The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday July 14 1919

The second is. that the Zemindari (or the office of the Zemindar as it is called in the translation) devolves upon the adopted son of the deceased ; there were certain obligations but they were of the nature of general obligtions applicable in every similar case. [...] " He shall transmit the requisite accounts of his district in the usual Manner signed by hiself and the Canonngoes of the Soubah to the Public Exchequer." In addition to their ojd office of estimating the revenue from the lands here we find them checking on behalf of the Government the accounts on the collection of the revenue and signing with the Zemindar the account sheet which was to be [...] In the unsettled days of Pathan rule it was to the interest of the rulers to preserve the system to ensure facility of collection. [...] The man who stood between the cultivating rayats and the rent gatherer the village-headman the Gram Adhipati had disappeared the whole weight fell upon the rayat. [...] On appeal by the Defendant the lower Appellate Court partly reversed the decision of thE-first Court by disallowing damages to the Plaintiff on the ground that no interest was claimed in the plaint : Held—" The Plaintiff claimed in his plaint damages at the rate of 25 per cent.