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The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday July 28 1919

1919

On the resumption of the sittings of the Judcial Committee on the 17th of June last the list of appeals filed before the Board during the last twelve months was much larger than that in the previous twelve months the respective figures being 45 and 35. [...] In the treaty' between Clive and Mir Jaffer on the event of the latter being made the Nawab dated June 1.757 the ninth article ran as follows :—" All the lands lying south of Calcutta as far as Culpee shall be under the zemindary of the English Company (this was the tract the English had wished for) and all the officers of these parts shall be under their jurisdiction. [...] to the Imprial Sircar from the month Potts (Anno4164) in the year eleven hundred and sixty-four of the Bengal era has been conferred on us to the end that we attend to the rules and customs thereof as is fitting nor in the least circustance neglect or withhold the vigilance and care due thereto that we deliver into the treasury in the proper times the due rents of the Sircar that we b [...] the zemindary of the Rajah Tilluckchand in the District of the Subah of Bengal." We seem to have here all the links of the chain a superior Zemiiirlar under him the subordinate Zemidars and Talukdars the chiefs of the villages the husbandmen (the tenants as will be seen later on was the generic term for under-tenurholders of every description) with the Revenue Officers or Conoungoes wa [...] Sykes writes to the Committee to say that he has " compleed the business " the NaWab consented to " throw all the affairs of the Government into the hands of Mahommad Reza Khan Dullab Ram and Jagat Set the Mnisters appointed by us:" As mentioned before the Dewanee was formally granted on the 12th of the next month.
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