 villages (comprising 121,
acres) of the Dhandhuka Taluka; the third did similar work in 30 villages or 64,678 acies
of the Gogha Mahal. The classing party completed 229,121 acres in 65 villages of the
Dhandhuka Taluka. In the Panch Mahals a mixed party of measurers and classers were
engaged, 21,887 acres were measured in 17 villages of the Mehtral Estate in the Godhra
Tdluka and classification work was done over 47,474 acres in these villages and in the villag 63
of the Limdi and Golana estates of the Dohad Taluka. Field work in the Panch Mahals is now
completed.
t The Central Division Field Party and two additional field parties were entertained
dining the year. The work done was the complete measurement and classification o ^
villages, the complete measurement of 8 villag-es, the partial measurement of 4 and i° a o
survey in 4. The second additional field party measured and classed the disforested an
in 49 villages of the Nandgaon Taluka, comprising 37,786 acres and also measure s
ivisions. The total area measured by the Central Division field party was 36,513 1
wiiiie the two additional parties measured 70,155 acres. Classification was accompiisn