'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR, 1910-1911' [‎242r] (67/150)

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value of decrees settled by mutual agreement fell from Rs. 11,91,819 to Rs. 9,48,198.
The amount paid by judgment-debtors was Rs. 8,51,063 and the amount remitted by creditors
gs 96,430* compared with Rs. 9 ^ 47 ) 9^7 ail d Rs. 2,17,675 respectively in the preceding year.
Chap. III.
PBOTECriON.
8. Registration.
For
iptaWs see Annual Report for 19x0-1911, tables under Registration printed in Part VI of
India, and Statistics of British India, Part II, Commercial.
the Statistics of British
1. —Registration under Act XVI of 1908.
1. The total number of Registration offices open at the end of the year 1910 was 280. Registration offices.
A second Joint Sub-Registrar was appointed at Ahmednagar.
2. Balbodh script, which was introduced into five out of ten Marathi-speaking districts, Changes,
was extended during the last year to all the Sub-Registry offices in 8 of the 10 Marathi
districts and to 3 offices in the remaining two districts. The system of returning documents
by registered post is _ working successfully. Other important changes introduced during last
year are :—(i) The issue of a rule under section 22 of the Registration Act requiring lands
mentioned in non-testamentary documents relating to immoveable property to be described
by reference to the maps under the Record-of-Rights in those areas where mapping of sub
divisions of survey numbers is completed. (2) Introduction of printed forms of leases in
Sub-Registry offices of the^ four Deccan Districts. (3) Experimental compulsory registration
of agricultural leases in Thana and Kolaba from 1st August 1910.
3. The total number, of deeds registered in 1910 was 230,886 compared with 228,090 Number of deeds
in the preceding year. This number is the highest yet reached. The increase is observed re g istered -
in Bombay, the districts of the Central Division, Dharwar and the Sind districts.
4. The increase in Bombay is the result of the ordinary growing business of the city,
and that observed in the Central Division is due to improved credit and abnormal expenditure
after the Sinhast year, and to the circumstance that money-lenders were impelled to have new
documents registered since the special two years’ extension of the period of limitation for
foreclosure or sale by mortgagees expired on 6th August 1910.
The application of certain sections of the Transfer of Property Act at the end of 1908
is responsible for the increase in Sind, which has been continuous from that date up to the
end of 1910.
Causes of
fluctuations.
Mortgages in Bombay have slightly decreased this year, this being again counterbalanced
by the increase in leases.
The general decrease of registrations in 1910 in Gujarat, especially in sales in all districts
and in two districts in mortgages, is the result of the dull state of the mill industry, the unstable
price of cotton, a fluctuating grain market and, to a small extent, the establishment of Co
operative Credit Societies.
5. The total receipts of the Department have increased from Rs. 6,75,798 in 1909 to Financial.
Rs. 6,87,489 while the expenditure increased from Rs. 3,47,791 to Rs. 3,67,374. The increase
in expenditure is due to the recent re-organization of the Department which came into force
on 1st June 1910 and involved increases in the salaries of Sub-Registrars, as well as the new
appointments of probationers and peons for six months in the year 1910.
6. The Inspector-General of Registration and the Superintendents of Land Records Inspection,
and Registration examined 15 Registry and 6 Sub-Registry offices, District Registrars 216,
Divisional Inspectors of Registration 196 and District Inspectors of Village Registration 27
Sub-Registry offices.
2.— Registration under Act XVII of 1879.
t l - Dhe^ provisions of Chapters VIII and VIII-A of the Act were in force in Ahmednagar, General,
batara, Sholapur and Poona, during the year.
2 . The number of registrations has declined from 85,034 to 83 , 656 . The decrease is Registration.
°und in Ahmednagar and Sholapur, whereas Poona and Satara show a slight increase. The
vaue of transactions in the aggregate has, however, increased from Rs. 49,49,504 to
T 3, 49 ) 97 ) 369 - The decrease in the total number of transactions is probably due to the fact
at good seasons reduced borrowings and encouraged informal credit transactions. It is
P ar t y the result of the closing of one Village Registration office.
bet ^ t ransac ti° ns between agriculturists and agriculturists numbered 43,495 ; those Parties to
ween sdvkdrs mid agriculturists numbered 24 , 345 . The proportion of the former to the transactions -*
er is slightly higher than last year.
4 - One Village Registry office was abolished during the year in the Satara District, Changes.;
Lre b Recei P ts have fallen from Rs. 33,952 in 1909 to Rs. 33,646 in 1910. The expendi- Financial.
Vilw aS o ls ° decreased fr0m Rs - 46)631 to Rs. 41,643. This is due to the abolition of one
t°tal d e •^' lstr y office and to smaller commissions paid to existing Village Registrars. The
e cit was Rs. 7,997 against Rs. 12,679 i n the previous year.