Assam Land Records Manual 4

PREFATORY NOTE TO THE EDITION OF 1919The Assam Land Records Manual was brought into force in all the plains districts of the province with effect from the year 1906-07, with the temporary exception of two districts in Assam Valley then under resettlement, by the Chief Commissioner’s Resolution No. 5606-21R, dated the 7th October, 1905. Thus the Manual applied from 1st April 1906 to the Surma valley, to the temporary-settled areas of which and of Goalpara the system of field mutations had already been expressly extended by Resolution No.5367R., dated the 21st September 1905, though those areas were excluded from the establishment of the circle system introduced by this Resolution. The only part of the temporarity-settled area of Sylhet where the Manual is not entirely in force is the Ilam area, where the Chief Commissioner decided that the patwaris are not to record crops or to correct the maps except to show new settlements [Revenue Department letter No. 925-Rev.-3637R., dated the 7th September 1903, to the Director of Land Records and Agriculture, a copy sent to Deputy Commissioner, Sylhet, with my office No.2854, dated the 12th September 1903]. The deliberate inclusion of the Surma Valley is noted here for the benefit of officers serving there because there has been a tendency to regard the Manual as mainly applicable to the Assam Valley districts, partly because the words “mandal” “dariabadi” and others peculiar to these districts were used in the old Manual, and partly because of the numerous prsecriptions regarding the survey of new land which hardly exists in the greater part of the Surma Valley. It must not be forgotten that there are large areas in the Assam Valley districts in which cultivation is as stable as it is in the Surma Valley do in the Surma Valley and that mutations form the principal Work in them as they do in the Surma Valley. In order to-remove any doubts arising from nomenclaure the word “recorder” has been substituted in the English edition of this revised Manual for the word “mandal” and an endeavour has made to avoid the use of all other names peculiar to the Assam Valley districts. In the Assamese and Bengali translation of the Manual the nomenclature appropriate to either Valley will be used and there is no intention to abolish. either the mandal or the patwari and to call both recorders. Where fluctuating cultivation or waste land does not exist, the rules regarding the assessment of such land will not apply in either Valley: the rules referred to are given in the list below which it is hoped is fairly complete. 1 List of Rules which generally have no application in settled and established areas 17-18.– Unsurveyed areas. 19.– Assessment of new land. 20.– Striking -off of land from assessment rolls. 21-22.– Relinquishment. 23.– Faut, ferar and jotrahin lists. 35.– Simul trees marking theodolite stations. 43.– Verification of relinquishments. 45.– (No application in Sylhet). 46.– Safeguard against assessing highland rice twice over. 47.– Numbering new fields. 48-52.– Fluctuating areas. 58-59.– Treatment of sarkari dags. 79.– Mapping of new cultivation. 80.– Verification of relinquishments. 81.– Preparation of faut, ferar and jotrahin lists. 83.– Particulars of new fields. 87.– Verification and classification of areas. 90.– Annual jamabandi. 106– Inking of periodic fields on the map. 109.– Survey for supplementary settlement. 112.– Supplementary settlement pattas. The 3rd April, 1918 J. McSWINEY, Director of Land Records and Agriculture, Assam. 2 PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION Since the Manual was last published, remarkable changes have taken place throughout the State. The country has attained independence, vast schemes of development under the successive Five Year Plans have broken the age long isolation of the village, population has increased phenomenally, land has become scarce relinquishment rare, Jungles have disappeared and cultivation has extended to the sandy churs of the Brahmaputra and the rocky slopes of the Himalayas. No wonder that such changes would have their impact on land administration and, consequently, on the land-records. Thus, squatting has since been prohibited, tribal belts have been created, payment of premium has been made obligatory before conversion of annual land to periodic, ceiling on new settlement of lands has been imposed, and powers of the primary settling authority have been drastically cut. 2. Nevertheless, over the years, experience has shown that the basic structure of the land-records will remain unchanged for a long time to come. The chitha, the jamabandi, the field map, the field-mutation, the extension survey, the crop-re-cording, –all these will continue to form the foundation of the land records so long as the present system of land administration remains. The changes called for by the circumstances mentioned in the preceding paragraph do not alter the basic structure and so these have been incorporated in this edition without disturbing the original arrangement of the book. There is some advantage in keeping the original arrangement undisturbeds because not only the staff but even the villagers have become acquaintedn with the serial number and contents of some long-standing an important rules of this Manual, such as for example, rule 105 dabout conversion of annual patta to periodic, rule 13 about issue of D.L.R’s certificate for survey, rule 6 about residence of a recorder, rule 211 about field mutations and so on. 3. The rules in respect of which imporatant changes have been made in this edition are mentioned below :– Rule 1.– Appeal against the order of appointment of recorder has been provided for. Rule 4 and Rule 126.– Punishing and appellate authority with regard to punishment of Supervisor Kanungos and recorders and the limitation period for appeals have been clarified. Rule 12.– The original rule regading free-stuentship to a young man of a backward locality has been deleted. Rule 15.–The rule has been slightly recast to suit modern conditions. Rule 25.– This rule about crop-inspection tours has been recast in view of the increased number of crops to be recorded. Rule 56 to Rule 69.– The entire section relating to the chitha has been recast in 3 view of the new forms of the chitha that has been prescribed as a result of the direction of the Government of India to adopt nine.fold classification of land use and to record a large number of new crops and to collect other collateral information. The 10th May. Rule 112.– These have been recast. Rule 105. substantially altered. Rule 125. has been renumbered as Rule 58. J. e. 1964 Director of Land Records.– The portion relating to the power of the recorder to mutate names of occupants in annual pattas in Lakhimpur and Darrang Districts as provided for in the original rules has been deleted. Rule 209 A to Rule 209 C. Rule 214 A to Rule 217 A. area under mixed crops..– Appeal against order of appointment of Supervisor Kanungo has been provided for.– These have been rearranged and renumbered for the sake of convenience. Rule 57 and Rule 82.g. Assam. N. and so on. The old rule 57. re-arranged and renumbered so as to be in conformity with Government’ new settlement policy. DAS. area under irrigation. sources of irrigation.– This rule has been completely recast so as to provide for preparation of various abstracts on a uniform all-India basis. 4 .– This well-known rule has been recast so as to provide for payment of premium and for the restrictions already prescribed in the Settlement Rules under the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation. ........ 176-179 68–69 Diary .II KANUNGOS SECTION .......... 135-139 60 Duties-General.. ....... 140-146 60–61 Check of field work .. .......CONTENTS Part -I Recorders Rule Pages Section 1.... .. . 172-175 67–68 Returns ... 5 ............... . 70-75 38–39 “ 6 Spring Tour ... . ............. 160-171 65–67 Registers ... 134 59 .......... .......... ... . 114-124 54–55 Part .... .... .. .............I SUPERVISOR KANUNGO Appointment... .. 57-69 28–38 “ 5 Jamabandi .... ... ...... ....... . .......... . ... 110-113 49–54 “ 10 Unsurveyed areas .. ..... 85-106 42–47 “ 8 Winter Tour ...... .. ........... 147-159 62–65 Check of recess work . .. .. 76-84 39–41 “ 7 Summer recess . ............ . . 15-38 8–20 “ 3 Field map ...... ............ . 125-133 Information to rayats 56-59 ....... punishment.. .... . promotion. . Appointment and qualifications 1-14 1–8 “ 2 Duties-General . etc. ................ 107-109 47–48 “ 9 Winter recess ... ............ .... . 39-56 21–27 “ 4 Chitha ..... transfer. . . ......... .. ....2 REGISTER KANUNGO Appointments.. ..... ... 197 77 Sub-Deputy Collector’s diary. ... . .... ...... 192-196 75–77 Crop Statement ..... .. 223 93–94 Deputy Commissioner and Subdivisional Officer 224 95 Director and Assistant Director of Land Records 225 95–96 ... 209 81–83 Mutations and field partitions . . ..... .. 201 78 . . ... 222 91–93 Registers .. .. ....... etc................ . ......... .. 206-208 80–81 .......... .. . 188-191 74 Instruments forms................... . 221 91 Annual returns .. Orders of Deputy Commissioner ..... ... PRT – IV INSPECTION 6 .......... 204 79 Diary ............. 203 79 Recess .... 198 78 Pay bills . ..... .. ... .. ... .. ... .. . . 199-200 78 .... .. Check of work Settlement of Waste land ... . .... . . 180-181 69–70 Maintenance of Jamabandi register ..... . .. . . ...... 182-187 70–74 Records and Maps ... register .. ....... 205 79–80 .. 210-217 83–90 Survey .... ....... 218 90 Diaries of staff and instruments .SECTION .... 202 78–79 Tour . . ....... ..... 219-220 90–91 Revenue enquiries . PART – III SUB-DEPUTY COLLECTORS Duties-general ... .... ........... stationery... .. . .. – Resolution of Government dated 25th September 1958 on settlement of agricultural lands. Appendix B. Appendix C. III. – Points for inspection. Non-standard forms. II.APPENDICES Appendix A. irrigation abstract. Appendix D. Standard forms. – Instruction of Government dated 6th March 1959 on the Government Resolution of 25th September 1958. crop abstract. Revised forms of chitha. – I. 7 . area abstract. 8 .The sanction of the Director of Land Records shall be obtained prior to appointment of a qualified man over 25 years of age and such appointment should be made only in very special circumstances. Subject to the sanctioned cadre of the district. will exercise the powers of the Deputy Commissioner in respect of temporary. Settlement Officers.LAND RECORDS MANUAL PART I-RECORDERS SECTION I. Transfer During the currency of a Re. (1) Deputy Commissioners. transfer and promotion. Promotion 3.Appointment and qualification.(a) Recorders are appointed by the Deputy Commissioner but during the resettlement period additional temporary recorders purely for the purpose of resettlement operation may be appointed by the Settlement officer. (c) An appeal from the order of the Director of Land Records shall lie to the Government in the Revenue Department within a period of 90 days from the date on which the appellant receives a copy of the order appealed against. in their respective jurisdictions and subject to the restrictions hereinafter mentioned impose on the recorders under mentioned penalties. In case of a qualified candidate belonging to Scheduled Tribe or Scheduled Caste the age limit may be relaxed up to 30 years. The Deputy Commissoiner can transfer a recorder from one lot to another within his district but no resident recorder should be transferred from his lot without the sanction of the Director of Land Records.settlement Operation. the grant of grade promotion to a recorder rests with the Deputy Commissioner. 1. 4.Deputy Collectors and Assistant Settlement Officers may. the Settlement Officer. Sub. . The sanction of the Director of Land Records shall be obtained prior to appointment of a man who does not possess a certificate of the Assam Survey School or a certificate granted by the Director of Land Records under Rule 13. 2. Sub-Divisional Officers. additional recorders working under the Settlement Officer in matters relating to appointment. Appointment (b) An appeal from the order of Deputy Commissioner for appointment to a permanent post shall lie to the Director of Land Records within a period of 60 days form the date on which the appellant receives a copy of the order appealed against. grade or post or to a lower time-scale. a Sub-Deputy Collector or an Assistant Settlement Officer shall not impose any other penalty than a fine which shall not exceed Rs. 9 . compulsory retirement or reduction shall be passed except in accordance with the procedure laid down in the Assam Services (Discipline and Appeal) Rules.Punishment (i) Censure (ii)Withholding of increments or promotion. removal. (vi) removal from service which shall not be a disqualification for future employment. 1964: Provided further that Sub-Divisional Officer. Provided that no order of dismissal. 5 (five) at a time. (v) compulsory retirement. (iii) recovery from pay of the whole or part of any pecuniary loss caused by negligence or breach of orders to the Government of Assam or the Central Government or any other State Government or any local or other authority to whom services of a Government servent had been lent. (iv) reduction to a lower service. (vii) dismissal from service which shall ordinarily be a disqualification for futurer employment and (viii) fining. or to lower stage in a time scale. Settlement Officer Cmmissioner of Director of Land Records Division. Government in the Revenue Department IV. dismissal. Settlement Officer Settlement Officer Director of Land Records Director of Land Records.Supervisor Kanungos (Permanent)– during resettlement period. Deputy Commissioner Deputy Commi Director of Land Records ssioner Director of Land Records V. Mandals (permanent) during the resettlement period Settlement Officer VI. III . witholding of increments. recovery from paetc. Deputy Commissioner. Punishing authority Minor punishment e. the Settlement Officer will pass order for minor punishment on them during resettlement period. g. RLR 305/58/75. dated 8th October 1963). Deputy Commi Director of Land Records ssioner Director of Land Records Mandals (temporary) during resettlement period.during normal period. censure. Settlement Officer Commissioner of Director of Land Records Division. Government in the Revenue Department. removal. (1) Appellate authority against the order of punishing authority Major punishment e. Mandals (Both permanent and temporary)– during normal period. 10 . Supervisor Kanungos (Temporary)– during the resettlement period. Commissioner of Division Commissioner of Division Government in the Revenue Department *II. Minor punishment (2) (3) Major punishment (4) I. Supervisor Kanungos (Both permanent and temporary).(2) The following table shows the Punishing and Appellate authority with regard to punishment of Supervisor Kanungos and Recorders (Mandals or Patwaris) (vide Revenue Department letter No. compulsory retirement and reduction in rank and pay. g. *(II) Although the Deputy Commissioner is the appointing authority in regard to the permanent staff. the grounds for them. as the case may be.3. A recorder must be a permanent resident with Residence in his lot with his family. 11 . 5. and will be liable to be discharged when he can be replaced by a resident recorder. with the Director of Land Records. if necessary. and if the proposal is based on extension of cultivation. In this connection any direction issued by Government from time to time regarding the standard size of a recorders’ lot should also be borne in mind. land revenue. to Government for sanction. Deputy Commissioner or the Settlement Officer shall lie to the Government. (4) (a) An appeal from the order of the Sub-Deputy Collector / Assistant Settlement Officer/Sub Divisional Officer shall lie to the Deputi Commissioner / Settlement Officer. number of established and fluctuating and of surveyed and unsurvered villages. together with statistics of total and settled area. in the existing and the proposed lots should be clearly set forth. (b) An appeal from the order of the Commissioner. Commissioner or the director of Land Records. within a period of 30 days from the date on which the appellant receives a copy of the order appealed against. Proposals for the redistribution of lots involving neither increase nor decrease in the sanctioned staff of recorders of the district may be sanctioned by the Commissioner after consultation. number of periodic and annual dags. But the Deputy Commissioner may grant exemption from the obligation when the recorder’s home is within two miles of the limit of his lot. the Deputy Commissioner or the Settlement Officer. Increase of staff 6. In submitting such proposals. within a period of 30 days from the date on which the appellant receives a copy of the order appealed against. if any. Exemption may be granted by the Commissioner in other cases but only in exceptional circumstances where he is satisfied that such residence would cause undue hardship. The Director of Land Records will scrutinize and submit them with his recommendation or remarks. as the case may be. Residence A recorder who is not resident within the meaning of this rule or has not secured exemption will receive no promotion in the shape of increment or otherwise. Proposals for the creation or the redistribution of lots involving any increase or decrease in the sanctioned staff of recorders of a district will be submitted by the Deputy Commissioner direct to the Director of Land Records. as the case may be. the newly-settled area for the last three consecutive years. Along with the annual report. Such recorders should submit his application for exemption within two months from the date of his appointment. will forward to the Director of Land Records a statement of all punishment imposed during the year on the recorders of his district. The normal qualifications required of a candidate for appointment as recorder are– (1) He must be 18 years of age or over and not above 25 years. whether substitutes are taken or not. 12 . one may be appointed on grade pay for such period. a recorder must make a declaration of all immoveable property held or acquired by himself. The Deputy Commissioner will make necessary arrangement for sending them to the Assam Survey School as early as possible. the age limit may be relaxed upto 30 years. as the recorder under training may require to enable him to qualify. any right in immoveable property within his lot without specific sanction of the Deputy Commissioner in each case. No recorder is allowed to acquire by direct settlement. physically and morally unfit for the appointment. (3) All recorders who are deputed for training to the Assam Survey School will be eligible for travelling allowance as admissible for Class III Government employees for their journeys to and from the School once only. Survey School Certificate 9. Under the Government Servants’ Conduct Rules. for himself or for any member of his family living with or in any way dependent upon him. his wife or any member of his family living with or in any way dependent upon him. (2) He must hold a certificate from the proper authority that he has passed at least the Middle English or Middle Vernacular or Middle English Madrassa standard of instruction. in the opinion of the Deputy Commissioner. (3) He must possess a certificate of the Assam Survey School or a certificate granted by the Director of Land Records under Rule 13. and during his absence his work may be distributed among the recorders of the contiguous lots. or if in the opinion of the Deputy Commissioner a substitute is required. Qualification 8. Any settlement made in contravention of this rule will be liable to cancellation on the ground of fraud. No permanent appointment will be given to a man who is not resident in his lot or has not been specially exempted from being resident under Rule 6. In case of Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste candidate. (4) He must not be. (1) All persons holding the office of recorder who do not hold a certificate and who have not been exempted will be required to attend the Assam Survey School and to pass the prescribed examination.7. Recorders who are thus deputed for training entitled will be to draw their grade pay during the period of training. (2) Only one recorder at a time will ordinarily be sent from any subcircle to the Survey School. arrangement may be made with the Survey School authorities for a six weeks’ training of suitable candidates in survey work before the field season begins. permanent or temporary. grant survey certificate to uncertificated men who in the course of extension survey have surveyed independently at least 500 Bighas of cultivated land and whose work has been checked and found accurate by an officer not below the rank of SubDeputy Collector/Assistant Settlement Officer. for Survey certificates under this rule. Assam for necessary action.1. with a copy of receipted chalan. deputed for training in the Assam Survey School for regular course or special class course. to the Director of Land Records. if he requires a duplicate should apply to his District Officer or to the Settlement Officer if the district is under resettlement. but in this case. sending with his application a sum of Re. if their work during settlement is found satisfactory and accurate. the owner. Recorders who fail to attend regularly after their names have been entered on the school list will lose their pay for each day of absence except when leave is granted by the Principal of the School on urgent private affairs or in case of sickness supported by medical certificate and accepted by the Principal. 10. 12. These certificates will be given in exceptional circumstances and when an adequate explanation for non-attendance at the Survey School is submitted. 13.Recorders. The District Officer or the Settlement Officer will credit the fee to Government and forward the application. When a certificate has been lost or spoilt. 11. are also allowed pay and other allowances usually admissible to them and also lodging allowance at Rs. 13 . Under special circumstances and after consultation with the Director of Land Records. he will draw no pay until he has succeeded in passing the exmination. Ordinarily all recorders should have passed through the Survey School. The Director of Land Records may. 30 (thirty) Per Mensem during the period of their training. A recorder who fails to pass the examination at the close of his first term of study will be liable to summary dismissal. the Deputy Commissioner may permit a recorder who fails to pass at the end of the first term to remain at the School for a second term. The successful candidates will be given the necessary training in map revision and chitha writing and may later be recommended. on the recommendation of the Deputy Commissioner or Settlement Officer. Recorders holding only the Survey Certificates given by the Director of Land Records should at the earliest be sent to the Survey School to the Refresher Course or less efficient mandals: Provided that during the resettlement operation if sufficient number of trained recorders be not available. (ii) The second category includes recording of area under different crops and other land uses and cropwise irrigated area with source by field-to-field inspection. In surveyed areas. survey of areas newly occupied. assisting Supervisor Kanungo in preparation of crop-forecast and compilation of area. within their budget limits. entries affecting the formerbeing kept up-to-date by correction. (ii) collection of agricultural statistics and (iii) assistance in revenue administration. 25 in each case (individual payments over Rs. he is to assist Mauzadar in preparartion of his records for collection of revenue. field-inspection. The jamabandi for periodically and annually settled holdings will be in Form 3. he is to assist other Government Departments in various miscellaneous works entrusted to him from time to time by the Deputy Commissioner. The records principal duties fall under three broad categories.Reward 14. viz. 25 require the Commissioner’s sanction). It shall continue in use for three years. The chitha will be in the revised form appended. the procedure for carrying out these duties rests upon the maintenance of (a) a field map (b) a field catalogue or ‘chitha’ and (c) a field ledger or ‘jamabandi’. preparation of field-map. assess newly settled lands and detect concealed cultivation. He is to submit report on encroachment of Government land Professional Grazing Reserves Public grazing reserves and other reserved lands. (i) The first category of his duties includes the recording of mutations. crop and irrigation abstracts. rewards (i) for extension survey in accordance with the fixed scale (vide rule 18) and (ii) for good work other than extension-survey upto a limit of Rs. and for the latter only will a fresh jamabandi be annually prepared. and will include all the fields (dags) of a village. conducting crop cutting experiments. compilation of chitha. Deputy Commissioner may sanction. Besides the above. He is to prepare the list of ‘faut’ ‘ferar’ and ‘jotrahin’ lands. 14 . (iii) Under the third category. Fields periodically settled will be recorded separately from fields annually settled. He is to report about damage of crops or other calamities and do all other works given to him by the circle officer in connection with revenue administration. Provision will be made annually for the grant of rewards to recorders who have discharged their duties with conspicuous merit. 16. preparation of record-of-right. (i) maintenance of land Recorders. SECTION 2 –Duties–General Principal duties 15. inspection of survey marks and the keeping of land and revenue records upto date by necessary correction. 6 ’’ ’’ ’’ (iv) Revenue calculation Rs. no attempt need be made to lay down village boundaries.. 19.. Rs. If the different operations in extension survey are carried out by several recorders the reward may be distributed as below:– Unsurveyed 3 paise per bigha. a fair copy of the confused entries should be made at the end of the jamabandi with cross references... The recorder is responsible that all land that is taken up on order of settlement of proper authority on proper application is brought on to the chitha and jamabandi as settled and is assessed.... Each block can be surveyed and plotted independently by triangulation.... per square mile areas their (i) Survey . approximately one chain in 12 bighas and the Sub-Deputy Collector at least one check line in each village.The copy of the periodic jamabandi referred to in these rules is known as the local periodic jamabandi. 60-50p.. and every entry must be compared and initialled by the Supervisor Kanungo. 18. and after surveying and plotting on the map the areas settlement of which has been sanctioned. No map should be passed and no recommendation for rewards made unless the work has successfully come through both these tests.. 6 per square mile (v) Jamabandi writing Rs.. When correcting his map the recorder must have with him all sanctioned applications for settlement of waste land of the current year.. When the settled area lies in detached blocks separated from one another by large stretches of jungles. Recorders whose lots are as yet unsurveyed will be expected to gradually survey them. Recorders who extend the survey of their lots under this rule will be entitled to a reward calculated at 3 paise per bigha of cultivation...... he will endorse the applications to this effect and will return these to office. 15 The assessment of new Land . In extension surveys the Supervisor Kanungo should run at least two linear miles of check lines in each square mile of survey i. In unsurveyed areas no map is maintained but the same form of chitha and jamabandi will be used and the records for annual and periodic holdings will be prepared separately...... 17.. 4 ’’ ’’ ’’ (vi) Inking or tracing Rs. its general position being indicated on an index map traced from the quarter inch-Revenue-Survey maps in the district office. Rs. 20 ’’ ’’ ’’ survey : (ii) Chitha writing Rs. 14 ’’ ’’ ’’ (iii) Area calculation Rs.e... 10 ’’ ’’ ’’ For the purpose of making this calculation it will be taken into account all settled dags and small sarkari dags of areas not exceeding 25 Bighas each. When the local periodic jamabandi becomes clumsy or illegible owing to numerous corrections.. It should be noted that a part of a dag cannot be relinquished. The petitions will then be made over to the respective recorders keeping a list in a bound register of the number of petitions made over to each recorder. and all petitions received shall be sorted according to the recorder’s lots. Notices of relinquishment will generally be made over to the recorder under the endorsement of the officer receiving them. While reporting encroachment on Sarkari land suitable for settlement. The petitions should be kept in the circle office until completion of the supplementary settlement papers and then sent to the district or subdivisional record room. or left the village (ferar) or has lost all his resources (jotrahin). The recorder will also be responsible for making a separate chitha and Tauzi-bahir jamabandi of his entire lot for all encroached lands in his lot with a view to facilitate assessment of tauzi bahir revenue. No field that has been assessed to revenue in one year may be removed from the chitha and the jamabandi of the following year unless (a) it has been relinquished under the rules by a written notice. the recorder will briefly mention in his report whether the encroacher is a landless cultivator or is holding land less than 12 bighas in his name and in the name of other members of his joint family. or (c) its settlement has been annulled by order to this effect. The list of petitions made over to recorders should be entered in the bound register from year to year. does not apply to encroachment on Sarkari land and on land reserved for public purposes and on Professional grazing reserves and Village grazing reserves. will check them in the course of his spring tour and return them after enquiry to the Sub-Deputy Collector who will pass orders. The recorder will also prepare a list of persons who hold lands in excess of the limit laid down by the law of ceiling. The striking off of land from the assessment roll Relin quishment 20. (b) it is found to be abandoned and its former cultivactor has either died (faut). 21.This rule. 16 . however. The recorder will note down such unauthorised occupation separately in a blank page in the beginning of the chitha and report to the Deputy Commissioner/Sub-Divisional Officer through the Sub-Deputy Collector for action under Rules 18 and 95 of the Rules under the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation. and the recorder will enter them in a register in Form 5 and will check them in the course of his Spring tour. (2) The recorder will enter the petitions in a register in Form 5. The following procedure will be observed in dealing with relinquishment petition:(1) Every such petition shall be initialled by the Cricle SubDeputy Collector on receipt. in the course of his tours. The changes in revenue will be calculated and entered in the recorder’s jamabandi in red ink. check and initial the recorders’ relinquishment registers and all erasures and interlineations therein in token of their accuracy. 17 Altered assessment of fields converted from agricultural to non-agricultural use. The corrections in the jamabandi register will be checked by the Registrar Kanungo’s in the ordinary way when the recorder attends the Registrar Kanungo’s office. The changed classification will be entered in the chita and the recorder’s class book under the initial of the Sub-Deputy Collector. (4) The recorder will keep the register until the Sub-Deputy Collector has finished checking it and then. These lists are to be checked by the Sub-Deputy Collector during his spring tour and submitted by him to the Deputy Commissioner with his notes and recommendations. 22. . who will destroy it after 3 years. under orders of the Sub-Deputy Collector. (5) Fields (Dags) that have been relinquished will be excluded by the recorder from the chitha and jamabnadi. Faut. The recorder will also during his winter tour make a list in Form K appended. he will deliver it to the district or subdivisonal Record Keeper. of all fields which have been converted from agricultural to non-agricultural use and are liable to altered or additional assessment under the Rules framed under the Assam Land Revenue Re-assessment Act and submit the same to the Sub-Deputy Collector not later than 15th February. The recorder will annually prepare for each village in Form 6 a separate list of all fields abandoned by settlement-holders who are dead (faut). who will be permitted to suggest in writing additions or alterations to the list upto 1st June by which date he must forward it to the Sub-Deputy Collector. If under Deputy Commissioner’s orders the assessment is to be altered or additional assessment imposed. The list in triplicate must be completed by the 1st May. He will maintain a list of such fields on a blank page at the beginning of the chitha and will assess them with the 50 per cent penalty under Rule 25 of Section I of the Settlement Rules framed under the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation. untraceable (ferar) or insolvent (jotrahin) noting whether they were annually or periodically settled. 23. ferar and jotrahin field The recorder should simultaneously make over a duplicate list of such fields to the mauzader. the necessary changes will be included in the regular settlement abstract.(3) The Sub-Deputy Collector should. But he will reinclude fields (dags) the settlement holders of which are found by him to be in possession. 18 . The crop-wise irrigated area will be noted in the chitha against each dag. the recorder will make field-to-field inspection and collect detailed land uses statistics including area under different crops. Area Abstract and Irrigation Abstract which he will prepare during the winter recess. a spring tour from 15th February. viz. towards the end of the summer recess. He will devote the periods from 1st November to 30th November and from 1st January to 15th January specially to crop inspection work. 25. to 15th June and a winter tour from 1st November. Orders for the annulment of settlement will be noted by the recorder in the remarks column of the chitha. He will devote the period from 15th May. He should be permitted to return to his lot as soon as possible and endeavours should be made to limit the period of his attendance to two months. The crop year for this purpose will be taken to commence on 1st July and end on 30th June. go to the Registrar Kanungo’s office with his chitha and jamabandi in order to make the transfers and corrections referred to in rules 100-103. He should attend Circle Office not later than the 15th January and should not be detained for longer period than at most a month. During the spring tour the recorder will ascertain and note down in the chitha the settlement and assessment particulars and area under different crops grown during the season. 24. to 15th June. the recorder will come to Circle Office. will relate to this crop year. cropwise area irrigated with source and note down the same in the chitha. in addition to supplementary settlement work. Correction of jamabandi register 26. the recorder will come to Circle Office for the summer-recess in order to prepare the papers for regular settlement and Crop Abstract Part I. and prepare the supplementary settlement papers. The crop Abstract Part I which the recorder will prepare during the summer recess. and Crop Abstract Part II. During the Winter tour. Crop Abstract Part II. Record of annulments Crop inspection Tours. He should arrive office for this purpose by the 15th June without fail and submit village-wise Crop Abstract Part I for his lot to the Supervisor Kanungo within 1st July. When the recorder’s recess station is not at the head quarters of the Registrar Kanungo. On completion of Winter tour. He will be very particular in recording information on double and multiple cropped areas and also see that area under winter paddy harvested during the month of October are recorded in the chita . On completion of the spring-tour.The procedure described above will also apply in the case of town lands which become liable to re-assessment under settlement Rule 74 on change of use. The recorder annually will make two tours of field inspection. particularly to crop inspection by field to field visit. Irrigation Abstract and Area Abstract under supervision of the Supervisor Kanungo. he will. to 15th January. No recorder may. get leave of absence even without pay during the following periods. and to facilitate the disposal of work. In all cases not covered by these certificates. March 1st to date of completion of all papers of the regular Provided that in cases of illness of which the duration is short or the character severe the certificate of the Sub-Deputy Collector may be accepted by the Deputy Commissioner. Committee :(2) settlement. a day when there are no barracks and 0. the recorders should be sent to the Registrar Kanungo’s office in batches (rule 100) and not alltogether. and in cases of emergency SubDeputy Collectors may grant casual leave upto 10 days in the year. 28. 27. 19 Diary . (1) November 1st to date of submission of the area crop and irrigation abstracts. except in very special circumstances.On these occasions the recorder should not be detained for a longer period than one week in the Registrar Kanungo’s office. 29. Recorders living within two miles of recess head-quarters are not entitled to halting allowance. The rates of halting allowances for the period of eight weeks in the year for recess at circle head quarters shall be 0.50 P. 1932 (vide Government Order No. 264R. (1) The recorder shall maintain a diary in a paged bound book in which he shall enter each day what work he has done during the day. They are entitled to travelling allowance at rates admissible for Class III Government Officers and single second class fare for their Railway and Steamer journey on duty. Halting allowance at the usual rate for the period of halt in excess of 8 weeks for recess work at circle head-quarters is admissible in individual cases where the halt or detention was in public interest and was necessitated by causes beyond the recorder’s control and is certified as such by the SubDeputy Collector. Their services are. dated the 20th January 1932). The recorders have been declared to be ministerial officers with effect from the 1st January. The rates of mileage and halting allowances (other than for recess) referred to above shall also apply to journeys and halts outside the recorder’s lots. a day when there are barracks. except on production of a medical certificate signed by Medical Officer-in-charge of a dispensary :– Absence from duty Amendment Suggested by the Sub-Committee. superior for all purposes irrespective of their pay.25 P. therefore. when a recorder does no work during the months mentioned he will lose at least double the pay otherwise due to him for the period of idleness. At the beginning of the diary on a blank page should also be gievn (d) An abstract showing the total area of Khiraj. but a recorder should never be called outside his lot or at a time when the Sub-Deputy Collector requires his services. of filing for his lot. 31. he will briefly record the results of his inspection in the recorder’s diary against the date of his visit. another Re. Attendance on Mauzadar 30. 20 . Recorder should know for every village in his lot the rates per bigha at which unsettled lands can be taken up and will inform any person desiring to know. and where he spent the night. especially as to the dag numbers of the fields they may wish to relinquish. attesting the number of days on which he was occupied. Application for demarcation of holdings shall be affixed with Court-fee stamps on the following scale or on such other scale as may be fixed by the Government from time to time. 2. (2) On a blank page in the beginning of the diary should be recorded the date. the Supervisor Kanungo or any other officer inspects the recorder’s work. if available) a weekly abstract diary in From 14.1. He will also give any other information regarding land matters to any person desiring to know. Demarcation of holdings. (4) When the recorder has occasion to visit the circle or Sadar or any Government office. The scale will be double for town lands– (a) For the first 5 bighas or a part of the same Rs. (3) When the Sub-Deputy Collector. (b) The last paper of the supplementary settlement. The recorder must give the raiyats any information touching their own holdings which they may require of him.– (a) The last paper of the regular settlement. Failure to submit the diary will be punishable with fine of 50 (fifty) paise or any other action. Weekly abstract diary (5) Every Sunday the recorder will forward to the Sub-Deputy Collector’s headquarters (using the service stamp. The recorder should attend the Mauzadar when required by him on official duties and in connection with the disposal of chitha mutations. The abstract diaries should be destroyed six months after the period to which they relate. and (c) The crop statement. Nisf-Khiraj and Lakhiraj land in each village of his lot as well as the total area of the grants and special tenures.00 (b) For the next 5 bighas or any broken part. 32. attested by the Supervisor Kanungo. he will invariably obtain in his diary the signature of the officer-in-charge of the office he attended.where he has been working. Information to raiyats. including kanungo’s dhips. concrete.1. Although only these three symbols will be used on the mujmuli maps. and the numbers in the Mujmuli map will correspond with the numbers in the register. The recorder will also annually inspect all the boundary marks of the areas which have been reserved for public purposes within his lot. and will run from north -west to south-east. A register of all permanent survey marks in each village will be maintained in form 7. Marks which have disappeared and have been definitely abandoned should not be shown in the register or in the mujmuli map.(c) For every subsequent 5 bighas or part thereof Re. No mark should be assigned to two or more recorders. a cross will be placed above the afore-mentioned symbols. The mujmuli map should indicate the various marks by the following symbols:– = Stone prism. each recorder will keep a ‘mujmuli’ map of his lot on the scale of 4 inches to the mile. No stamps will be required for pointing out the boundary of any land used for public purposes or land under the Co-operative and Collective farming or any land donated under the Bhoodan Movement. and supply such information regarding them as may be required by the Deputy Commissioner. . noting the visit in his diary and recording in the register the condition of the mark and any repairs which may be needed. An abstract of all the marks will be kept on the fly-leaf of the register of each recorder. When a simul or other tree has been planted in accordance with rule 35. such as grazing grounds. =Square mark of stone masonry or = all other marks. 33. The recorder should visit each mark annually. 21 Survey mark. There will be a separate serial for each lot. When a new mark is erected. He must take early action to cause these repairs or renewals to be effected. whatever be their nature. In addition to the register. showing all the marks which have been assigned to his charge. the entries in the register will describe the marks in the fuller detail in accordance with the descriptions in the actual returns. beginning with number 1. Such marks will be entered in the Register of Survey marks in the spare pages at the end of the book under a separate serial number beginning with number one. This serial will run through all the marks in the same lot. In the distribution of marks the recorder on the north or west of a mark will take precedence of the recorder on the south or east. it will be entered on the map in red ink and will receive a new page in the register and a serial number immediately following the last existing number on the map. and so on. he must personally make over to his successor all the registers and papers and instruments of his lot. The change thus made should at once be indicated. In established villages the recorder is responsible for maintenance of all boundary marks and all simul trees.Manitenance of Survey marks 34. 22 . mounds. The best time for replacing injured or dead simul trees is immediately after the weather breaks in the spring. 36. No replacement. Trijunction points. A list of pending papers of the lot shall also be prepared in duplicate at the time of making over charge and one copy will be sent to the Circle Office. i. In such cases the prism should be conveyed to the nearest the odolites station which is free from danger and set up there. but also on all copies of the map in office. The recorder shall prepare the charge report in triplicate and one copy shall be sent to the Circle Office. which are marked by stone prisms. it permanently on the ground except under the direct supervision and in presence of the Supervisor Kanungo. the Deputy Commissioner’s orders must be taken and following procedure observed. planted 3 feet deep in the ground. 35. two or three chains as may be convenient. different maps. Should a recorder be transferred. unless the circle Sub-Deputy Collector personally inspects such survey marks and recommends to that effect. the mound should be shifted one. No simul tree that has been planted to show the survey mark will be replaced except during the rainy weather. In this connection it should be remembered that the change will often have to be indicated on two and in the case of trijunction points on three. should never be interfered with unless it is necessary to move the prism to prevent it from being was hed away. construction or major repairs shall be made. 6 inches in diameter in the middle. May and June. should the tree die or be destroyed. In certain cases where the survey marks interfere with traffic or are in danger of being washed away it is necessary to remove such survey marks. In the case of an ordinary the odolite station which it is desired to move. In all such cases. not only on the recorder’s map for the current year. Making over charge 37. in a straight line towards one or other of the adjacent stations. Where the odolite stations shown in the maps are marked by a simul tree planted 5 feet magnetic north of the odolite peg.e. he must never mark. or stones which may have been put up at the time of the cadastral survey or since the completion of the cadastral survey. the recorder shall replace it by a cutting not less than 10 feet long. during the months of April. These mounds must be maintained uninjured. Should the recorder be unable to discover or be doubtful about the exact poisition of the odolite station or boundary mark. Around this should be erected a mound well rammed and fenced with bamboo. 7) Register and mujmuli map of survey marks. 9) Diary. and in the case of all fluctuating villages. In villages in which cultivation changes but little. and must be divided 23 New map when required Care of map. 5) Relinquishment Register. whereby to test his chain and offset pole. The recorder must maintain close to his house. 17) A register of the Members of the gramsabhas under the Assam gramdan Act. 1961. 40. 41. 3) Periodic Jamabandi. Ferar and Jotrahin list. 6) Faut. 12) A statement showing the sanctioned bigha rate of each village. 14) A register of encroachment cases. 16) Irrigation Abstract. a measuring standared 66 feet long. on a level piece of ground. 8) Area and crop statement. a new map being brought into use when a new chitha is rewritten. 2) Current chitha.38. Chain testing . 4) Annual Jamabandi. 1) A copy of the re-settlement class map and the class book. Section 3. The follwing registers and statements shall be maintained and prepared by the recorder:– Registers and returns. 15) A register of persons who holds lands above the limit laid down in the law of ceiling (150 bighas). the recorder may carry on a single map for three years. The year or years for which the map is used should be clearly written on the face of the map and duly attested by the Supervisor Kanungo. he will work upon a fresh map each year. The recorder must keep his map clean and protected from damp. 39. 10) Settlement Abstract 11) Note book of map checking. 13) A register of annulled estates. The total distance must be marked off on the ground by large permanently fixed pegs of wood (not bamboo).– Maintenance of the Field map. In villages in which changes are numerous. . if any.into ten equal divisions of ten links each by smaller pegs. or is spreading will also be supplied with a Gunter’s chain. (2) survey all new cultivation and extensions of cultivation. The recorders of tracts in which cultivation fluctuates. but if it is printed or in ink. and (4) inspect all the areas reserved within his lot for public purposes (e. a cardboard scale and a 20 link pole and an offset slip. All recorders must often test their chains and rectify any errors that may be found. 43.) and report encroachments. alter the boundaries of a periodic field. Alteration of periodic fields. he shall himself revise the recorded areas 24 . The SubDeputy Collector shall give such sanction only in the case of an admitted error in mapping the boundary of contiguous fields. road-side lands. carefully exploring the unsettled lands and sarkari dags of his villages to ensure that no new cultivation or extension of cultivation escapes notice. a plane-table. 42. he will leave it unchanged and deal with the field under rule 62. After verifying a relinquishment. Extensions of cultivation in lakhiraj estates and fee-simple grants held for ordinary cultivation are to be surveyed and numbered in separate dags according to blocks of cultivation for the assessment of local rates. The encroached areas in respect of Sarkari lands or lands reserved for public purposes within his lot will be plotted on the map in pencil and taken over to the encroachment register and TauziBahir Jamabandi to be maintained under rule 19. The recorder will verify on the ground all fields shown in the map in pencil. Owing to the increase of population and the consequent demand for land.g. a cross-staff or optical square. he will cross out the boundary if it is in pencil. When the Sub-Deputy Collector gives such sanction. without the previous sanction of the Sub-Deputy Collector. During his field tours the recorder will (1) survey and bring on to the map all areas that have been settled upon application. grazing or camping grounds etc. correcting the boundaries where necessary. a pair of compassess. (3) go round the periodically settled fields of his villages and make any corrections on the map which are needed in order to give effect to orders passed by the SubDeputy Collector or other officer duly empowered in mutation proceedings. (i) The recorder shall not. 45. Every recorder must know how to correct the length of his chain viz. Field work 44. Instrument. All recorders should be provided with a talc or cellulose square showing Katha squares on a scale of 16 inches to a mile. The pencil boundaries crossed out as above will be rubbed out in the winter recess. a lead pencil and a piece of rubber and other materials that are required for survey work. Verification of relinquishment. by opening or closing the joints of the rings. The same procedure will also apply to fields excluded from settlement by order. the practice of resignation even of annual lands has been much reduced and over large area is now practically unknown. (2) When a new field is inserted in a map already prepared. The following procedure will be observed in numbering new fields :– (1) The natural numbering of fields is from the north-west to the south-east corner of the village. (3) If a village is large and there is much sarkari and fluctuating land in it the village should be divided into convenient blocks and certain number should be set apart for each block.and the recorded revenue of the fields concerned. it will. the new field will receive a fractional number which will indicate where it lies. 47. For the purpose of numbering the fields each block will then be treated as a separate village and the system explained in clause (2) will be followed block by block. then in the chitha and jamabandi. if the last number in the chitha be 250 and a new field be surveyed in the neighbourhood of field No. The numbers should be so assigned to each block that there is no likelihood of the numbers running short. (iii) When a portion of a dag has been transferred and when the parties so desire it. Thus if it appears that a block will require 50 numbers. (ii) Bad mistakes in survey should be reported to the Sub-Deputy Collector for orders. but he shall not assign to it a separate dag number nor ink it and shall not make a separate entry in the chitha. and so on. the recorder shall survey the transferred portion and shall show its boundaries in pencil in his map. without the previous sanction of the Sub-Deputy Collector. Thus. and third block 101-160 and fourth block 161-200. Admission of such an error by the parties shall be noted in the remarks column of the chitha with thumb impression or signature of the parties concerned duly attested by the Sub-Deputy Collector. Thus. The original maps were prepared on this system. The blocks should be bounded where possible by natural features. Separate pages of the chitha will be kept for each block. Land which the recorder finds during his winter tour to have been taken up for cropping with high land rice during the summer following will not be surveyed or assessed by him till he commences his tour for the regular settlement. 75 may be allotted. The system of block ‘numbering’ will be adopted in all 25 Numbering new fields . first block 1-75. second block 76-100. the new field will receive a number immediately consecutive to the last number in the chitha. When a field falls in two blocks. Safe guard against assessing high land rice fields twice. the new field will appear in the map as 251 and in the record as 79/251. If the natural sequence of number is thereby broken on the map. otherwise by straight lines drawn between theodolite stations or kanungo’s dhips. be numbered according to the block in which the larger portion falls. 46. though not in the map. 79. If the changes since the map was printed would necessitate much plotting over printed lines in a part of the map. which the recorder need not attempt to locate precisely on the map.large newly surveyed villages which have much sarkari and fluctuating land and also in all villages of this nature for which a new edition of the map is brought out. Method of survey 48. On it should be shown in ink the boundaries of the village and any permanent survey marks and roads. When annual dags are traced on a new map. 49. it will suffice to make a trace of that part only which should be neatly pasted over that portion of the map of which it is a trace. 50. Preparation map for new field work. Triangulation may be freely used for plotting of blocks of fluctuating cultivation. the recorder will bring it up-to-date before leaving office for his spring tour by transferring to it all changes which are shown upon the map used by him during the tours last preceding. etc. the following instruction must be observed :– (1) All measurements must be made by means the chain except in the case of short offsets not exceeding a chain in length. 51. or of cultivation isolated in jungle. In surveying. the traces must be immediately checked by lines in the field. the changes affect the whole map an up-to-date trace must be made for vandy-king a new set of maps as detailed in the following rule. traingulation may be resorted to. and the boundaries of the periodic fields not resigned or abandoned. The recorder will show the new roads. But when the marks are far apart. or high grass or jungle intervenes. care being taken that the measurement is started from the boundary of a field about the correct position of which there is no doubt. which may be measured with the 20 link tar. (3) New fields on the edge of permanent fields may be measured by ‘tar’. The boundaries of periodically settled and anually settled fields (including the crossing out of obsolete boundaries) will be inked up in office: Provided that in the immature and fluctuating villages where temporary cultivation is practised and when the boundaries of holdings are subject to changes due to either floods or non-maintenance of permanent boundaries the annual dags may be kept in pencil. ponds and other changes in the physical features on the map. 26 . (2) Chain lines should ordinarily run from one survey mark to another. 52. When a fresh map is taken. It however. The boundaries of new fields and changed boundaries of old fields are to be plotted in pencil continuous lines. c) Where changes have occurred. looks like O in the printed maps.53. 27 Vandy-king . and erasures should. but should be clear. change in the existing boundaries. Shillong. as creases or creaks will be re-produced as black lines in the print. have been renumbered in ink.g. The class division of dags. the changes e. when examined by holding the map upto the light. new cultivation orchanges in the course of any stream or road should be accurately surveyed. and the dags. when made shall. when they will be inked up. When a new map is to be printed under the above rule or when the stock of any map has been exhausted.– 1. The seond copy should be kept flat in office and should not be rolled up. 3. but two blue prints of he original map should be called for from the Drawing office. so that all lines and letters made with it will. firm and not ragged. when dry. b) Where no changes have occurred. The figures should not be made too small. the link symbol “S” for connecting two plots should be drawn in pencil across the blue line that is not to be inked up. e. (a)When the revised blue print has been completed in every respect. The following instructions should be observed in using them. be perfectly black and opaque. vernacular 3. as far as possible. inked up. c) The lines and figures should not be drawn too fine. d) Nothing should be pasted to either the front or back of the map.g. (a)One copy should be taken out in the field and each dag on the map should be compared with corresponding features on the ground. subdivision of dags. b) The ink used should be freshly ground up Indian ink of sufficient consistency. the blue lines on the map on the boundaries of such dags should be left as they are until the map is brought to office. it is no longer necessary or desirable to have a trace made. where necessary. the blue lines showing the original boundary (which has changed) should be crossed out in pencil. plotted in pencil and when taken to office. be avoided. 2. should be shown in dotted lines in ink in both copies of the blue print. In case of amalgamation of two dags and to prevent any doubt on the matter when the plots are being re-numbered. whether made at the re-settlement or after wards. the second copy should be very neatly and carefully inked up in accordance with the field copy of the revised blue print. The Drawing office can supply blue prints only when the original maps are stored there. There should an endorsement on the fair copy of the blue print map to the following effect under the signature of the Deputy Commissioner “ This map was made under the authority of Government in (year) and has been corrected upto (year)”. the number of the fields from which and to which the check line was run.4. he will retain the map in previous use till the end of the following winter tour. can nearly be always re-produced in blue. recording the name of the village. 6. The recoredr will maintain a note-book for all check lines run across his map by any inspecting officers. 5. about 1907 are usually not fit for immediate re-production. If there are no changes in the existing black print. of Record of map testing by superior officers. 55. a clear copy of the existing black print. if sent to the Drawing office. Filing maps. it is unnecessary to ask for a blue print for correction and in such cases black prints should be indented. Maps made before the Vandyke process was invented i. When the recorder takes out a new map. should be sent to the Drawing office from the district stock. the margins of the maps (and sheets) should be carefully compared and a sheet certificate to the effect that “the margins of the viallge map have been sheet” compared with those of the adjoining village maps should be signed by the Supervisor Kanungo and the Sub-Deputy Collector concerned on the copy of the map sent to the Drawing Office for re-production. 28 . But black prints in stock in the district. But this line need not be transferred to a new map. and will then file it with Registrar Kanungo who will deposit it in the record room for reference at the next re-settlement. Entries in this note-book will be made by inspecting officers only. and results of the check.e. Consequently when blue prints are required. The check line should also be plotted on the map by the inspecting officer by a dot and-dash line. The fair copy of the map as thus revised will be sent in original carefully rolled round a ruler to the Drawing office for re-production. In the case of all villages to be surveyed or resurveyed. after noting clearly upon it the year or years to which it relates (see rule 191). 56. with absolutely nothing written on it. date. 54. whether annual or periodic. inheritance. iii) Columns 5 and 6 relating to land revenue and local rate will be filled up from the Jamabandi Register. which should be described according as they are held on khiraj (periodic or annual) or Nisf-khiraj or Lakhiraj lease. etc. in additon to any class to which it may have been classified. If there has been a change in the settlement holder. and a word be entered to indicate the cause of change (e.). (c) Reserve.g. as shown in column 7. If an entry has been made in column 8 of the previous chitha. In tracts that have not been resettled. For unsettled plots. the name of the person in actual possession must be shown in column 8 with a number corresponding to that in column 7 when there are more pattadars than one. b) Under water. should be entered to indicate its actual state :– a) Road. The patta number should also be noted on column 4 along with the type of patta. Column 2 and 3 are to be filled up for all the fields which are borne on the Chitha. settled or Sarkari. each page being used for recording crop information for two or more dags for three successive years. (i) Columns 1 to 7 and column 31 in part will be filled up from the previous chitha before the recoreder visits the fields during the spring tour. During the three years for which the chitha will be in use. d) Waste. the entries will be annually corrected and the recorder will see that the corrected entries are a complete and accurate record of the facts of each year. but mutation not yet sanc29 . If the land is held on patta for tea cultivation. and the total area in column 3. one or other of the following words. the class of land as recorded for each field in the original class book will be entered in the Chitha and copied out each time the Chitha is written. The columns of the Chitha shall be field up in accordance with the procedure described below :– Land classification and Record of Rights. embankment. gift.SECTION 4 – THE CHITHA 57. rupit. In districts where these entries were not made at the time of resettlement. ii) Column 4 will be filled up in respect of settled dag only. exhange etc. purchasee.. the class to be shown and column 2 will be basti. The field or dag number will be entered in column 1. Chitha should be a bound. continuous register. the classification of land in column 2. Preparation of chitha 58. the word “tea” should be noted. iv) At the time of copying out column 7 the name of each joint pattadar should be entered in a separate line and serially numbered. The pages of the Chitha should be numbered and certified by the Sub-Deputy Collector. faringati or tea. by transfer. (v) Columns 9-11 will be filled up when special orders are issued by the Government for the preparartion of record of rights of tenants. 18 and 19. Te n a n t ’ s records. (ii) Barren and unculturable land.tioned. (iv) Permanent pastures and other grazing land. But in the case of annual pattas. (iii) Land put to non-agricultural uses. exchange. and such names noted in column 8 will be transferred to column 7 as soon as the mutation is sanctioned by the Sub-Deputy Collector. The name given in column 8 will be transferred to column 7. second and third year respectively.g. sale.. In case of occupation of annual patta lands by other means or manner. but 30 . Changes will be shown by correcting the previous entries. The class of land-use to be recorded here will be one or more of the following classes:– (i) Forests. and (viii) Other fallows. adhiars and sub-tenants. the entry should be copied in column 8 in the new chitha. etc. and shall submit a report to that effect with a copy of the chitha to the Sub-Deputy Collector who will take necessary action in accordance with the latest Government orders and instructions in the matter. and 24. The nature of current utilisation of uncropped land both settled and Sarkari and its area will be recorded in columns 12 and 13. (vii) Current fallow. e.. that portion should be included under the appropriate heading of cultivated or uncultivated land and excluded from area under forest. gift. the recorder shall note down the nature of possession (dakhal) with names. and 25 for the first. If any portion of an unclassed State forest or a private forest is not actually wooded but put to some other uses. as soon as the mutation is sanctioned by the Sub-Deputy Collector. All actually forested areas on the land classed or administered as forest under any legal enactment dealing with forest whether State owned or private will be noted as forest. (v) Misce laneous tree crops and groves not included in the net area sown. (vi) Culturable waste. Record of land-use 59. the names of actual occupants (dakhalkars) by right of inheritance or share only should be entered in column 8 by the recorder. The entry in column 8 will be signed and dated by the recorder. father’s names and address of the occupants invariably in column 31 and not in column 8. lease or mortgage. will be recorded as land put to non-agricultural uses. Tank Description 1. swamps (dalani). the total area of which should be recorded as forest. river. Canal.. bamboo clump (whether-in the home stead or outside).. b) with ayacut of 100 acres and more. i. pond and Fishery pond. Government canal and 2. land reserved for other public purposes etc. All lands under scrub jungle. . rock. All fields lying fallow during the current agricultural year will be noted as current fallow. land under embankment. The area of clumps of bamboos outside the homestead should also be noted as area under miscellaneous tree crops etc. etc. thatch (kher). Government tank: (a) with ayacut of less than 100 acres. All lands reserved as Public Grazing Reserve and Village Grazing Reserve and other grazing lands will be included under permanent pastures and other grazing land. 60.g. 20 and 26 will be recorded the source of irrigation from which an area. 2. trade site (beparor thai with its sub-classes) road (bat). In columns 14. if any.. burial and cremation grounds. All lands that are cultivable but have not been cultivated so far or once cultivated but lying fallow for more than five years will be recorded as culturable waste. railway. hillocks. Private tank : 31 Record of irrigated area. Fields lying fallow for more than a year and upto five years are to be noted as other fallow.e. bunds. schools. All lands under house-site (basti or basic with its sub-classes).this will not apply to Reserved forest. Private canal 1. under a crop has been irrigated. will be noted as area under miscellaneous tree crops and groves not shown in area sown. play ground land under water (panital) e. All lands that are barren and absolutely unfit for cultivation. lands under barren hills. silted lands and sandy lands will be noted as barren and uncluturable lands. temples. mosques. The sources should be mentioned according to the folowing standard classification:– Source of Irrigation 1.. 2. The area covered by clumps of bamboos in the homestead should be excluded from the total area of homestead land and recorded as area under miscellaneous tree crops and groves not shown in area sown. the different crops occupying different parts of it. its name and area should be recorded in columns 15 and 16. then the crop paddy will be entered in columns 15. Tubewells 1. 21 or 27 as the case may be. and 6 bighas will be encircled to indicate that it is irrigated. 3. 32 . and against it. 22 or 28 as the case may be. Private : a) Masonary b) Non-masonary. ‘Dong’ Stream etc. Run by electric pump 2.a) with ayacut of less than 100 acres. The irrigated area of a crop will be noted separately from its unirrigated area and the former will be encircled to distinguish it from the latter. (ii) If a crop is grown on unsettled land. for example. If. (i) The name of the crop sown and its area will be recorded in columns 15 and 16. The fact that it is unauthorised cultivation should be noted in column 31. second and third year respectively. Other Sources 2. a) Masonary b) Non-masonary 5. Crop areas need not be measured and should never be plotted on the map. b) with ayacut of 100 acres and more. their areas being deducted from the total area of the homestead land and the balance being recorded as house-site of basti or bari. second and third year respectively. 27 and 28 for the first. (iv) If crops for which special columns are provided in the Crop Abstract are grown on homestead land. Government. 21 and 22 and 27 and 28 for the first. Well 1. they should be separately recorded. (iii) When more than one crop is grown in a field. The area of clump of bamboos outside the homestead dhould also be noted in the same column. dag number 55 has 10 bighas under paddy of which 6 bighas are irrigated. the area covered by each crop should be ascertained by eye-estimation and entered. Crop recording 61. both 6 bighas and 4 bighas will be noted one below the other in columns 16. Run by oil engine 4. The area covered by clumps of bamboo in the homestead also should be excluded from the total area of homestead and recorded separately in the column meant for uncropped area. 21 and 22. both crops will be shown against the field. (ix) In column 30 will be recorded the name and number of scattered trees in areas other than the compact orchards. In recording the area of compact orchards in crop columns of the chitha. e. will be shown against the field. 21. crop. second and third year respectively. when one cold-weather-crop is sown and fails and a second cold-weather-crop then sown. but only under the latter. (vi) If an area is sown after green manuring. 33 . Similarly. whether the second crop comes to maturity or not. covering more than one crop-year. (x) Where one crop only is sown on a field. 22 and 28 for the first. the recorder will take care to see that in the case of mixed orchards the names of all the component fruits and the gross area of the mixed orchards are entered. (vii) When the same field or the same part of a field has borne more than one crop within the year. the second crop sown. whether either of them comes to maturity or not. The area sown during the current year should be recorded as “area sown or prepared for sowing during the current year but to be harvested next year”. first a rainy season crop and the second a cold-weather. He will then allocate the gross area to the component fruits by eye estimation. (viii) The area which has borne more than one crop within the year will be repeated in columns 17. second and third year respectively.. When two crops are sown on a field. it will be entered against that field. it is necessary to show the area sown during the year. (xi) Where one rainy-season crop is sown and fails and another rainy-season crop is then sown. sugarcane. both will be entered in columns 15. The recorder must ascertain by careful enquiry and by inspecting the land whether there has been a preceding crop or not. The area harveted during the current year should be recorded as “areas harvested during the year but sown in the previous year”. the first cold-weather-crop will not be shown but the second cold-weather-crop will be shown whether it comes to maturity or not. and 27 and the areas of the both in columns 16. the area should not be counted both under green manure crop and the crop sown after green manuring.(v) While recording the area of long-duration crops. and not the first. because it is the area harvested which alone has to be used for estimating the production.g. whether it comes to maturity or not. Double cropping is generally effected by broadcasting rice before the crop which the recorder finds on the ground. 23 and 29 for the first. In case of compact orchards their areas will be recorded in crop columns. distinctly from the area harvested during the year. Should the boundaries and numbering of the relinquished field have been erased or cancelled (rule 43). The apportionment will be done at the district level in acordance with the ratios fixed on the data collected in course of crop cutting experiments. Treatment of Relinquished dags. the chitha entry will be scored out. in case paddy and arahar sown together in a field. the area should be counted in each of the seasons in which the sowings of the respective crops have been done. (xiv) Area sown with a vegetable or any other crop should be recorded only once during the season in which it is sown. A major crop-mixture will be treated as a separate crop and only the gross area will be recorded in the chitha and Crop-Abstract. when early rice and late rice are sown together). (xvii) If the area under a crop is one-tenth of a bigha or less. (xvi) If a crop or crop mixture is sown in an area when a crop or crop mixture sown in it in the preceding season is about to be harvested.Cr op. but fields of different classification should not be amalgamated with one another.m ixture (xii) No separate column for recording area under mixed crops has been provided in the chitha. the gross area of the mixture should be allocated to various components by eye-estimation at the field-level itself and the net allocared area of each component crop should be recorded in the chitha against the name of each component crop entered in the previous column. the area of the field being added to that of the adjacent sarkari dag. The estimate of yield-rate per unit area should take into account all the harvests obtained during the year. and included in the area under the chief crop or any other major classification which its use justifies. once in each season. When the same variety of vegetable is sown in two or more seasons. irrespective of whether the components are harvested in the same season or in different season. irrespective of whether it gives one or more harvest in the same season or different seasons of the same crop-year. For exmaple. the recorder shall substitute the word ‘sarkari’ in column 7 in place of the name of the pattadar. the area should be recorded separately. but harvested in different crop-seasons (for instance. (xiii) Even when two varieties of the same crop are sown on a field at the same time. In case of minor crop-mixtures. (xv) Area sown mixed with a number of crops either simultaneously or after some interval in the same season should be recorded only once in the sowing season either as gross area under the mixture or as allocated net areas under its different components. this mixture will be noted as paddy-arahar and its gross area only will be entered in the chitha. When entire dags are excluded from settlement as relinguished. this also will be treated as mixed crop. 62. If in any case fields are amalgamated and 34 . it should be ignored under that crop. g. land acquired or annulled). the latter being distiguished from the former by a reference to column 7 meant for recording the name of pattadar.g. the area cropped should be shown under the crop concerned. under land put to non-agricultural use if used as passage only. Exclusion of faut. The irrigation abstract will be prepared by recorder and submitted in time. In case the Sarkari land is kept reserved for public purposes. the name of the holder being scored out and the word ‘sarkari’ being substituted. If the field is again taken up wholly or in part. 20 and 26 for the first year. under grass land if used to grow grass for cattle. (1) The area under permanent bunds should be shown separately in the chitha. under rupit if sown with crops. (c) Marwaris. e. the entry in this column should be ‘Reserved Sarkari’ and the purpose for which it is reserved should also be noted in column 31.. (b) Nepalis. . (d) Tea-garden employees other than labourer. 67. it will be dealt with in the same manner as any other sarkari dag. 66. In no case such bunds should be shown in any other classification. 22 and 28 for the first second and third year respectively. If crops are grown in the bunds. 65. the fact should be noted in the remarks column of the Class Book. In column 31 the settlement holder who are not Indigenous should be designated as. A similar procedure will be followed in the case of dags that have been brought by the recorder on to his faut. ferar and jotrahin list and land excluded from settlement by order (e. 63. The net area irrigated should be shown within a circle in columns 16. (a) Ex-labourer of tea garden. 35 Recording of land under bonds. second and third year respectively.consequent alteration in the dag numbers is involved. the word ‘Sarkari’ will be written in column 7 to indicate that the land in question has not yet been settled. and the source of irrigation noted in columns 19. The revised chitha form has been so devised as to enable recording of the details of both settled and un-settled lands in the same set of columns. ferar a n d jotrahin fields. under miscellaneous tree-crop if used to grow trees. 64. The area of a field bund or strip which is given a separate dag number will be recorded under the land-use to which it is put. If the land is not settled with any pattadar. (2) The area under flood control or soil conservation embankment and all irrigation-bunds along with the irrigation-work should be shown as land put to non-agricultural use. 68. (6) A list of sarkari dags of the village with areas. Separate Jamabandis are prepared for (a) periodic pattas. name and address of encroachers. 71. (3) List of dags excluded owing to relinquishment. (5) List of reserved dags encroached upon with space for area of encroachment. ferar and Jotrahin and of dags excluded under special orders. of dags faut. for camping ground. that is to say. The original area of such dags recorded in last resettlement should be noted against each dag. The Jamabandi Register. date of report.g. Land Revenue and local rate payable by pattadars are incorporated in the 36 .. When copying the chitha. of ‘land holding’ tenures . immigrants of the cultivating classes from East Pakistan acquiring Indian Citizenship and other States of India. for grazing. (2) List of dags newly settled at Dariabadi or regular settlement and resettled relinquished dags. Old field chithas 69. religious institutions. It will then be destroyed with order from the Deputy Commissioner. (b) annual pattas recorded at regular settlement. railway labourer. roads.(e) Others. This is the jamabandi prepared at the last preceding re-settlement of the distrcit. Section 5 the Jamabandi 70. is the jamabandi register. such as. the old copy will be deposited in the circle office and remain there until the field chitha has again been re-written. (4) List of dags reserved from settlement with notes of areas and purpose of reservation. In addition. for public institutions. A list of fields so reserved should be maintained on a page in the beginning of the Chitha. When a field chitha has been re-written. The principal record of periodic and sepcial pattas.). the facts should be noted in column 31 and repeated in the fair copy of the Chitha. there are separate jamabandis for special tenures such as nisf-khiraj. note of subsequent orders received and result of action taken. (c) annual pattas recorded at supplementary settlement. unsettled tanks etc. If a field has been reserved by special order or by acquisition for a public purpose (e. the recorder will reserve at least 10 pages at the beginning for the following purposes – (1) Remarks made and orders passed by Sub-Deputy Collector or Supervisor Kanungo when inspecting the village. and the same procedure will be followed in case of periodic jamabandi as well while making entries in the case of new holdings that have changed by gaining or losing fields and the revenue of which is to be recalculated. ferar or jotrahin or under special orders. Recorder’s copies of jamabandis. Any alteration made in the jamabandi register must be made in this copy also. It will be made available to mauzadar or tahsildar when required for the preparation of the annual collection register (wasil. The annual jamabandis of the previous three years will be deposited in the circle office for three years. 73. or added as newly settled on the basis of the recorder’s chitha. The Local periodic Jamabandi A list of all dags which have been effected by orders of field partition together with the dates of the orders concerned must be kept permanently on a page of the local periodic jamadandi and must always be referred to when a new map is brought into use by the recorder under Rule 39 and particularly when the map is collected for re-printing under rule 53. columns 6 and 7 will be field up from the relevant columns of the chitha in accordance with the nature of landsuse. The jamabandis will be duly verified and checked by the Supervisor Kanungo. . 74. In the annual jamabandi. and kept up-to-date by making necessary corrections. A duplicate copy of the jamabandi register (called the local periodic jamabandi) is kept by the recorder for reference. will remain with the recorder during the current settlement. The originals will be kept by the recorder but will be made available to Mauzadars or Tahsildars for preparation of the annual collection register (wasil. They need not be copied. tahsil or tauzi). Fresh jamabandis will annually be prepared by the recorder for annual pattas as recorded at regular settlement and at supplementary settlement. 37 Entry of land classing in the jamabandi. 72.jamabandi register which is a permanent record and continues upto the terminal year during the curency of resettlement. It is maintained by the Registrar Kanungo. No mutation of names can be effected without the order of the Sub-Deputy Collector or an officer duly empowered. 75. periodic or annual. Fields will be struck off as relinquished or excluded for faut. tahsil or tauzi). after which these will be destroyed with orders from the Deputy Commissioner. The recorder’s main work during the spring tour will be as follows : (a) Distribution of pattas (b) Survey of new lands. He will also enter separately un-occupied fields the settlement holder of which is bankrupt (jotrahin) and has abandoned the whole of his cultivation and any 38 . (7) all pending petitions for pointing out boundaries and (8) all pending apllications for waste land. (5) sanctioned applications for waste land. (f) Collection of crop statistics. 79. Distributation of pattas 78. When the recorder leaves office for spring tour with effect from 15th February. 81. A list of verified relinquished dags will be kept on a blank page of the chitha Preparation of fault. 80. The recorder will prepare in From 6 a list of unoccupied fields. he will take with him. (k) Enquiry of persons having land in excess of ceiling. (4) the relinquishment register.G. (i) Disposal of pending petitions for pointing out boundaries. ferar and Jotrahin lists. Operation of Spring tour 77. (1) The village map. the settlement-holder of which has died leaving no heir (faut) or who has left the place leaving no trace of his whereabouts (ferar). (h) Inspection of Sarkari dags and V. Mapping of new cultivation. ferar and jotrahin lists. (6) the supplementary settlement pattas for distribution. (3) the re-settlement class map and the class book. Relinquishment petitions when received from the Circle Officer will be verified on the ground and necessary entries made in the field chitha. (c) Verification of relinquishments. Rs. Verification of relinquishments. (e) Preparation of chitha. (j) Enquiry into application for waste land. New cultivation and extensions of cultivation will be entered as they are mapped areas being calculated on the spot. (g) Inspection of survey marks. (2) the chitha. (d) Preparation of faut. The recorder should complete distribution of all supplimantary pattas by the 1st of March.SECTION 6 SPRING TOUR 76. the number of that dag should be quoted in the margin and copied in the chitha each time it is re-written. but the settlement of which has not been sanctioned. father’s name and address of the occupants invariably in column 31 and not in column 8 and shall submit a report to that effect with a copy of the chitha to the SubDeputy Collector who will take necessary action in accordance with the latest Government orders and instructions in the matter. [Vide also Rule 58(i)]. Land which has been applied for. During their tours. Entry of name of Dakhalkar 83. inheritance.g. lease or mortgage. the recorder shall note down the nature of possession with names.fields which he has been ordered to exclude as jotrahin by the Deputy Commissioner. 82.). purchase. Necessary particulars of the fields newly surveyed must be entered in the field chitha at the time of survey. A list of faut. for which no separate columns are provided in Crop Abstract Part I should be added to Miscellaneous food crops or miscellaneous non-food crops as the case may be in Crop Abstract Part II. exchange. by transfer. the recorder will visit as many of the fields of his lot as possible and in the case of fields held on periodic pattas in which changes of possession (other than sub-tenancies) have occurred but not yet registered shall enter in column 8 of the chitha the name of the unregistered dakhalkar (occupant). ferar and jotrahin fields will be kept on a blank page of the chitha. mortgage. gift. The area under minor crops.. the names of actual occupants by right of inheritance or share only should be entered in column 8 by the recorder and in case of occupation by other means. should not be shown on the map. If the new field forms a portion of a sarkari dag. 39 . cropwise irrigated area with source will be recorded in the relevant columns of the chitha as for procedure laid down in the previous section. gift exchange. etc. indicating in one word the manner in which possession has originated (i. Partculars of new fields 84. the recorders shall record area under the crops grown during the season including the ones not mentioned in the Crop Abstract Part I. During his tour.. But in the case of annual pattas. e.e.. These entries should be in ink and signed and dated by the recorder. etc. A list of new fields surveyed must be kept in a blank page of the chitha. sale. In case of irrigated land. Fields newly settled will be entered in the local periodic jamabandi and the fields excluded will be struck out.SECTION 7– SUMMER RECESS Automatic fine 85. etc. 88. (g) Correction of the jamabandi register. 87. Work in recess. Necessary corrections must be made in the page and village totals. A register of attendance of the recorders will be maintained in the circle office. For all new fields surveyed during the spring tour. At this stage. Recorders who fail to appear in office on the 15th J une will be fined 0. relinquishments. (f) Preparation of the village and circle plus and minus settlement abstract. he will make a corresponding alteration in the area of the Sarkari dag. (j) Preparation of crop abstract Part I. The page totals of the jamabandi need not be altered every year on account of inclusion and exclusiou of fields. It will be sufficient if a note of the changes giving the details required for the plus and minus settlement abstract is recorded at the bottom left hand corner of the page. (h) Completion of map. 89. the jamabandi register must be corrected in the same manner so as to bring the two records in to agreement in all respects. After the ompletin of the lot plus and minus settlement abstract and when effecting changes consequent on mutation. (b) Correction of local periodic jamabandi. consequent on mutation. (c) Preparation of the annual jamabandi. (e) Totalling the chitha. Where the new field formed part of a sarkari dag. etc. Corrections necessitated by mutation need not be undertaken until the lot plus and minus settlement abstract has been completed. relinquishment. 40 . the recorder will recalculate the area by the tale square and check the relevant columns of the chitha.25 P for each day of absence unless exempted by the SubDeputy Collector. Verification and classification of areas. corrections in the local periodic jamabandi will be limited to adding new fields and deducting those excluded. (d) Totalling the annual and local periodic jamabandis. (i) Verification of the classification of new fields. : 86 The duties of the recorder during the summer recess will be as follows :– (a) Verification of areas. The annual jamabandi 91. He should make this on a spare page at the end of the register. ferar or jotrahin shall not be struck out until the receipt of the Commissioner’s order. the recorder will make an abstract of the local periodic jamabandi for each village. 93. The total of the khiraj area abstracted from the field chitha must agree with the total khiraj area in the periodic and annual jamabandi. In the districts or areas where either the unit rate or the factor has been fixed in terms of decimal coinage. (a) After totalling the periodic and the annual jamabandis. the recorder will total his field chitha by tenures. Totalling and comparison of chitha and jamabandi (b) The recorder will also make page totals of areas under individual crops and note it at the bottom of each page. obtaining the necessary particular. from his chitha. Preparation of village abtracts and totals 95. The recorder will then prepare his annual jamabandi for each village. The same method of calculating bigha rates is to be used in villages assessed on the unit rate system for the first time in extension survey. Fraction of a paise equal to or greater than half the paise should be treated as one paisa and fraction of a paisa less then its half should be disregarded . He will prepare the village-wsie consolidated Crop Abstract for his lot and submit the same to the Supervisor Kanungo within 1st July along with the Crop Abstracts Sheets for each village where page totals are noted. 90. 92. The recorder will calculate the revenue to be assessed on new fields by multiplying the area of the filed by the sanctioned bigha rate of its class. In unsurveyed areas which have not been resettled the revenue to be assessed on new field will be calculated according to orders issued by the Government. the result is the rate in annas. the unit rate multiplied by the factor of the class of land will give the rate in Paise which may be rounded off to the nearest paise. He will make a similar abstract of the annual Jamabandi. No copy need be made. 41 . The sanctioned bigha rates are those notified in the Assam Gazette with the orders sanctioning the assessment. After correcting the local periodic jamabandi.The periodic pattas provisionally excluded for faut. Fractions of an anna equal to or greater than 6 pies should be treated as one anna. He will then copy down the page totals of area under different crops in the Crop Abstract form for obtaining the totals for the village as a whole. They are calculated by multiplying the factor of the class of the land fixed in terms of annas by the unit rate of the village. Fractions of an anna less than 6 pies should be ignored. showing class-wsie the additions and deductions of both area and revenue. Rates in unsurveyed areas which have not been reset tled 94. (b) the classes of immigrants entered on that page. Changes ordered by the Court. Correction of jamabandi register. After filing his plus and minus settlement abstract. At the same time that the recorder makes these corrections in the jamandandi register. 101. A plus and minus settlement abstract in form 11 will then be prepared for each village. Discripancies from patta calculation 99. 98. To facilitate the preparartion of the general settlement statement (daul) for the mauza. (d) the number of each page containing entries of scheduled tribe and scheduled caste settlement holders with total area settled with them. From the several village abstracts the recorder will compile a consolidated abstract (in the same form) for his lot. With a view to minimising the detention of the recorders at the Registrar Kanungo’s Office. 97. If after the Jamabandi is corrected for mutations and partitions there is a difference in the revenue owing to patta calculation. the lot and the mauza or pargana should be made out. (c) the total area shown on the page as settled with each class. Thus the total of the village. 96. the difference should be reported to the Deputy Commissioner or the SubDivivisional Officer. Register of mautations 102. the changes already made by the Registrar Kanungo in the jamabandi register shall be brought on to the recorder’s field chitha and the local jamabandi. The recorder should make an abstract showing. the recorder will proceed to correct the local periodic Jamabandi and the Jamabandi register so to carry out changes which have been sanctioned and which appear over the initials of Sub-DeputyCollector and other officers duly empowered in the field chitha. The volume will remain in the recorder’s possession. The latter will send all the returns to the Registrar Kanungo (rule 185). the recorder will prepare a similar abstract for each village and for the lot for all tenures other than khiraj. of the Registerar Kanuango should. 100. The pages of the jamabandi should be numbered and duly certified by the Sub-Deputy Collector. Each rcorder will be provided with a bound volume of printed forms of abstract used for each settlement. He will then sign the form and make it over to the Supervisor Kanungo who will submit it with a consolidated statement for his sub-circle to the Sub-Deputy Collector . The recorder will then fill up for his own lot a blank form of the annual statement of mutations (From 15).The preparation of the village and lot plus and m i n u s settlement. In all cases the recorder will initial date and the correction and quote the date of the order. 42 .(a) the number of each page containing entries of emigrants. regular and supplementary. in consultation with the Sub-Deputy Collector and subject to the approval of the Deputy Commissioner or Sub-Divisional Officer. draw up a regular programme for corrections to be done by recorders in batches (see rule 26). as far as possible. When the recorder spends his recess else-where than at the headquarters of the district or subdivision. mapped and classed. such as. rules. The recorder may on no account leave his recess headquaters either for the purpose of the foregoing rule or for any other cause until he has completed his plus and minus settelement abstracts. The land must be in a village which has been traversed. 2) The conditions to be fulfiled are as follows :– (a) The land should be demarcated and actually surveyed and its survey and area calculation should be tested by the Supervisor Kanungo. Visit to headquarters 104. All applications for conversion should be enquired into and disposed of. Provided further that no new periodic pattas will be proposed or ordered to be issued. . he will for the purpose of complying with the above. Provided that periodic pattas will not be issued in contravention of the provisions of section 23 of the Settlement Rules framed under the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation and no new periodic patta shall be issued in respect of land within one chain (66 feet) of the 35 feet reservation along roads maintained by the State or the Union Government without special orders from the Government. if there exists any dispute over possession or over prima-facie title of the land in question. transplanted rice or permanent broadcast winter rice or permanent rice seedlings or permanent cold weather crops or occupied for permanent residential purposes. The recorder may propose the issue of periodic pattas for lands which saisfy the conditions mentioned below. 43 Issue of new annual and periodic partas. 105. visit the subdivisional headquaters for a period not exceeding one week. (b) The land must be actually cultivated with some permanent crop.103. the fulfilment of which must be stated in a report to be submitted through and certified by the Supervisor Kanungo. (1) It will be the duty of the recorder to prepare during the summer recess new pattas for annual holdings or periodic holdings for which new pattas have been ordered to be issued. within a period of three months from the date of receipt of the application. surveyed. But no periodic pattas should be proposed or ordered to be issued unless formal applications have been made affixing court fee stamps worth Rupee one or higher denomination as may be fixed by Government from time to time and premium for conversion of annual land to periodic has been paid in one or more instalments and at the rate as fixed by Government from time to time. He must take with him his own field chitha and the local periodic Jamabnadi. (e) Perparation of a list of fields converted from agricultural to nonagricultural uses. The recorder will inspect all the fields including those already inspected in the spring tour for recording of area under different crops and 44 . no new periodic pattas shall be proposed or ordered to be issued for lands within an area covered by a mining lesse or situated within a town area or within 2 miles from the town area or within such distance from the town area as may be notified by the State Government from time to time. (g) Recording of seasonal crops areas under different and fifferent land utilisation. The recorder will then prepare his field map for the ensuing tour by inking up periodic and annual fields newly settled. Provided that in the immature and fluctuating villages where temporary cultivation is practised and where the boundaries of holdings are subject to changes due to floods. The recorder’s work in the winter tour will fall under the following heads :– Operation of cold weather tour. (d) Inspection of survey marks. as may be fixed by Government from time to time. Distribution of pattas 108. (f) Preparation of a list of persons possessing or acquiring land in excess of the total holding prmissible under the law on Ceiling. In surveying and mapping supplementary settlement lands the recorder will follow rules 44-49 and he should again visit all sarkari dags to ensure that no land taken up escapes assessment. 109. both irrigated and unirrigated separately and collection of other land uses statistics. (a) Distribution of patta (b) Supplementary survey and settlement (c) Recording of area under different crops. SECTION 8– WINTER TOUR 107. All sarkari lands taken up for possession without obtaining orders of settlement shall be assessed to tauzi-bahir revenue and carried to tauzi-bahir jamabandi and recorder shall submit encroachment reports for such unauthorised occupations. 106. the annual dags may be kept in pencil. if any. The recorder should complete distribution of regular settlement pattas by the 15th November. Survey for supplementary settlement.(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing parts of the rule. except under special orders of Government and on payment of such premium. or non-maintenance of permanent boundaries. (c) Totalling of jamabandi and field chitha. to facilitate the preparation of the jama-wasil or tauzi by the mauzadar or the tahsildar. check with class map and the note book. All lands taken up in the supplementary settlement will be treated as annual. old fallows denote land kept fallow for 2 to 5 years. (g) Preparation of new pattas. 111. (d) Preparation of village and circle supplementary plus and minus settlement abstract. as this arrangement will leave him more time for his field work.WINTER RECESS 110. Culturable waste denotes land kept fallow more than 5 years and also includes lands which have never been cultivated but fit for cultivation. SECTION 9 . While collecting information about fallow land. Current fallow denotes land which is kept fallow for the current year. the pattas will not be cut out in the jamabandi but a note will be left in the remarks column of the jamabandi that they are provisionally excluded. other fallows or culturable waste land as the case may be. (h) Copying field chithas for the ensuring year. if possible. He will devote the period from 1st November to 30th November and 1st January to 15th January for recording of area under crops and collection of other land uses statistics. Proper care should be exercised in recording double and multiple cropping area. (i) Preparation of irrigation abstract. Those pattas the lands of which are found to be occupied by the pattadar 45 Class of pattas new and reincluded . When periodic pattas are provisionally excluded from regular settlement under rule 208.collection of other land uses statistics. The duties of the recorder during the winter recess will fall under the following heads– (a) Verification of areas. Lands of the kinds mentioned in rule 105 will be converted into periodic at the following regular settlement. the recorder will ascertain from the cultivators accurately the period of keeping the land fallow and then record as current fallow. (f) Preparation of the crop abstract part II. It is desirable that. (b) Preparation of the annual supplementary Jamabandi. The enquiry by the Kanungo and the Sub-Deputy Collector under rules 158 and 207 must be finished before the Supplementary settlement. (e) Preparation of the area abstract. the recorder should be permitted to perform these duties in his lot under the supervision of the Kanungo. .. This. will not give the total forest area.should be restored in the periodic jamabandi in the suplementary settlement and should not be converted into annual.. (ii) While compiling the area abstract. The first part will be for the cadastral area and the second part for the non-cadastral area. The forest areas under the control of the Forest Department will be still left out.e. the previous note in the remarks column in the jamabandi being crossed out.. As this forest area cannot be accounted for in this chitha and area abstract to be prepared by the Recorder. may be roughly estimated by the recorder and noted in column 14 of Area Abstract. Part I will be obtained from the chitha and noted in column 2 of Area Abstract. b) Supervisor Kanungo to Circle Officer . these figures should be obtained from the District Forest Authorities at the district level as the third part of the forest area in the district. (v) Authorities at the various levels will submit the area abstract for their respective jurisdictions in accordance with the following time table– a) Recorder to Supervisor Kanungo . 46 1st March. Supplementary settlement abstract. i. and irrigation abstract. The recorder will submit the village-wise consolidated abstracts along with the compilation sheets to the Supervisor Kanungo. The second part.. crop and irrigation abstracts for his lot which should reach the Sepervisor Kanungo within the specified time. (iii) The forest area of the village will consist of two parts. 112.. 15th March. As provided in the area abstract. (i) The recorder immediately on coming to office will start the lot plus and minus settlement abstract... however. Page totals should also be made in the chitha in respect of crop abstract Part II and irrigation abstract. In cases where the land is not occupied. (iv) The difinitions and explanations for other classes of land-use are given under Rule 59. pattas.. forests in non-cadastral area... the recorder will first obtain the page totals of the chitha for area in accordance with the classification of land on the basis of its use and note down the page totals in the area abstract form for compilation of the village totals. The sum of all these three types of forest area should be noted in the Area Abstract at the district level. these are to be obtained separately for settled land and unsettled lands. He will then prepare village-wise area. The Supervisor Kanungo will keep the compilation sheets with him for one year after submission of the abstracts to the Circle Officer. crop abstract. . The two parts will be added and noted in column 28 of the Area Abstract. a report should be submitted to the Deputy Commissioner for obtaining the sanction of the commissioner to the exclusion and the entries in the jamabandi will be cut out after the sanction of the Commissioner is received. d) Deputy Commissiner to the Director of Statistic with copy to Government 15th April.. 31st March. Columns have been provided for recording the area irrigated and area unirrigated in respect of each of the crop. Statistics with copy to Government. The method of mixed cropping is rarely practised is Assam. . 15th March (v) State Government to Central Government. 15th May.. In Hill districts where Jhum cultivation is done. mixed cropping is resorted to in some areas. The authorities at the various levels will submit the Crop Abstract for their respective jurisdiction in accordance with the following time table– a) Part I – (i) Recorder to Supervisor Kanungo– 1st July. 1st February (ii) Supervisor Kanungo to Circle Officer. The recorders will prepare the crop abstract in Part I after the spring tour and in Part II after the winter tour.. v) State Government to Central Government 16th Sep tember..1st March (iv) Deputy Commissioner to the Director of Statistics with copy to Government. iv) Deputy Commissioner to the Director of15th August. Columns have been provided for recording of all the crops on allIndia basis excepting some crops which are either grown in negligible area or not grown at all in Assam.. 15th April 47 ...c) Circle Officer to Deputy Commissioner . These columns may be filled up from the chitha. (vi) Crop abstract has been split up into two aprts. In the plains districts mixed cropping is not extensively done except in case of Autumn (Ahu) and winter (Bao) paddy. e) State Government to Central Government ... (iii) Circle Officer to Deputy Commissioner–30th July.. (ii) Supervisor Kanungo to Circle Officer–15th July. Two crop mixtures are generally sown and the practice of sowing 3 or 4 crops as substantial components of the mixture is rare Some columns have been provided in crop abstract for recording the major crop-mixtures only...15th February (iii) Circle Officer to Deputy Commissioner.. b) Part II– (i) Recorder to Supervisor Kanungo. but mutation not sanctioned. The recorder will then prepare from the current field chithas in accordance with rule 57 new field chithas for a third of the villages of his lot. When a chitha is rewritten. In cases where an entry has been made in Column 8. crop and irrigation abstracts. The authorities at the various levels will submit the irrigation abstract for their respective jurisdictions in accordance with the following time table– (i) Recorder to Supervisor Kanungo. the Settlement Officer will be responsible for collection of crop and land uses statistics and compilation of area. In cases of sanctioned mutations the entry in column 7 (names of pattadar) will be changed according to the orders passed. 15th April.(vii) After the completion of the area and crop abstracts for his lot. (iv) Deputy Commissioner to the Director of Statistics with copy to Government. every dag of the new chitha will be compared by another recorder with the corresponding dag of the old chitha. When a recorder has re-written the field chitha of a village in accordance with this rule. 15th February. 1st March. The Kanungo will then sign and date a certificate on the fly-leaf of the new chitha to the effect that he has carried out this comparison. the recorder will prepare annual pattas for supplementary-settlement lands (Dariabadi). Preparing new draft Chitha 113. There should be a few blank pages in every chitha on which the SubDeputy Collector and the Supervisor Kanungo will note each visit which they make to the village itself and any instructions which they give to the recorder in respect of that village. sufficient space should be left between each field entry for recording the crop statistics. (viii) The recorder after preparation of the area and crop abstracts and preparation of annual pattas for supplementary settlement lands. 48 . The Supervisor Kanungo will also compare at least 10 per cent of the dags of the new chitha with the corresponding dags of the old chitha and will initial the dags which he compares. (v) State Government to Central Government. Both the recorders will sign and date the fly-leaf of the new chitha. the entry will be repeated. (ix) During the currency of a resettlement operation. 15th March. 1st February (ii) Supervisor Kanungo to Circle Officer. will prepare the irrigation abstract in the prescribed form. (iii) Circle Officer to Deputy Commissioner. . there should be very little unsurveyed area in any district.. the area occupied.. the crop grown and the other particulars prescribed and to keep the record correctly upto-date year by year. Form 4. The chitha will contain all fields. The Chitha 120. Numbering of fields 119. 118.. preceding it in the chitha. but the number of a periodic field must never be changed. Method of Survey.. and will be rewritten every year.. (3) Relinquishment register . the following rules will be observed.. In order to ascertain the area of each field. (4) Faut. As most of the unsurveyed areas would be surveyed either on traverse or by triangulation under rule 18... In unsurveyed areas the records to be kept by a recorder do not include a map but he will keep a rough sketch in pencil-drawing showing the areas with plot numbers. Fields will be numbered serially for each village... The recorder will write up the chitha at the same time that he surveys the fields. 115. Tour and recess 117. Ferar and Jotrahin list . if any. the name of every person occupying land.. The other forms and registers to be maintained for unsurveyed areas are as follows – (1) Annual Jamabandi . . the class of the land. Form 6 (5) Plus and minus settlement abstract 49 From 11.. south.SECTION 10 – UNSURVEYED AREAS 114.. In unsurveyed as in surveyed areas the duty of the recorder is to enter correctly in a chitha... . The average length multiplied by the average breadth gives the rough area.. (2) Periodic Jamabandi. the recorder will measure the four sides with a ‘tar’ of 12 feet and enter the lengths in the proper columns in the chitha... Form 5. Form 4. entering the boundaries of the fields on the north.. He will maintain in a blank page of the chitha a list of new fields. east and west as well as its position with reference to the field. indicating the position and direction of the north line on the sketch and if possible with reference to the nearest cadastral village. So far as possible.. The re-corder will tour at the same seasons and be in recess from the same dates as are prescribed for the recorder of surveyed areas.. but where there is unsurveyed area. . Duty of recorder 116. unchanged cultivation will retain the same number from year to year... whether annual or periodic.. The lot plus and minus settlement abstract and the area crop and irrigation abstracts will be prepared in the same form and at the same time of the year as for surveyed areas. 122. The recorder will prepare the annual jamabandi. they will. 123. and faut. 50 . He will also correct the periodic Jamabandi in the manner prescribed for correcting the periodic papers in surveyed areas.121. ferar and jotrahin cases in the same manner as is laid down for surveyed areas. The recorder will deal with relinquishments. of couse be dealt with as surveyed. When unsurveyed areas have been surveyed under the procedure described in rule 18. 124. (b) An appeal against the order of the Director of Land Records shall lie to the Government in the Revenue Department within a period of 90 days from the date on which the appellant receives a copy of the order appealed against. dated the 15th July. 1933). that is necessary in the interest of efficiency that a Supervisor Kanungo should be transferred from one Sub-circle to another Sub-circle. 2109–R. in an inspection memo. 51 Tarnsfer . (i) In each district there is a sanctioned cadre of Supervisor Kanungos. a substitute may be appointed on usual grade pay during th period of such training not exceeding one term. (iv) Transfers of Supervisor Kanungos within the district will be made by the Deputy Commissioner. such transfer will be carried out. Transfers from one district to another should be exceptional and opinions of both the Deputy Commissioners concerned should be taken before the transfer is made. (iii) No school fees will be charged from those recommended by the Deputy Commissioner for admission for training to the special class. Only those who have successfully passed the Special Class course of the Assam Survey School should ordinarily be selected.PART II KANUNGOS Section 1– Supervisor Kanungo 125. Such transfers will be made by the Director of Land Records. When a recorder is deputed for training to the Special Class at the Assam Survey School to qualify for the post of Supervisor Kanungo and the Deputy Commissioner is satisfied that his work cannot be carried on without a substitute. When the Director of Land records has recorded. Supervisor Kanungos have been declared to be ministerial officers with effect from 1st August. (ii) (a) An appeal against the order of Deputy Commissioner for appointment to a permanent post shall lie to the Director of Land Records within 60 days from the date on which the appellant receives a copy of the order appealed against. 1933 (vide Government order No. The charge should be paid from the budget of the Deputy Commissioner concerned. Appointments to the office of the Supervisor Kanungos are made by the Deputy Commissioner from among the recorders of his district. Previous sanction of the Director of Land Records should be obtained when it is proposed on special grounds to appoint a candidate who has not passed the Special Class course of the Assam Survey School. A register of candidates considered by the Deputy Commissioner suitable for the post should be maintained in each Subdivision. Proposal for the redistribution of Sub-circle involving neither increase nor decrease in the sanctioned staff of Supervisor Kanungos of the district may be sanctioned by the Commissioner. Proposals for the creation or redistribution of sub-circles involving increase or decrease in the sanctioned staff of Supervisor Kanungos of a district will be submitted by the Deputy Commissioner direct to the Director of Land Records. the power of the Deputy Commissioner in this respect will be exercised by the Settlement Officer. When the Commissioner is in doubt as to the order. The Deputy Commissioner has power to suspend Supervisor Kanungo and impose minor punishment (e. A Supervisor Kanungo should maintain a bicycle in good condition for which he may be granted advance by the Deputy Commissioner. censure. 15 generally equal to the number of Supervisor Kanungos. the grounds of these together with statistics of the population. Along with the annual report. to Government for sanction. number of recorders.g. after consultation with the Director of Land Records.g. (vi) Rule 27 in respect of travelling allowance and mileage applies mutatis mutandis to Supervisor Kanungos. 20 and Rs. the total and settled area. compulsory retirement. The Director of Land Records will scrutinize and submit them with his recommendations or remarks. Punishment 126. land revenue and. etc. recovery from pay. reduction in rank) will be made only by the Commissioner. They will be granted and may be 52 . removal. if any.(v) Rule 7 regarding the acquisition of immoveable property and the settlement of land with recorders applies mutatis mutandis to Supervisor Kanungos. Orders involving a major punishment (e.) subject to an appeal to the Commissioner. In submitting such proposals. if the proposal is based upon extension of cultivation. (a) A number of monthly field alowances at Rs. the Deputy Commissioner or the Settlement Officer. he may consult the Director of land Records. if necessary. Regular proceeding should be drawn before punishment according to the procedure laid down by Government from time to time. 129. Increase of staff 127. appellate or original which he should pass in regard to the punishment of a supervisor Kanungo. the newly settled area for the last three consecutive years in the existing and proposed Sub-circles should be clearly set forth. During resettlement period. a statement of all the punishments imposed during the year on the Supervisor Kanungos of his district. number of established and fluctuating surveyed and unsurveyed villages. as the case may be will forward to the Director of Land Records. dismissal. 128.. is alloted to each district for distribution amongst them. Although an allowance will generally be available for each Kanungo. or the character severe.withdrawn by the Director of Land Records. The pay of Supervisor Kanungos whose headquarters are more than 10 miles distant from Sadar or Subdivisional headquarters may be remitted by postal money order. they will be granted only to those who thoroughly deserve it. be given leave of abstanece. A copy of the list should be sent to the Circle Officer with the signatures of both the relieved and the relieving Supervisor Kanungos. Provided that in case of illness of which the duration is short. Provided that (1) when a Supervisor Kanungo is expected in the Sadar or Sub-divisional headquarters in connection with his work within a short period after the close of the month. 134. during the following periods except on production of a medical certificate signed by a medical officer-in-charge of a dispensary:– Leave of absence (1) November 1st to date of filing the area and crop abstract. 133.g. No Supervisor Kanungo must. Information to raiyats 53 . Disbursement of pay 132. in resettlement and extension Survey. e. It is one of the principal duties of a Supervisor Kanungo to give the raiyats any information touching their holdings which they may require of him. The Supervisor Kanungo of each Sub-circle will live in his Subcircle at the place which is fixed by the Deuty Commissioner to be his headquarters. (2) when the Supervisor Kanungo’s. the certificate of the Sub-Deputy Collector may be accepted by the Deputy Commissioner. Should a Supervisor Kanungo be transferred. save in very special circumstances. headquarters are also the head-quarters of a circle and a peon is about to be sent there on other business. No field allowance will be drawn during any period of training in the Assam Survey School. In urgent cases the Sub-Deputy Collcetor may grant casual leave upto 10 days in the year. (b) Rewards will be given to Supervisor Kanungos for exceptionally good work. papers and instruments of the Sub-circle making a detailed list of all the papers and instruments in triplicate. Residence 131. (2) March 1st to date of completion of all papers of the regular settlement. the Supervisor Kanungo’s pay may be sent to him through the peon. his pay may be kept over and given to him on his arrival.. 130. he must personally make over to his successor the whole of the books. A Supervisor Kanungo must not leave his sub-circle except as provided for in these rules without the written permission of the Deputy Commissioner. Taking over charge. even wihout pay. Whenever a Supervisor Kanungo visits a recorder or inspects his works. When the Supervisor Kanungo attends a Government Office or Court or has occasion to attend upon any Government Officer. the general character of recorder’s work and any orders passed by him. with such details as may be necessary to enable suitable orders to be passed. The diary should show under the signature of the Sub-Deputy Collector. (iv) the equipment of the recorders of his sub-cirlce with the necessary survey instruments and the recovery of the price of any instruments lost or damaged otherwise than by fair wear and tear. Each Supervisor Kanungo will keep an inspection book in which the superior officers visiting the sub-circle will record their remarks. Entries to be made in re-corder’s diary and note book General responsibilities 139. The Supervisor Kanungo will maintain a diary in a paged bound book in the form prescribed in which he will enter each day an abstract of the nature and amount of each item of work done during the day. He must also at once report to the Sub-Deputy Collector any recorder who is found. If the Supervisor Kanungo has made any local enquiries. he must also examine his diary. 137. (b) the area and crop abstract of his sub-circle. to have submitted a false return of the work done by him during any week. The Supervisor Kanungo is responsible for– (i) the punctual submission of all returns and statements prescribed. Report of Recorder’s bad work 141. (ii) the proper and punctual performance by the recorders of their prescribed duties. his diary should show the nature of the case and officer under whose orders he has worked. and note in it the fact of such visit or inspection. Should a Supervisor Kanungo consider that a recorder’s work is slack or badly done. 138. the date on which the Supervisor Kanungo submits. by an examination of the weekly progress returns. 136.– (a) the last regular and supplementary general settlement (dual) for his sub-circle. where he has been working and where he spent the night. (iii) providing guidance to backward recorders in their duties.Diary 135. he should obtain the signature of the officer-in-charge or officer concerned attesting the number of days for which he was detained or number of days on which he attended. he will report the fact to the Sub-Deputy Collector. He will enter in the recorder’s note-book the results of any check lines that are run. 140. 54 . the Supervisor Kanungo will also devote the period from 15th May to 15th June during spring tour and 1st November to 30th November and 1st January to 15th January during winter tour for checking the work of the recorders in respect of collection of agricultural statistics. Like the recorders. Kanungo’s dhips 145. The Supervisor Kanungo will be on tour throughout the recorder’s Spring and Winter tours. the technique of random sampling will be adopted for selection of villages and dags. The District Statistical Officers will provide necessary guidance for selection of dags. They will then be entered in the recorder’s majmili map and in the register of survey marks. He will also ensure that the recorders correctly record in the chitha the areas under different crops and areas of land put to other uses. Of these 200 days. he must check the standard with his tape and correct it. during the whole of the recorders’ two field seasons. When the Supervisor Kanungo visits a village in which the recorder has laid out his measuring standard. for the purpose of assisting the recorder in his work. CHECK OF RECORDERS’ FIELD WORK 147. The Supervisor Kanungo will forward to the Sub-Deputy Collector every Sunday an abstract of his diary for the past week in Form 13. The Statistical Officer posted to the district will make available the list of selected villages to the Circle Officers during the last week of May for spring tour and 2nd week of Novemebr for winter tour. To make the supervision more effective.142. The 55 . at least 50 nighs will be spent outside headquarters. The Supervisor Kanungo will be supplied with a wired tape for the check of the recorder’s chains in his sub-circle. He will check intensively the crop recording work in respect of at least one village of each recorder. if necessary. Check of Recorder’s Chain 143. The particulars of land utilisation of the selected dags as observed by the Supervisor Kanungo and as recorded by the recorder in the chitha will be noted in the form supplied by the Statistical Officer. Such statements will be destroyed six months after the period to which they relate. The Prescribed minimum of touring is 200 days. Check of Recorder’s measuring standard 144. The Supervisor Kanungo will be on his rounds of testing the recorders’ work and seeing that they work correctly. In localities where for any reason the survey is difficult it will be the duty of the Supervisor Kanungo to have earthen mounds erected not less than four feet high and six feet in diameter at the base. Duration of tour 146. These mounds must be carefully placed in position by the Kanungo himself and marked by him on the recorder’s map. In each of such villages spot verification will be done on the entries made by the recorder in respect of at least 30 days. The check line should be marked on the recorder’s map by a dot-and-dash line.e. General Charater of check. Check by measurment. 153. Check by Inspection 154. Check by Inspection should be effected in the case of not less than 20 per cent of the entries in the Chitha. In fluctuating villages where no survey marks are fixed the check lines need not be connected with any theodolite points and may be run from field corner to field corner. and ordinarily lines of 20 to 30 chains will suffice. The first is effected by the chaining of check lines. Details of check lines will be entered (1) in the recorder’s note book and (2) in a field book of the Supervisor Kanungo. the second by visiting a field. permanent survey marks. as found on the ground and as shown by the recorder on the map. 1 link in 20) or unless they entail a complete re-survey. the name of the village and the numbers of the fields on which the check line began and ended should be entered. (2) the comparison of the Chitha entries for crop (including 56 . In all other cases the check lines should. The details must show any differences of total distance and Katan distances. as far as possible. that is to say. A check line should be run through any block of new cultivation exceeding 50 bighas in extent. The date of the check. The Supervisor Kanungo must himself correct errors which he discovers in the course of his check chaining. unless they affect the chained distance within individual fields by less than 5 per cent (i. Check by masurements 148. examining its boundaries and its features and by making enquiries concerning it.Supervisor Kanungo will submit two copies of the form immediately after the checking to his Circle Officer. 149. brought on to the map whether in the course of the regular survey or in that of the supplementary survey. Discrepancies between the recorder’s survey and the Supervisor Kanungo’s check may be due to the expansion or contraction of the map paper or to differences between the chains used for survey and for check respectively. In the latter case he must record a formal order in the recorder’s note book for re-survey of the fields and this resurvey must be effected immediately. is most necessary in the case of new fields. The aggregate length of check lines run each year should not be less than 160 chains for every square mile of new cultivation including land taken up in the supplementary settlement. But it should rarely be necessary to run a check line of greater length than 50 chains. start from and end upon. Care must be taken to secure that such discrepancies are not treated as errors and that the recorder’s survey is not altered on their account. It should include (1) the general examination of field boundaries to ascertain whether any change is needed. The Supervisor Kanungo’s checks are of two kinds. Correction of errors 151.. first. by chaining check lines. by measurement and second by inspection. Record of map checking. Discrepancies that are not due to error 152. Fluctuating villages 150. that theodolite stations and supplementary mounds are plainly visible on the ground. Inspection of boundary marks 57 . When the Supervisor Kanungo visits a village. One of the most important purposes of the Supervisor Kanungo’s inspection is to secure that newly taken land is surveyed. He must initial in the Chitha every number that he checks by inspection. and he must mention in his diary the map number of all fields so checked in each village. he must satisfy himself that all tri-junction marks are in proper order and in the case of established villages. and if it is found that newly-taken land has escaped assessment. He is responsible for the detection and correction of errors. Check of Relinquishment 158. Correction of Chitha entries 157. ferar and jotrahin fields noting on it the entries which he has checked and retaining a copy with him. If his check is not effected until the cold weather and he finds that fields have been wrongly listed and have been excluded from settlement. it will lie with the Supervisor Kanungo to explain how it escaped his check. recorded and assessed. In the course of the months of May or June or during the following cold weather. In unsurveyed areas there is every likelihood of unassessed cultivation. within his sub-circle in order to ascertain whether any cultivation has escaped assessment. current fallow or other fallow and culturable waste with the facts as seen on the ground and (3) the ascertainment.double crop). if any. The Supervisor Kanungo will forward to the Sub-Deputy Collector the recorders list of faut. ferar and jotrahin settlement holders and must attest the list with his signature. The Supervisor Kanungo will check as many as possible of the entries in the list of relinquished fields and in the list of fields of which the assessment is to be altered or on which additional assessment is to be imposed on account of their conversion to non-agricultural use. Ommission of newly taken land. he must submit a report for their re-inclusion in the papers of the supplementary settlement or their assessment as Tauzi-Bahir. Check of fault ferar and jotrahin lists 159. he will be assisted by the list of newly-taken fields entered by the recorder on a blank page of the Chitha. 155. by such enquiry as is possible of the correctness of the entry showing the settlement-holder in possession. 156. In making this check. the Supervisor Kanungo must check every entry in the recorder’s list of faut. Each year the Supervisor Kanungo must visit the unsurveyed areas. Erros that are found by the Supervisor Kanungo must be corrected by him. 58 . He will compare the page totals checked by him with the entries made by the recorders in the respective abstract form submitted by the recorders along with the villagewise consolidated abstracts. The assessments calculated by the recorder for new and changed fields must be checked by totalling the areas of such fields class by class. the Supervisor Kanungo is responsible that this recorders understand the calcualtion of revenue by the soil-unit system. He will check 10 per cent of the area calcualtions and land classification for new and changed fields. The Supervisor Kanungo will check at least ten per cent of the page totals in respect of crop and other land uses statistics in case of experienced recorders and twenty per cent in case of inexperienced recorders. and that each one of them understands what is expected of him. Village-wise statements for crop. In tracts that have been resettled. Check of Comparison 165. 163. on the next opening day) and crop abstract Part II.CHECK OF RECORDER’S RECESS WORK Control and Check of recess work. 161. He will further compare : – (1) five percent of the jamabandi entries with the corresponding chitha entries. Check of the Calculation of new assessments. then on the next opening day). he will submit a list of defaulting recorders to the Circle Officer immediately. He will sign against each page total in the abstract form whose totals are checked in the chitha. If any recorder does not submit the crop abstract Part I on 1st July (if 1st July happens to be holiday or a Sunday. and will be responsible that the various tasks to be completed are taken up systematically by each of them. area abstract and irrigation abstract on 1st February (if 1st February happens to be a holiday or Sunday. area and irrigation abstracts are to be prepared in duplicate and one copy of each of them should be submitted to the Circle Officer on or before the specified dates. He should check the revenue calculations in the case of 10 per cent of the new fields to ascertain whether the correct multipliers have been used (Rule 92). He will check the village totals in respect of at least 20 percent of the villages before preparation of the consolidated villagewise statement for his sub-circle. 162. 160. by claculating the assessement for the class totals and by comparing the result with the total assessment obtained by adding up the individual assessment of the fields. Check of totalling 164. The Supervisor Kanungo will personally direct and control the work of his recorders during the recess. As the register is in three parts it should be maintained in three volumes. He will sign all the field chithas and Jamabandis as passed by him. B and C. A page will be allotted to each village in which he will enter a line of the totals for each year. (4) the entries of faut. The Instrument Day Book Account will be in book form showing the receipt and issue of instruments. ferar and Jotrahin lists with the Chitha. During the currency of a re-settlement operation. 174. 166. are :– Other registers to be maintained by the Supervisor Kanungo (1) Instrument Ledger Account (Form D). 168. the check shall be twenty-five percent. He will scrutinise each map as inked up and see that it has been inked up in accordance with rules. The statement for the regular settlement is due from him on the 1st August and that for the supplementary settlement on the 1st February. Settlement assessment Statement (dual) REGISTERS 172. appended. The most imporatant register to be maintained by the Supervisor Kanungo is the statistical register of village areas. The Supervisor Kanungo will check a certain number of entries in each plus and minus settlement abstract. In the Cachar district where mutation is the main work of the recorder. 167. He will check at least ten percent of corrections of the local periodic Jamabandi effected by the recorder under rule 100. 173. It is one of the most important duties of the Supervisor Kanungo to prepare the settlement assessment statement (dual) for each Mauza or Pargana of his sub-circle . He will compare all new pattas with the Jamabandi and initial them.(2) the Jamabandi total area with the Chitha total area of settled holdings. (3) the entries of the relinquishment register with the Chitha. Check of mutations 171. the Settlement Officer will be responsible for getting regular and supplementary duals prepared by the Supervisor Kanungos. (2) Instrument Day Book Account. A few pages will be allotted to each kind of instrument and entries will be made as illustarted below :– 59 . 169. 170. Recorders and Supervisor Kanungos shall give a certificate on the duals to the effect that “all Sarkari dags have been visited and that no occupied Sarkari land has been left unassessed”. This will be in Forms A. A number of pages will be allotted for each recorder’s lot and for each year four lines of figures will be entered. The following is the list of various returns for the timely submission of which the Supervisor Kanungo is responsible :– 60 . List of Supervisor Kanungos. 1961. a statement of the condition of the boundary marks in his charge to the Deputy Commissioner through the Sub-Deputy Collector concerned. On 1st July the Supervisor Kanungo shall submit to the SubDeputy Collector an abstract of the instrument ledger account and apply for sanction to write off unserviceable instruments. 1962 Balance in hand 175. 1961 10 Issued to recorder X and Y on 1st November. A compiled statement in this from for the district will be forwarded by the Deputy Commissioner to the Director of Land Records. RETURNS Annual return of Survey instruments. showing respectively (1) the number of serviceable instruments in hand at commencement of the year. 178. The Sub-Deputy Collector will after enquiry sanction the writing off of unserviceable instruments (See rule 220). Annual work return 177. (2) the number become unserviceable or lost during the year.Chains :– In hand on 1st July. Each statement must show the work of the preceding settlement year ending on 30th September. The abstract ledger account will be forwarded to the Registrar Kanungo (See rule 192). 176. The Supervisor Kanungo will report the results of his inspection work for the twelve months ending 30th September by submitting in duplicate to the Deputy Commissioner through the Sub-Deputy Collector concerned on the 1st October a statement in form F appended. On the 1st October of each year he will submit for the twelve months ending 30th September in standardised form 8. The Instrument Ledger Account will be in Form D. returns 179. Received from Registrar Kanungo on 31st January. (3) the number supplied during the year and (4) balance of serviceable instruments in hand at the close of the year. He will at the same time apply for instruments required to supply deficiencies. The Deputy Commissioner will forward a copy of the statement to the Director of Land Records. (3) Custody and issue of instruments. Deputy Commissioners are expected to give due weight to any recommendation for punishment or dismissal which may be made by the Director of Land Records and in the case of any difference of opinion. (3) Supplementary Settlement Statement for his Sub-Circle by 1st February. The main duties of the Registrar Kanungos are as follows :– (1) Custody and maintenance of the Jamabandi registers. SECTION – 2 REGISTRAR KANUNGO 180.(1) Weekly Abstract Diary. (7) The forwarding punctually of all the crop statistics returns to departments concerned. Registrar kanungos are appointed. (2) Regular Settlement Statements for his Sub-Circle by 1st August. (4) Preparation of recorder’s and Supervisor Kanungos pay bills. The principal duty of the Registrar Kanungo is to maintain the Jamabandi Register up-to-date. 61 Duties . punished and dismissed by the Deputy Commissioner and appeals against the Deputy Commissioner’s order lie to the Commissioner. the Director of Land Records is at liberty to refer the matter to the Commissioner. by 1st (7) Annual instrument return October. 181. (8) Annual survey marks return. (5) Other crop statistics returns on due dates. (4) Area crop and Irrigation Abstracts for his Sub-Circle on due dates. (6) Preparation of the general settlement statements (dual) for the Mauzas and for the whole subdivision. Appointment and Punishment. (5) Preparation of consolidated area crop and irrigation abstracts and crop forecast returns. 182. (2) Custody and issue of maps. (8) Preparation and timely submission of other returns to the Director of Land Records and Government. (6) Annual work return. the records of the partition cases shall be sent to the Sub-Deputy Collector who will give effect to the orders by correcting the map. so as to give effect to the orders passed for mutation or partition or for alteration of classification and altered or additional assessment of agricultural fields converted to non-agricultural use. where necessary. be carried to the Jamabandi register by the recorder under rule 100. (ii) In the case of orders for mutation or partition passed by a SubDeputy Collector or other officers duly empowered on the recorder’s Chitha.Maintenance of Jamabandi Register (1) by correcting it or causing it to be corrected. Similar action shall be taken by the Registrar Kanungo in respect of the orders passed by the Civil Court under rule 118 or by the Deputy Commissoner under rule 119 of the Rules framed under the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation. land which has been relinquished or has been excluded as faut. in due course. All corrections in the Jamabandi Register shall be made in red ink and shall bear. ferar or jotrahin or settlement of which has been annulled and by adding or causing to be added any new land which is settled periodically or any land which is transferred from annual to periodic. the recorder (as required by rule 100) shall make the initial correction in the Jamabandi Register. In the case of orders for partition passed by a Court. (2) by striking off or causing to be struck off. 183. Orders for mutation or partition shall be carried out in the following manner:- Giving effect to orders for mutation and partition (i) In the case of orders for mutation passed by a Court in the regular procedure. the files shall be sent to the Registrar Kanungo. The corrections thus made in the local periodic Jamabandi will. the Chitha and the local periodic Jamabandi and by preparing separate leases. in addition to any other signature. He shall sign and date the correction in the Jamabandi Register and shall make a reference in the column of remark of the Jamabandi Register to the number and date of the regular case He shall also make a note of compliance in the record of the case. who shall personally correct the Jamabandi Register as require by the order of the Court. A somewhat similar procedure should be followed in giving effect to orders for annulment or settlement of estates under section 90 of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation and also in respect of patta lands acquired for public purposes. shall affix his initials and date thereto and shall make a reference in the column of remarks of the Jamabandi register to the order of the Sub-Deputy Collector or other officers duly 62 . the signature and date of the Registrar Kanungo and a reference to the authority for the correction. Procedure in registering exclusions and additions. When the Registerar Kanungo receives from each Sub-Deputy Collector under rule 102. who will forward them to the Registrar Kanungo and return the corrected pattas on receipt to the applicants.empowered. the Registrar Kanungo will obtain his information from the recorder’s Chitha. Such applications may be presented before the Circle Sub-Deputy Collector. at the same time. Correction of pattas 184. At the close of the summer recess all recorders will be required to present themselves at the Registerar Kanungo’s Office (Rule 100) and will under his supervision and control to correct the Jamabandi Register in red ink so as to bring on to it erasures and additions made in their Chithas. (iii) Both in the case of regular mutations and of Chitha mutations the Registrar Kanungo will see that the orders are properly carried out in regard to the transfer or otherwise of land from patta one to another. He shall also put his signature with date as a sign of compliance in column 7 of the recorder’s chitha. The abstract should be completed before the close of the summer recess and the figures should be available for the annual report. 187. The Registrar Kanungo shall then check. Transfer of recorder’s papers of mutations ordered in Court. the annual statement of mutations. When the land is to be transferred to another patta. The Registrar Kanungo will. Report of errors 185. When the land is to remain in its present patta. it will be removed entirely to that patta and the total revenue payable in respect of each patta will be altered accordingly. see that the recorders correct their field Chitha and the local periodic Jamabandi. the correction will be made by the Registrar Kanungo. countersign and date the entries which have been made by the recorder in the Jamabandi register. for the correction of his periodic patta. he will prepare an abstract for the subdivision (Form 15) and will bind up the abstract along with the forms received from the Sub-Deputy Collectors. The Registrar Kanungo will bring to the notice of the Sub-Deputy Collector any cases in which conflicting orders have been passed about the same matter by Courts and by Sub-Deputy Collector or other officers duly empowered in the field. the new name will be added jointly to that of the existing pattadar and a note will be made in the remark column of each field concerned to the effect that so much land bearing so much revenue has been recorded in the possession of so and so by virtue of the order of such and such date. Register of mutation 186. As regards the striking out of relinquished and excluded land and the addition of new land. To facilitate this. so as to carry on to these papers all mutations that have been entered during the past year in the Jamabandi register. 63 . in consequence of an order of mutation. (iv) When a settlement -holder applies. the Registrar Kanungo should keep a list village by village of pattas in which corrections have been made in the Jamabandi register. The Registrar Kanungo shall correct the Jamabandi in respect of all periodic pattas annulled under the orders of the Commissioner for faut, ferar or Jotrahin. The recorder shall copy these corrections to his local periodic Jamabandi and the Chitha in accordance with rule 101. Custody of recorded 188. The Registrar Kanungo is responsible for the coutody of the spare copies of he village maps. He will keep a map issue register in Form G appended. The register will contain entries regarding maps sold to the public as well as those issued free of charges for Government purposes. The challan numbers and dates supporting the sale entries should be mentioned in the remarks column and the challan should be kept in a separate file for the purpose of check. 189. The maps must be carefully stored on iron racks in the tubes provided for the purpose. In sorting them the following points must be attended to :– (1) All the copies of a single sheet must be kept in the same tube. (2) Copies of two different sheets must never be kept in the same tube, even if they relate to the same village (3) The name of village and mauza or pargana, the number of sheet in the village and the number printed in the sheet must be written on a piece of paper and pasted on the cap of the tube. (4) The tubes, when filled must be arranged serially on the rack according to mauzas or parganas. Custody of records. Disposal of old maps. Instruments 190. The Registrar Kanungo will be responsible for the safe custody of all records that are filed with him under the rules. 191. The Registerar Kanungo will make over to the record keeper for deposit in the revenue record room the old maps which are filed by the recorder under rule 55 after having them arranged according to the serial number and bound by mauza or parganas. These maps will be destroyed after the next resettlement has been completed. 192. He will retain charge of all instruments kept in stock and will maintain for the year ending 30th June on account of the receipt and issue of instruments. One or, if necessary, two pages of the book will be assigned to each instrument and headed “chains”, “pins”, “tapes”, etc. The entries will take the form of a simple plus and minus record, always showing after each transaction the date of transaction and the balance in stock as below :– 64 Date No. In hand 1st July 1960 10 Issued to Supervisor Kanungo on 2 1st November, 1961. 8 Received from the mathematical 10 instrument office on 1st January, 1962 Total in hand and so on 18 He will keep a ledger account in Form D. When, in accordance with rule 176, the Supervisor Kanungo sends an account of the instruments in his Sub-Circle, he will check the account by the ledger account and report all discrepancies to the Sub-Deputy Collector. New instruments will be issued to Supervisor Kanungos on indents passed by the Sub-Deputy Collector. 193. The Registrar Kanungo will take all steps so that sufficient supplies of the blank forms and stationery required by recorders are kept in stock. He will forward once in each year, before the close of December, to the recorder’s recess office, the full supply of blank forms and stationery that may be required by the recorders. Before making out the indent for forms or stationery, he should ascertain from the Sub-Deputy Collectors their exact requirements. The indent for stationery should be based on the standard requirements of stationery of the land records staff which is as follows : Indents should be prepared to ensure that the stationery articles in use each year do not fall below the standard :- 65 Forms and stationery Standard list of stationery to be supplied annually to each Supervisor Kanungo and recorder. Serial No. 1 Description of stationery Standard number required annually by each supervisor each Recorder Kanungo 2 3 4 1 Bank post paper According to requirements to each sub-circle 2 3 P 70 A paper, 30”x22” Cloth tracing 30” 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Brushes (Camal hair) Pencil H.H. Ditto H.H.H.H. Drawing pins Ruler flat (12”) Saucer colour Colours-Cobalt blue vandyke brown, cobalt green, indigo, ochre yellow, red chalk. ditto 10-20 yds acco rding to require ments of each sub-circle 3 2 1 ... 1 6 1 cake each 11 12 Ink, Indian Erasors rubber (Ink and pencil) large Ink glasses Ink powder, blue black Ditto,scarlet Steel pin nibs No, 166 Fine 1 cake Ditto red ink Penholder, clerical Paper blotting Paper foolscap Needle, small Cotton thread 18 2 6 sheets 6 quires 1 1 bell of 2 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 .... 3 1 4 1 1 Nill Remarks 5 This number should be in use and indents should be prepared accordingly 1/2 cake 1 2 1 2 1 packet 1/2 packet 1 packet 1/2 packet 2 2 for drawing purpose. 18 3 6 sheets 4 quires 1 tolas 1 ball of 2 tolas 66 This includes one for map ping. 196. Shillong and another to the Director of Land Records. Name of Mauza. as the case may be. He will maintain a register of pending surveys in the following form and put it up to the Deputy Commissioner or the Subdivisional Officer. 200. Crop statements 198. Shillong so as to reach his office not later than the 1st July. Name of village. unless the Deputy Commissioner decides for special reasons to retain it. The Registrar Kanungo is responsible for the punctual preparation of recorder’s and Supervisor Kanungo’s pay bills. 67 Recorder’s and Supervisor Kanungo’s pay bills . cerned. 4. 6. 197. The Registrar Kanungo will prepare a consolidated copy of the recorder’s area and crop abstracts for the whole subdivision. Diary books 195. Date of request for traverse. He will distribute before the 1st June in each year the Supervisor Kanungo’s and recorder’s bound diary books. Date of despatch of polygon to Sub-Deputy Collector conDate of passing of survey. Year of traverse. which will be forwarded to the Director of Agriculture. When the Sub-Deputy Collector’s diary is returned by the Deputy Commissioner. Register of candidates The register may be re-written when the Deputy Commissioner considers it necessary. 3. the Registrar Kanungo will take action on the Deputy Commissioner’s orders and then forward the diary to the Sub-Deputy Collector. must also be struck out. He will maintain a register of certificated candidates for the post of recorder in Form 1. It is his duty to bring to the notice of the Deputy Commissioner or Subdivisional Officer any case of delay in returning the acquittance rolls. A copy should be given to the Director of Statistics. 5. Sub-Deputy Collector’s diaries 199. 7. at the beginning of every field seasons :– 1. 2. The name of any candidate who shall not have obtained an appointment or shall have refused an acting appointment within 5 years from the date of his obtaining a certificate. The register of certificated candidates must be carefully kept up-to-date and in the names of candidates who are appointed as recorders must at once be struck out. Date of receipt of traverse polygon. They will be kept in the Sub-Deputy Collector’s Office and destroyed there after two years.194. When on tour. The Sub-Deputy Collector should be on tour for atleast 125 days including 25 night-thalts outside headquarters during the period from 1st October to 15th June. A circle Sub-Deputy Collector is also responsible for directing and checking the office work of his recorders during the winter and summer recesses. he must always keep the Registrar Kanungo informed of his movements. It in not enough that deficiencies in their work should be discovered and brought to notice by him at long intervals. that the Supervisor Kanungos constantly check the work of recorders of his Sub-Circle. 68 . To enable him to dispose of as many mutation case as possible. that the recorders begin their tours on the proper date.Orders of Deputy Commissioner. dated the 9th March. what is required is that he should Jeep a constant watch over the manner in which they are performing their duties. He is also responsible for timely submission of circle crop forecast returns and compilation of circle area. he should annually visit every village in his circle. 752R. 201. It is his duty to see that the recorders and Supervisor Kanungos act as herein ordered. The Sub-Deputy Collectors will accordingly attest the service books and the character rolls of recorders and keep them in their custody. The time occupied in recess inspection is exclusive of 125 days’ touring prescribed in the foregoing rule. (1) The Sub-Deputy Collector is directly responsible to the Deputy Commissioner for proper carrying out these rules. He will check the work of collection of agricultural statistics done by the recorders in some dags of the villages he visits. 1922). (3) The Circle Sub-Deputy Collectors should be regarded as heads of offices in respect of the recorders (mandals and patwaris) subordinate to them for the purpose for maintenance of their service books only (Government letter No. Duties during the recess 204. that the returns and statements prescribed are punctually submitted. so that any defects in their works may be noticed and remedied as soon as they occur. During these tours he will superintend and check the work of every recorder and see that the Supervisor Kanungo performs his duties properly. All orders affecting any recorder or Supervisor Kanungo passed by the Deputy Commissioner or Subdivisional Officer should be communicated by the Registrar Kanungo to the Sub-Deputy Collector concerned. crop and irrigation abstracts. (2) The Sub-Deputy Collector’s control over the work of the Supervisor Kanungo should be steady and sustained. PART III SUB-DEPUTY COLLECTOR General duties of the SubDeputy Collector 202. Amount touring required 203. so that there may not occur the least possible delay in communicating with him from the district or subdivisional headquarters. if he cannot complete his enquiries during the month of June.205. an abstract of the nature and amount of each item of field work done. correct any errors 69 Faut. he should. unless the Deputy Commissioner has ordered that it should be forwarded to the Director of Land Records. Each week he will note briefly in his diary the agricultural operations in progress. Check of recorders work He should check at least 5 per cent of the entries and mapping already checked by the Supervisor Kanungo. the occurrrence of epidemics or out-break of cattle diseases. by a general inspection of Sarkari dags. the place where he halts at night. see that no new cultivation has remained unsurveyed. Any instructions he gives to the recorder should be entered in a blank page of the Chitha concerned. who will record his orders and return it to the Registrar Kanungo. 207. the nature and amount of checking done. he should constantly test the accuracy of the checking already effected by the Supervisor Kanungos. He should verify on the spot and sign at least 75 per cent of the recorder’s lists of faut. After action has been taken on the Deputy Commissioner’s or Subdivisional Officer’s remarks. Throughout the year he will keep a diary book. but. He will paticularly include in his diary the result of the check done by him on the work of collection of agricultural statistics. showing. The Director of Land Records will return the diaries to the Deputy Commissioner after recording his remarks or instructions in the margin. and any other particulars to enable the Deputy Commissioner or Subdivisional Officer to know how work is proceeding. the diary will be filed. ferar and Jotrahin fields. any calamity affecting the lives of the people and any items of general information. in addition to checking the work of recorders. weekly to the Deputy Commissioner (through the Subdivisional Officer). of course. the crop prospects. Diary The diary should be written on half margin and forwarded in original. The field and office work of the Sub-Deputy Collector will generally be that laid down for Supervisor Kanungos. so as to ensure that the Supervisor Kanungo effects his checking honestly. the names of the Kanungos or recorders whose work he has inspected. . He should separately report to the Deputy Commissioner or Sub-divisional Officer for orders in all cases in which he finds the work of a Supervisor Kanungo or recorder backward or inaccurate. and when on tour the names of villages visited. where he should also note the date of his inspection of that village. 206. Only those diaries should be forwarded to the Director of Land Records which contain matters of special interest or on which instructions are required. He will. This verification may be effected by him during the cold weather following the preparation of the regular settlement papers. In fluctuating villages he should run at least one short checkiline (not exceeding 50 chains) for every 500 bighas of fluctuating cultivation. while at office. In fluctuating villages and in villages where cultivation is extending. ferar and 100 per cent of Jotrahin fields. such as a village path. general or special. He will during his spring tour check the proposals of the recorder for alteration or additional assessment of fields which have been converted to non-agricultural use. he will give effect to the corrections by re-including fields in the supplementary settlement papers or by assessing them as tauzibahir. applicable to his area and strictly follow them. the Subdivisional Officer or the SubDeputy Collector must satisfy himself that no public right. is being interferred with by any proposed settlement. unless any special enquiry is ordered by the Deputy Commissioner on receipt of this abstract. moreover. Authority to make settlement 209. (2) No new periodic pattas shall be issued for lands lying within an area covered by a mining lease except under special orders of Government. 70 . in most districts special instructions issued by the Government. All untested lists rate to be assumed to be correct for the purpose of making exclusions from the regular settlement papers. Delegation of powers may be made by the Deputy Commissioner subject to the limitations mentioned below and each Sub-Deputy Collector must acquaint himself with the limits of powers delegated to him. (4) Generally. with a note and recommendation as to the rate of altered or additional assessment. (3) The Deputy Commissioner. extensive delegation of powers is made to Sub-Deputy Collectors in charge of circles. Faut ferar and Jatrahin exclussion 208. no new settlement of waste land will be made except on application with proper court fee affixed to it. ferar and Jotrahin lists showing the exclusions which are to be made in drawing up the regular settlement papers and indicating in what cases the recorder’s lists have been tested and in what cases testing has been deferred to the cold weather. an abstract of the recorder’s faut. by the Commissioner or by the Deputy Commissioner applicable to certain areas or to classes of persons by which the power of the Sub-Deputy Collectors to issue pattas or to convert annual pattas into periodic has been circumscribed. It is not possible to deal with all these in one set of instructions and each Sub-Deputy Collector must ascertain the instructions.he discovers and if they are not discovered until the winter tour. and in general. There are. (1) The power of settlement of waste land is vested in the Deputy Commissioner by rule 2 of the Settlement Rules made under the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation. but under rule 3 of those rules the Deputy Commissioner may delegate his powers to subordinate officers. At the commencement of the summer recess he will submit to the Deputy Commissioner in form J appended. He will also submit to the Deputy Commissioner the list in from K of all fields which have been converted to nonagricultural use during the previous year. (6) The special restrictions on settlement (a) of town lands by settlement Rules 67-69. the powers of the Sub-Deputy Collectors and of the Deputy Commissioner in respect of settlement of waste land and conversion of annual pattas into periodic shall be exercised by the Assistant Settlement Officer and the Settlement Officer respectively. Entries that are correct and undisputed will be signed by him with date and his signature will 71 . 210. When a compact block of waste land comprising an area of 50 bighas or more is available for settlement the area would be settled with local landless cultivators on co-operative basis. being the latest till now. 1947) for the purpose of ordinary cultivation or purposes of anciliary thereto shall be made according to the provision of that chapter and the Rules made thereunder and in conformity with such policy and procedure as laid down by Government from time to time. is printed in Appendix C. Delegation of powers (7) Powers may be delegated to Sub-Deputy Collectors in-charge of circles to make new settlement of land for ordinary cultivation with individual cultivator upto an area of 12 bighas or any other area fixed by Government from time to time. (8) All pattas shall in the first place be annual. with prior approval of Government. (1) Apart from checking the work of recorders and Supervisor Kanungos. a periodic patta shall be issued only by the Deputy Commissioner and under conditions as laid down in rule 105. For this purpose he should work upon the recorder’s Chitha. the Sub-Deputy Collector has a most important duty to perform in the disposal of mutation cases. Annual pattas will be converted into periodic only on receipt of a report from the recorder and Supervisor Kanungo under rule 105. (9) During the currency of resettlement operations. (b) of road side lands by Settlement Rule 23. For lands exceding this area. provided all the conditions of rule 105 are fulfilled.(5) Settlement of land in areas constituted into belts or blocks under the provisions of Chapter X of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation (Amendment Act. (c) of lands near a municipality or notified area by Settlement rule 28 and (d) on settlement of any new land with one who already holds lands upto a ceiling laid down by Government from time to time must be observed. enquiring in the village concerned in regard to the accuracy of each entry made in column 8. The area of any annual patta to be converted into periodic by the Sub-Deputy Collector shall not exceed 30 bighas or any other area as may be fixed by Government from time to time. Not less than 25 per cent of such reports shall actually be tested by the Sub-Deputy Collectors himself. actual cultivators in order of preference as laid down in the latest Government resolution on land settlement policy. All new settlements of lands will be made only with landless. The resolution of 1958. but the Sub-Deputy Collector may convert annual pattas into periodic. Sarpanch or Gaobura so that as many villagers as possible may be present. Filed mutation undisputed 211. the Sub-Deputy Collector should at least once every two years read out each local periodic Jamabandi in the presence of the villagers concenred. or direct the persons claiming the land to file regular mutation petitions in the circle office. He should also ask the recorder and the Gaobura to get in touch with the local Gaon Panchayat 72 . (6) Mutations and partitions of all Town Lands shall be effected by the formal office procedure only. Chapter IV of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation being used to compel the filing of an application for mutation. as far as possible for disposal in office of all mutation cases which he could not dispose of in the field season. When on tour he should. Attached Sub-Deputy Collector though invested with mutation and settlement powers shall not ordinarily execise these powers unless specially directed by the Circle Officer in writing either generally or in respect of particular areas or cases.authorise the Registrar Kanungos to make the mutation. (7) During the currency of resttlement operations. Entries which are not correct will be struck out by the Sub-Deputy Collector under his signature. (1) As the majority of transfers are undisputed. give notice to the recorder. either of his own motion. (2) During each recess the Sub-Deputy Collector should of his own motion take action. special attention must be paid to it more particularly in areas where cultivation is settled. (5) In addition to checking individual field and testing mutations noted by the recorder. will take a separate note of the case and will. the Sub-Deputy Collector should endeavour to suit the convenience of the people and to minimise the office and process serving work by doing as much mutation work as possible in the village itself. all undisputed mutations and partitions recorded in the Chitha in respect of lands in rural areas shall be passed by the Assistant Settlement Officer (See rule 57 of the Executive Instructions in the Assam Resttlement Manual) . (3) Mutation cases which are disposed of in office should never be shown in the return as mutations by summary procedure. In regard to entries that are disputed. the powers given by section 58 (1) (Part I. Chapter IV of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation. population dense and mutations numerous. a few days before visiting a village. cause proclamation and notices to be issued for its hearing at office on the date fixed by him. As this is the only method of finding out whether the record is up-to-date. he will record in the remark column of the Chitha that there is a dispute. (4) All mutation cases in office should be disposed of strictly in conformity with the provisions of part I. he will not record evidence but leave the case for disposal in office. and proceed as if an application for mutation has been received treating the persons whose names had been mutated as applicants. if there is any objection to the change. On receipt of the objection petition within the said time limit of three years. for the purpose of passing field mutation and reading the Jamabandi. as the case may be. In cases of inheritance. (2) It is not unlikely that some mistakes might now and then occur in these summary enquiries. If the parties do not agree. (a) Land will be transferred from one patta to another during the pendency of a settlement. Disputed cases 213. to the names of the heirs entered by the recorder will be sufficient to justify the effecting of mutation by the Sub-Deputy Collector. provided that the Sub-Deputy Collector or other officer duly empowered has so ordered when decideing a dispute under the last rule or both sides have consented in writing before the SubDeputy Collector or other officer duly empowered to the transfer of the land. ascertaining from each transferor. but when the pattadar is present and he agrees to the transfer the fact should invariably be noted in the remark column of the Chitha. 212. If. No evidence need be recorded. But in case of any doubt as regards possession and prima facie title. the Sub-Deputy Collector shall immediately cancel the mutation order complained of.and to inform it of his impending visit. Having collected a number of villagers he will go through the undisputed changes in possession noted in column 8 of the recorder’s chitha. when a dispute exists. if present. the Sub-Deputy Collector can bring the parties to agreement without difficulty. The serial number of all registered deeds and the year of registeration are also to be noted in the remark column of the Chitha. on the part of those present. the Sub-Deputy Collector or other officer duly empowered should encourage them to file a joint petition embodying their consent. the Sub-Deputy Collector shall not effect mutation. he should do so. noting on the Chitha the existence of a dispute. but he must be careful in such cases to take the signature or thumb impression of both parties in the Chitha. If a transferor be absent. Ordinarily he should sit in the office of the Gaon Panchayat or the Anchalik Panchayat. But a safeguard has been provided by section 53A (2) of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation to the effect that any person aggrieved by a summary order may formally submit objection petition within a period of three years from the date of the order for setting aside the said order. it will be safe to effect mutation if every one of that village present agrees and on production of registered deeds by the transferee. When both sides have verbally consented to the transfer of the land. the absence of any objection. Transfer from one patta to another 73 . Such petition should be made to the Sub-Deputy Collector in cases disposed of by him or by mauzadars. the Sub-Deputy Collector will cancel the recorder’s survey and refer the parties to Court. the provisions of Part I Chapter IV of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation should be strictly followed. (c) When the order of the Sub-Deputy Collector or other officer duly empowered is to the effect that in addition to a change of name. (1) When formal applications for mutation are received. (1) The Sub-Deputy Collector may at the same time give effect to undisputed cases of partition the survey of which has already been carried out by the recorder. 29”. action will be taken on them as regular revenue cases. or by (b) issuing new pattas where there are no pattas to which partitioned dag or dags can be added. notices will be issued and the case will be duly enquired into in office. It will then be given effect to in the Jamabandi Register and the local periodic Jamabandi. 18 to patta No. (2) Partition can be effected in two ways. he shall proceed as in clause (b) and shall also note the particulars of the transfer. declaring whether the new dag shall remain in the present patta or shall be transferred to another patta. If mutation is ordered. Undisputed cases of partitions 214. either by (a) Transferring a dag or dags. he shall record an order. the Sub-Deputy Collector must satisfy himself that no arrears of revenue are outstanding against the estate. If any of the parties to the partition object. (2) While disposing of mutation cases in office. by recording summary evidence. the land should be transferred to another patta.(b) When the order of the Sub-Deputy Collector or other officer duly empowered is to the effect that the land shall remain in its present patta but that a change shall be made in the recorded possession. or a portion or portions thereof. Applications for mutation should 74 . (3) Before giving effect to partition under this rule. All such orders will be made in the Chitha in blue pencil or ink and will be signed and dated by the Sub-Deputy Collector or other officer duly empowered. the Circle Officer will fill up the final order in form 9 with his own hand. (d) When the Sub-Deputy Collector acting under rule 45 (iii) has sanctioned the creation of a new dag. from one patta to another with the consent of the parties. That is to say. Office mutation procedure 215. the SubDeputy Collector or other officer duly empowered will cross out the entry in column 7 of the Chitha and mark the entry in column 8 for transfer to column 7. thus–”from patta No. If any. (4) During the currency of settlement the Assistant Settlement Officer will pass all undisputed partition recorded in the Chitha by the recorder. consistent with the above rules. Part I.9 of Assam Schedule XVII. at its or his discretion. without further enquiry. however. if no objection be preferred. keep the case pending for reasons to be recorded in the order sheet. They should be served in the manner prescribed in section 52 of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation and the Rule 122 framed thereunder. an objection is received.5 (Bengali)]. When the notices have been returned with a certificate of service. 5 OF PART II Bengali– of Assam Schedule XVII.10 of Part I (Assamese) be filled in form 26 [–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––of Assam 6 of part II (Bengali) Schedule XVII] and reports called for on such applications should be in form No. is in proper form and contains all the necessary information and (b) that the general and special notices required under section 52(1) and (2) and section 56 (1) of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation have been duly published and served respectively. The Registering Officer must in every case satisfy himself by personal inspection of the papers(a) that the application for mutation has been duly verified. the necessary changes to be made in the Jamabandi register and the local periodic Jamabandi.6 (Assamese) and part II form No. (4) If. if the said Court or Officer be satisfied that there was suf75 . He will ensure that such a final order in the said form is duly given effect to by necessary changes made in the Jamabandi Register and the local periodic Jamabandi. one month after the date of service.8 of Part–I Assamese NO. provided that the Court or officer dealing therewith may. He will fix a day for hearing. the Sub-Deputy Collector should. 5 (English) form No. He must record the fact of his having done so as regards (a) on the date on which the application for mutation first comes before him and as to (b) on the date on which the case is taken up after the provisions of section 52 and 56 have been compiled with. will hear and record necessary evidence. Part I form No. (5) A mutation case taken up on application for disposal in office should ordinarily be dismissed or struck off with the default of the applicant for mutation. Cases dismissed or struck off as above may be revived on a duly stamped application for revival filed within one month of the order of dismissal. (3) The notices mentioned above should be in form 28 [Assam Schedule XVII. This duty is of the greatest importance and MUST ON NO ACCOUNT be omitted or left to a subordinate ministerial officer. he will proceed to enquire into the case. order. will record his decision and will pass a final order for mutation (if mutation be ordered) in form No. and — (a) see that the transfers attested in the field by him or other officer duly empowered are brought on to the local periodic Jamabandi and the Jamabandi Register . order the transfer of entire dags (not parts of dags) from one patta to another. all undisputed mutations left undisposed of by him during the previous field season. During the Summer recess. when he receives the Supervisor Kanungo’s or recorder’s weekly abstract diaries. the Sub-Deputy Collector will forward the diaries to the Deputy Commissioner or the Sub-divisional Officer for information or orders together with his remarks. In effecting partition. even during the recess when practicable. It will be the duty of the Sub-Deputy Collector to arrange. should be treated as a contested case and disposed of by the Sub-Deputy Collector in the manner indicated in Rule 211(2). 218. after the completion of settlement work. or else give them priority in the ensuing field season. (2) If any objection is filed against an order of field mutation passed by a Maouzadar. dispose of field mutation and uncontested partition cases by the ordinary field mutation procedure when he goes to the village. will examine each of them and pass such orders as may be necessary. (1) A Mouzadar who has been duly empowered in this behalf will also. when there is no dispute. These diaries should be very carefully examined by the Sub-Deputy Collector. the Sub-Deputy Collector will. examine the recorders’ field Chithas. the Sub-Deputy Collector should make occasional visits to such unsurveyed areas. Supervisor Kanungo’s and recorder’s abstract diaries. under the rules for the gradual survey of any unsurveyed areas which his Circle may include. (b) issue notices and proclamations in all disputed cases left over by him for disposal in office and proceed as laid down in rule 215. Mutation work in office 217. Whenever necessary. with the consent in writing of the parties concerned. Field mutation by Mauzadar 216. Applications for mutations in the cases dismissed or struck off for default and not revived should be sent to the recorders concerned after a month from the date of dismissal with orders for noting the mutations in column 8 of the Chitha for disposal by the SubDeputy Collector after local verification under section 53-A of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation. When he finds that 76 . For this purpose and for the purpose of seeing whether there is any concealed cultivation. Survey of unsurveyed areas. the Mouzadar will have no power to revise his own order.ficient cause for the default. as they are the only means by which he can acquaint himself with the state of work in lots not recently visited by him. he can. 219. The Sub-Deputy Collector. and (c) dispose of in the field. and the petition of objection. if filed within three years of the order. the work of any lot is seriously in arrears, he should depute another recorder to assist, reporting his action to the Deputy Commissioner or the Sub-divisional Officer. If the arrears are due to the fault of the lot recorder, the latter will be fined and the recorder on deputation may be recommended reward, if found deserving. The amount of the fine and reward proposed by the Sub Deputy Collector must be submitted for sanction to the Deputy Commissioner or the Subdivisional Officer. Transfer of instrument. Inspection of Mauza Account and Miscellaneous enquires. Annual return. 220. The Sub-Deputy Collector will control the Supervisor Kanungos in their duty of maintaining supplies of instruments. On receipt of the Supervisor Kanungo’s abstract ledger account under rule 176, with list of unserviceable instruments to be replaced and new instruments to be provided; he will examine the instruments and if they are found unserviceable, sanction their removal from the account. Instruments which can be repaired should be returned to the Registrar Kanungo. The Sub-Deputy Collector is expected to examine a recorder’s instruments once a year when he visits the lot and when an instrument has been rendered unserviceable by lack of care in use, he may require the recorder to pay up the cost of a new one. He will forward the sanctioned requirements for new instruments to the Registrar Kanungo. Should he transfer any instruments from one Supervisor Kanungo’s sub - circle to another, he should at once report the fact to the Registrar Kanungo for record in his instrument registers. 221. The Sub-Deputy Collector will make any enquiry relating to revenue matter which is made over to him by the Deputy Commissioner or the Subdivisional Officer. 222. In the 1st week of October, the Sub-Deputy Collector in charge of a Circle should submit to the Deputy Commissioner, with a copy to the Subdivisional Officer, a brief note showing for the twelve months ending 30th September, — (1) the total number of days in charge with the number of days spent on tour, with details as to how many were spent in each mauza or Pargana and how many nights halted elsewhere than at head quarters ; (2) the number of recorders and villages in his circle ; (3) the number of recorders whose work he has inspected and the villages visited ; (4) the number and length of check lines run with the number or Katans and offsets. Independent checklines and lines run over other officers’ work should be shown separately ; (5) the number and character of errors found, the number of lines in which they were found and the number of cases in which the recorders were ordered to resurvey ; 77 (6) the number of Chitha entries tested and the number that they were found incorrect; (7) the number of survey marks inspected; (8) the number of villages the Jamabandi of which were read out in the village; (9) the number of mutation and partition cases effected-on the spot; (10) the number of mutation cases done in office; (11) particulars of any new survey carried out in unsurveyed areas, showing in acres the total unsurveyed areas in the circle, the area surveyed and mapped, the area passed and the amount of rewards paid during the year; (12) the area in acres of concealed cultivation discovered, if any; (13) the character of each Kanungo’s work during the season; (14) the names of specially good recorders and the nature of their work; (15) the names of incompetent or otherwise useless recorders and the nature of their work; (16) the number of resident and non-resident recorders, the number of recorders exempted by special orders from becoming resident up-to-date, the number who have become resident or were exempted during the year; With this note should be sent a rough trace map on the scale of 1/ / = 4 miles, showing the places at which the Sub-Deputy Collector halted when on tours during the preceding year. The Deputy Commissioner will forward this note and map to the Director of Land Records, stating his opinion as to the character and efficiency of the work done. Circle Registers 223. The Circle Sub-Deputy Collector will keep the following registers and files :— (1) Register of application for mutation. (2) Register of application for waste lands under Section I of the Settlement Rules framed under the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation. (3) Register of miscellaneous petitions. (4) Diary Register. (5) Cash Book. (6) Files relating to correspondence. (7) Orders and instruction files. 78 (8) Inspection Book. (9) Counterfoil receipt books. (10) Acquittance Roll. (11) Dak Book. (12) Court fee Register. (13) Register of relinquishment petition. (14) Conversion Register. (15) Encroachment case register. (16) Stock and furniture register. (17) Stationery articles register. (18) Forms register. (19) Sub-Deputy Collector’s daily Diary book. This Dairy book will contain all the particulars of work attended by him. (20) Attendance register of office staff. (21) Attendance register of field staff during the recess. (22) Weekly attendance register of field staff, i.e., recorders and Supervisor Kanungos. (23) Log books for each lot and each Sub-Circle. The log books may be maintained for all the Supervisor Kanungos and recorders of the Circle in one big manuscript book allotting a number of pages for each Supervisor Kanungo and recorder showing an index of pages so allotted on a fly page of the book. PART IV — INSPECTIONS 224. The Deputy Commissioner and the Sub-divisional Officer will make frequent inspections of the work of each Circle Officer in the district or subdivision. Copies of all memos recorded by the Deputy Commissioner or Subdivisional Officer in the course of such inspection will be forwarded to the Commissioner, and the Commissioner will forward to the Director of Lands Records extracts from them of such portions as related to the work of maintaining the land records. The main branches of this work are summarised in rule 222 above. The inspection memos themselves will be recorded in an inspection book to be kept in the Circle Office and will be open to the perusal of all inspecting officers. They will show the steps which have been taken to remedy the defects which have been discovered. A list of the principal points required in a land records inspection will be found in Appendix A. 79 Deputy Commissioner and Subdivisional Officer. The Deputy Commissioner or the Subdivisional Officer will see that the copies of inspection notes are returned to the Director of Land Records within one month of the date of the inspection with note on the margin showing the action taken thereon.Director of Land Records and his Assistant. The Director is responsible for seeing that the work is carried out in accordance with the rules as laid down in this manual and that the staff is in a state of efficiency. Revenue Department. He will be directly responsible to the Director of Land Records for his work. The Director of Land Records will inspect the work of maintaining the land records through-out the State. When the Director of Land Records has recorded in an inspection memo that there has been a failure on the part of the staff to understand or carry out the rules. The Deputy Commissioner or the Subdivisional Officer will forward copies of those memos to the Commissioner and the Director of Land Records noting thereon what action has been taken to remedy the defects which have been discovered. He will record inspection memos and forward copies of the same to the Director of Land Records. In addition to this. The work of land records will also be inspected by an Officer specially appointed under the designation of Assistant to the Director of Land Records. Deputy Commissioner or the Subdivisional Officer. Sub-Deputy Collector and other Officers as may be required. 225. The Director of Land Records will record inspection memos and will forward copy of each memo to the Secretary. the Deputy Commissioner or the Subdivisional Officer in the case of a subdivision will take prompt action to remedy the defects on the lines indicated by the Director of Land Records. 80 . Commissioner. Deputy Commissioner and Subdivisional Officer in case of a subdivision. The main function of this Officer will be to see that the land records staff including Circle Officers are carrying on their duties in accordance with the provisions of the Assam Land Records Manual and maintaining the records up-to-date. the Officer will also inspect the office of the Registrar Kanungo at least once in every two years. 10. Whether particulars of the new fields are entered in the chitha (rule 83). Whether the Sub-Deputy Collector’s visits to the village and any instructions which he gives to the recorders are noted in a blank page in the chitha (rule 206). and attention should be directed to ascertain the points noted below :1. Examine the register of relinquished fields (rule 21). Whether the Registrar Kanungo has dated and signed every mutation correction in the Chitha [rule 183 (ii)]. what action has been taken to dispose of them (rule 217).APPENDIX A List of the principal points required in a Land Records inspection. 12. 17 to 20 and also to matters of general discipline). Check some page totals in the Chitha and compare the grand totals of the different classes of land at the end of the chitha with the corresponding figures in the settlement abstract (rule 96) and the abstract area register ( rule 112). if so. 3. 10. 9. Whether the faired chitha has been properly compared and certified ( rule 113). and the list of faut. 2. 6. 7. 5. Whether there are long pending mutation entries in the chitha and. Whether inspection of crops during the recorder’s spring tour (rule 84) and winter tour (rule 107) has been duly carried out and crop entries made in the chitha. 4. ferar and Jotrahin fields (rule 23) and see whether they have been sufficiently verified by the 81 . IN THE OFFICE The inspection should ordinarily commence with the field chitha and the map. 11. Unless there are grounds for a detailed inspection. Whether a list of the istafa dags (rule 80) and of the new fields ( rule 83) is kept in a blank page of the Chitha. the Deputy Commissioners might ordinarily confine themselves to subjects in questions 9. ( It should be understood that these points are intended to form only a general guide to an Inspecting Officer who should rather make the Land Records Manual* the basis of his inspection than rely upon this list and it will be his duty to ascertain and enquire specially into such other points not included in this list as in each particular locality seem to require investigation. Whether the name of the unregistered dakhalkar has been entered and dated and signed by the recorder (rules 58 and 82). Check some mutation corrections in the chitha and (if available) in the Jamabandi Register (rules 72 and 100). Whether the name in column 8 of the chitha has been transferred to column 7 after sanction of mutation (Rule 58). 8. 16. 18. 80. has been sufficient (rules 201-210). 43. 20. faut. 82 . 14. 158 and 208).recorder. ferar ad jotrahin dags have been dealt with according to rule 43 and whether the necessary corrections have been made in the chitha and the Jamabandi (rules 58. (After a short experience you should be able to guess the approximate area of a field by looking at its size on the map. Pick up the dag on the map and make the recorder or the Supervisor Kanungo read out its area and class from the chitha. 157 and 208). the most important of which are indicated in the next three paragraphs. Such fields. When you have any doubt as to the accuracy of the area of the dag in question. Note whether the Sub-Deputy Collector’s work as well as his check and supervision of the recorder’s and the Supervisor Kanungo’s work. 87 and 88). when annual. 19. should be in pencil and when periodic in ink. Examine the Supervisor Kanungo’s registers and note whether they are properly kept up (rules 172-175). make the recorder or the Supervisor Kanungo find out the correct area by the talc square. 17. Note whether the Supervisor Kanungo’s check of field work by inspection (rule 154) and of office work (rules 160-171) and the amount of check lines run by him (rule 149) have been sufficient and whether record of the check lines run in maintained in the recorder’s note book (rule 56) and the Supervisor Kanungo’s field book (rule 153). Pay attention chiefly to the new or post resettlement ( or post . See whether the istafa. 13. 15. The inspecting Officer should therefore endeavour to find out whether these officers realize their responsibilities and properly perform their duties. The correct classification of the field can be ascertained from the class book and the class map which remain with the recorder). The quality and the quantity of the recorder’s work depend mainly on the supervision exercised by the Kanungo and the Sub-Deputy Collector. which appear on the map. Examine the list of fields of which the assessment to be altered or on which additional assessment is to be imposed on account of their conversion to non-agricultural use and see whether they have been verified by the Supervisor Kanungo and the Sub-Deputy Collector (rules 23. Check the area calculation and the land classification of the fields referred to in the preceding paragraph and see whether they are correctly entered in the chitha. the Supervisor Kanungo and the Sub-Deputy Collector (rule 21. 12 A.cadastral) fields. 157. Go through the recorder’s Register of Survey marks and see whether the recorder (rule 33 ) or the Supervisor Kanungo (rule 159) has noted his visits against each marks and whether the entries in the register are supported by entries in his diary. specially those which are marked in the chitha or in the diary as already verified by the recorder or the supervisor kanungo. Encroachments on the edges of unoccupied waste land maybe ascertained by measurements from the boundaries of the cultivated fields by means of a 20 link tar. Go through the previous inspection notes recorded in the Supervisor Kanungo’s inspection book and see whether due attention has been paid to the orders contained therein and whether the mistakes and irregularities pointed out at previous inspections have been rectified. GENERAL 26. and verify on the ground whether the alleged inspection has been really made. 23.21. travelling allowance and reward regularly. or make some one read out. (c) his fitness to continue in his work with reference to his age. (b) Check lines over the Supervisor Kanungo’s lines. the names of all the pattadars of the village from the jamabandi. ferar and jotrahin dags on the ground. To find out whether mutation work is kept up to date or not. read out. (c) By inspection as indicated in rule 154. 24. 83 . (b) whether the recorder is resident or not . 25. Check some istafa. particular attention being paid to the entries which appear to have been already attested by the Supervisor Kanungo or the Sub-Deputy Collector. IN THE FIELD 22. (e) whether the recorders get their pay. (d) recommendation with reference to the quality of his work. faut. in the presence of the Gaonbura or Panchayat and some villagers and ask them whether the people are alive or have transferred any of the land included in their pattas. Field work should be tested by : (a) Independent check lines. In inspecting sarkari dags and survey mark ascertain from his diary which dag or mark had been inspected by the recorder or the Supervisor Kanungo. The points to be attended to here are :(a) the neat or untidy condition of the maps and the registers generally . Ferar and Jotrahin List 7.APPENDIX B 1. Kanungo’s Annual Return of Survey Marks 9. Register of Survey Marks 8. STANDARDISED FORMS Serial No. Annual statement of mutations 16. Jamabandi for Unsurveyed Villages 5. Jamabandi for Surveyed Villages 4. Description of forms (1) 1. Recorder’s Weekly Abstract Diary 15. Area Statement II 84 Remark (3) . Area statement I 17.Bengali). Kanungo’s Weekly Abstract Diary 14. Settlement Abstract 12. (2) Chitha for Surveyed Villages ( Revised) 2. Area Abstract ( Revised) 10. (a) Crop Abstract (Revised ) Part I (b) Crop Abstract (Revised ) Part II 11.Assamese and XXXVIII . Chitha for Unsurveyed Villages 3. Kanungo’s or Recorder’s Diary 13. (Schedules XXXVII . Faut. Register of Relinquishments 6. Periodic Khiraj Patta (Settlement Officer’s) 19 A. Periodic Khiraj Patta (Jainita Parganas) [Deputy Commissioner] (Obsolete). (Cancelled) 26. 21. Periodic Khiraj Patta ( Jaintia Parganas) [Settlement Officer] ( Obsolete). Application to resign land 27. Area Statement III 19. 20. Recorders’ acquittance roll 29. Abstract Diary of Sub-Deputy Collectors 30. Nisf-Khiraj Patta 22. Annual Khiraj Patta 20A. Irrigation Abstract 85 . Register or Trigonometrical Pillars 28. Kabuliyat 19C. Register of demarcation advances (Obsolete) 25. Periodic Khiraj Patta (Deputy Commissioner’s) 19 B. Short lease for town lands 24. 19 D.18. Annual Khiraj Patta (Lakhimpur) [Deputy Commissioner] (Obsolete). Periodic lease for town lands 23. 4 Total 5 6 7 Special 8 9 Total FORM C.86 Year 1 Relinquished retaken 3 New at supplementary settlement. [Same as Standardised Form No. Annual Khiraj newly added during the year Periodic Add.— Register of cultivated area.— Kanungo’s Register of Assessed Area 14 Grants II-FORMS NOT STANDARDISED 15 Special tenures APPENDIX B 16 Total settled area .9 for recorders]. — Register of cropped area. 2 New at regular settlement Total Khiraj of regular settlement. [Same as Standardised Form No. 10 for recorders] FORM B. Khiraj of supplement settlement 10 Grand total Khiraj 11 Name of mouza or pargana — 12 Nisf-khiraj Name of Village— 13 Lakhiraj FORM A. — (a) Kunungo’s sub-circle in the case of the account maintained by the Registrar Kanungo. Number of Recorder’s lot (b) 1 Sight-vanes APPENDIX B Contd.— Instrument Ledger Account Hard pencils 15 Rubbers 16 Colour saucers 17 18 Carmines cakes NOTE . (b) Will be omitted in the registrar kanungo’s account. Brushes 19 20 Signature of recorde and remarks . (c) Name of supervisor kanungo in the registrar kanungo’s account. A few pages will be allotted to each recorder’s lot by the supervisor kanungo and to each supervisor kanungo by the registrar kanungo.87 2 Name of recorder (c) 3 Chains 4 Pins 5 Tapes 6 Plane-table with stand 7 8 Compasses 9 Optical squares 10 Cross 11 Cellulose squares 12 Cardboard scales 13 14 Offest slips Name of mauza or pargana (a) FORM D. Number of Villages Total number of entries tested FORM F.— Kanungo’s Annual Work Return for the year Number of entries found Chitha testing 13 Correct APPENDIX B— contd 14 Incorrect . 3 Total Unsurveyed In which chitha tested Surveyed Area taken up during regular and supplementary settlement Number of recorders Length of partal per square mile of area in column 10. the number of entries tested in the field and in office should be shown separetely.88 1 In which map or Chitha tested 2 4 Total 5 Whose maps tested 6 Whose chitha tested 7 Number 8 9 Total length Part lines 10 Surveyed Villages 11 12 In columns 12 and 15. Number of entries found Chitha testing Correct Area of concealed cultivation discovered In unsurveyed villages Unsurvey Villages Incorrect APPENDIX B Number of days spent on tour. (a) of which night spent at Headquarter. the number of entries tested in the field and in office should be shown separetely.89 15 17 In surveyed villages 18 19 Number survey marks inspected 20 21 Number of petitions or cases of which enquiries have been disposed of. FORM F. .— Kanungo’s Annual Work Return for the year 23 Number of Sarkhri dags inspected including reserves dags. 16 Total Number of entries tested. 22 In columns 12 and 15. (b) of which night spent away from Headquarters. 1 2 Number sold Number of issued free 4 5 6 7 90 8 9 Remarks Signature of recipient Balance after each day’s issues Date of issue 3 Number of copies received or in stock on 1st October Sheet Number (when there are more sheets than one in a village).— Map Issue Register MAUZA PARGANNA 10 . Name of village Printed number of village APPENDIX B— contd. FORM G. 7 Note of any practical survey work effected.— Abstract of exclusions to be made as faut ferar or jotrahin in the regular settlement of the year . FORM I. Character of qualifications Date of entry on Register.2 3 Supervisor Kanungo Sub-Deputy Collector Orders Area to be excluded as faut ferar Annual 4 Date of qualifying in Survey 5 6 91 5 6 7 8 9 10 Area to be excluded as faut ferar Remarks Deputy Commissioner’s initials. 4 Periodic 3 Annual 2 Date of birth Residence Name and father’s name of candidate Caste (Scheduled Tribe.— Register of certificated candidates for the post of Recorder 8 9 10 FORM J. Scheduled Castes and other) 1 Periodic Name of village 1 Name of recorder and lot Name of mauza or pargana APPENDIX B— contd. Year in which non-agricultural use was discovered. List of fields liable to altered or additional assessment under the rules framed under the Assam Land Revenue Reassessment Act.— Name of village Name of mauza APPENDIX B— contd. 8 . Number of dag 1 Number of patta and description of tenure FORM K. Sub-Deputy Collectors note and recommendation regarding assessment Nature of non-agricultural use in detail.2 3 4 5 92 6 7 Deputy Commissioner’s orders. Father’s name and address of actual occupant (Dakhalkar) whose name has not been mutated.93 Classification of land 2 Dag No. . 1 3 Area 4 Type of patta and No. Name. Father’s name and address of sub-tenants. 10 Type of tenancy/Khatian No. 5 Revenue 6 7 8 District____________ REVISED CHITHA FORM 9 Village / town _____________ mauza____________circle__________ Land Revenue Local Rate Name. and rate of rent etc. Father’s name and address of pattadars Name. Father’s name and address of Tenant/Adhiar. 11 Name. 94 Name of the crop Area 17 Area sown more than once. 30 Name and number of fruit trees 31 Remarks . Nature of land use Area Source of irrigation 27 28 Cropped Area Name of the crop Area 29 Area sown more than once.13 12 Uncropped Area Nature of land use 14 15 16 Cropped Area Source of irrigation 1st year Area. 18 19 Uncropped Area 20 21 22 Cropped Area 2nd year 23 District ___________ 24 25 Uncropped Area 3rd year 26 circle ____________ REVISED CHITHA FORM Village/town_____________ mauza Nature of land use Area Source of irrigation Name of the crop Area Area sown more than once. REV I SED A REA A B ST RA CT FORM 95 . Total of columns 2 to 10. 96 1 3 Barren and unculturable land 4 Land put to non-agricultural uses. Culturable waste Current fallow Other fallow Net area sown Area sown more than once Total area sown Total settled land i. 6 7 Settled land 8 9 10 11 12 District ___________ Year_________ 13 14 REVISED AREA ABSTRACT FORM 15 16 Village__________________ mauza ____________ circle ____________ Land under miscellancovs tree crops and groves not shown in area sown. 17 18 Unsettled land Permanent pastures and other grazing lands. 5 Permanged pasture and other grazing land. Forest Barren and unculturable waste Land out to non-agricultural uses.e.Forest 2 Page No. Land under miscllaneous tree crops and groves not shown in area sown 19 Culturable waste 20 Current fallow 21 Other fallow . Forest Columns 2-14 Barren and unculturable land Columns 3-15 Land put to non-agricultural uses. Columns 5 to 17. Columns 11-23 38 Total area sown. Culturabel waste. Columns 4-16 Permanent pastures and other grazing lands. Columns 10-22 37 Area sown more than once.e. 39 Total Geographical 1 area columns 13-27 40 Remarks . Land under miscellaneous crops and groves not shown inareasown Column 6 to 18. Columns 12-24. Total of columns 14 to 22 or Total of columns 25 and 26. Columns 7 to 19. Current fallow Columns 8-20 Other fallow Columns 9-21 Net area sown.97 Area sown more than once 23 Net area sown 22 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 District ___________ Year_________ 33 34 35 36 Total settled and unsettledland REVISED AREA ABSTRACT FORM Village/town_____________ Mauza ____________ Circle ____________ Total unsettled land Unsettled land Total area sown Reserve sarkari Ordinary Sarkari Total i. 21 Unirrigated . 98 1 Ahu (Autumn Rice) 3 Unirrigated 4 Irrigated Maize. Lemon). 19 Unirrigated 20 Irrigated Betel leaf.Irrigated 2 Page No. 17 Unirrigated 18 Irrigated Cashewnuts. Pine apple Unirrigated Irrigated Citrus fruits (Orange. 5 Unirrigated 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 District ___________ 13 14 15 Village_____________ Mauza ____________ Circle ____________ Mango 16 REVISED CROP ABSTRACT PART-I (SPRING TOUR) FORM-Contd. Unirrigated Irrigated Arecanuts. Irrigated. Unirrigated Irrigated Unirrigated Irrigated Jack fruit Unirrigated Irrigated Coconuts. . Jute.... Unirrigated Irrigated Name. 43 Unirrigated 44 Irrigated Name.. Irrigated Unirrigated Irrigated Unirrigated Irrigated Unirrigated Irrigated Unirrigated Irrigated Fodder crop. 45 Unirrigated 46 47 Irrigated Unirrigated Total area sown (for spring tour). 27 Unirrigated Vegetables. Mista Mustard Name. 41 REVISED CROP ABSTRACT PART-I (SPRING TOUR) FORM-Contd.Unirrigated 23 Irrigated 99 22 ... Unirrigated Irrigated Unirrigated 42 Irrigated Name.. Castor seed (Endi-muga). 48 Remarks . 24 Irrigated Sweet Potato 25 Unirrigated 26 Irrigated. 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 District ___________ 37 38 39 40 Village_____________ Mauza ____________ Circle ____________ Chillies. Unirrigated Irrigated Unirrigated Chheene. 16 REVISED CROP ABSTRACT. Irrigated Unirrigated Arhor. 18 Irrigated 19 Unirrigated . Irrigated. Irrigated Unirrigated Other cereals. Irrigated Unirrigated Grane Grain(Gran) Irrigated 17 Unirrigated Khesari.Irrigated 2 Page No. 100 1 Sali (Winter Rice). 3 Unirrigated 4 Irrigated Bao (Winter Rice) 5 Unirrigated Boro (Summer Rice) 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 District ___________ 13 14 15 Village_____________ Mauza ____________ Circle ____________ Wheat. PART-II (WINTER TOUR) FORM-Contd. 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 District ___________ 32 33 34 Village_____________ Mauza ____________ Circle ____________ Peas. 39 Unirrigated . 37 Unirrigated 38 Irrigated Chillies. PART-II (WINTER TOUR) FORM-Contd. Masur. Unirrigated Irrigated Unirrigated Irrigated Other pulses Unirrigated Irrigated Sugarcane Unirrigated Irrigated Potato Unirrigated Irrigated Unirrigated 36 Irrigated Other vegetables.Unirrigated 21 Irrigated 101 20 Moong 22 Irrigated Matikalai 23 Unirrigated 24 Irrigated. Onion 35 REVISED CROP ABSTRACT. Unirrigated 41 Irrigated 102 40 Ginger 42 Irrigated 43 Turmeric. Unirrigated 44 Irrigated. Other condiments and spices 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 District ___________ 52 53 54 55 Village_____________ Mauza ____________ Circle ____________ Tea. Til (sesame) (Seasome) Cotton REVISED CROP ABSTRACT. PART-II (WINTER TOUR) FORM-Contd. Unirrigated Irrigated Unirrigated Irrigated Unirrigated Irrigated Rape and mustard. Unirrigated Irrigated Lianseed. Unirrigated Irrigated Unirrigated 56 Irrigated Tobacco. 57 Unirrigated 58 Irrigated Miscellaneous Food crops.. 59 Unirrigated Unirrigated 61 Irrigated 103 60 Miscellaneous Non-Food crops. 62 Irrigated 63 Unirrigated Name .................... ( ) 64 Irrigated. 65 Unirrigated Name .................... ( ) 66 67 68 69 70 71 District ___________ 72 73 74 Village_____________ Mauza ____________ Circle ____________ Name .................... ( ) Total area sown (for Winter tour). Total area sown (for both spring and winter tours) REVISED CROP ABSTRACT. PART-II (WINTER TOUR) FORM. Irrigated Name .................... ( ) Unirrigated Irrigated Unirrigated Irrigated Unirrigated Irrigated Unirrigated Total 75 Area sown more than once. 76 Net Area sown. Col. (76)— Col. (77) 77 Remarks. 104 1 Government 2 Private Canals Year _________________ Due on ____________ 3 Total 4 Tanks 5 Tube wells 6 Other wells Wells 7 Other Sources Area Irrigated from 8 Net area Irrigated. 9 Gross Area irrigated. Details of area irrigated from differnt sources in the village of _____________________ Assam Schedule_____________ IRRIGATION ABSTRACT FORM. 10 Area irrigated more than once The Congress Coalition Ministry by their Regulation of 5th November 1939. declared that all persons whether immigrants or non-immigrants should be evicted from the Professional Grazing Reserves and Village Grazing Reserves. The Sidli and Bijni Duars Estates in Goalpara had a peculiar status of their own and were called ‘Acknowledged Estates’.. Nisf-kheraj lands paying half the revenue and Kheraj lands paying full revenue. 105 . In order to protect the tribals from being outsted from their Villages and also to prevent clashes between the immigrants and the local people “Line System.The land settlement policy in respect of agricultural lands in Assam had to be adopted according to the conditions prevailing from time to time. the circumstances changed from time to time and the policy regarding settlement had to be modified to suit the condition prevailing at particular times. From 1920 they began to pour in large numbers and encroach into the areas inhabited by the Plains Tribal people and clashes ensued. In the other Plains Districts which are known as Temporarily . special lease of land were issued for special cultivation. Besides tea. 205/58. The permanent Settlement was introduced in most of the areas in Goalpara District and Karimganj Subdivison of Cachar District. varieties of system in land settlement were evolved. the Hills Districts have their own system of land management.” with Colonisation Scheme was introduced.Settled Districts there are Lakheraj lands paying no revenue at all. there are periodic patta lands with heritable and transferable rights.EXTRACTS OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF ASSAM IN THE REVENUE (SETTLEMENT) DEPARTMENT The 25th September 1958 Resolution on Settlement of Agricultural Lands No. and annual patta lands without heritable and transferable rights. With the growth of population and the progress of land reclamation. Besides. Pending formation of a new Ministry. Fee Simple Grants were made with tea planters by the Government. Of the Kheraj lands. The following classes of immigrants were to get preference in settlement within the Colonisation Areas. The resolution also proposed to constitute “Prohibited Areas” to give protection to Tribal. From the beginning of the present Century immigrants from East Bengal began to come in search of lands. In order to encourage tea cultivation. Those Schemes attracted considerable criticisms and opposition which found expression in the session of the Assembly during which the life of the Ministry came to an end. Scheduled Castes and other Backward Classes of people. RSS. 2. In these circumstances. the Saadulla Ministry which succeeded it did not accept the Coalition Ministry’s Resolution and initiated the Development Schemes by resolution of 21st June 1940. the Governor abandoned the Development Schemes and reverted to the Colonisation Scheme. After the resignation of the Coalition Ministry. During the last Century vast tracts were lying waste in jungles. and large areas have been eroded by the high floods following the Great Earthquake.miles with villages where percentage of tribal population is more than 50. villages with more than 200 bighas of waste lands. (c) The Tribal classes were to be protected by constitution of Tribal Belts and Blocks in areas predominantly occupied by them.e. i. A Belt is constituted where the areas with tribal majority are continuous and stretch out for a long distance. and 30 bighas in the case of a larger family.(1) Those settlement-holders whose lands were eroded. If possible they should get settlement in the Reserve by deservation or get settlement in the Colonisation Areas. (b) Muslim immigrants from East Bengal who came before 1st January 1938 were to be treated as equally entitled to get settlement as the landless indigenous persons. particularly in the District of Lakhimpur and Sibsagar. To give effect to the clause as at (c). Premium was charged in the Colonisation Area at Rs. the Resolution of 15th January 1945 and the Resolution of 13th July 1945. (2) Those who purchased annual lands in closed villages.e. After the partition of India when East Bengal was included in Pakistan. The result has been that a considerable number of persons including the displaced persons started moving into the forest and grazing reserves and began cultivating the 106 .. The population has increased by natural growth as well as by influx of a large number of displaced persons mostly from East Bengal numbering about 5. viz. the Resolution of 24th August 1943. lays down the principles broadly as follows. i. If the continuity is broken by intervention of non-tribal areas.4 sq. Since then three more Resolutions were passed. there have been substantial change in the circumstances and conditions of the State. (a) Planned Settlement. (d) The grazing and other Reserves were to be maintained. a Chapter viz.e. The latest Resolution.00.000. Since the above Resolutions were passed. (3) Those who were for some years continuously in unauthorised occupation in Reserves. 5 per bigha. The great earthquake of 1950 has seriously changed the topography in the eastern part of the State. the policy as stated in (b) was modified by the Resolution of 20th February 1950 by stating that the Muslim from East Pakistan who had not acquired the right of Indian Citizenship in the Indian Union would not be entitled to get settlement of waste lands. the Resolution of 13th July 1945. then Blocks are formed. 3. Settlement was not to exceed 20 bighas per family of 5 members or less. Chapter X of the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation has been added and Tribal Belts and Blocks have been constituted covering an area of 5715... settlement to those from outside the village after keeping 30 per cent of the cultivable waste lands in the undeveloped villages. Large tracts of land have been rendered unfit for cultivation... i. Government of India have now advised to raise this percentage to 33. even then the area will not be sufficient to provide lands to all the indigenous landless people besides the 5.865 sq. hills. miles (approximately) including the Zamidary Forests. According to the International Standard. In the changed circumstances after Independence. but in view of threat of invasion by desert. it has been recognised all over India that land reforms and agrarian re-organisation are essential for the development of the country. (i) The abolition of Zamindars and Intermediaries This is recommended with a view to securing fixity of tenure and transfer of ownership to actual tillers. Professional Grazing Reserves and Village Grazing Grounds — 865 sq. approximately 5. If the professional Grazing Reserves and Village Grazing Grounds be all thrown open. but with the Autonomous Districts.365 acres of surplus tea lands were requisitioned from the Tea Gardens. the percentage of Reserved Forest comes to 12 (approximately) only. miles are covered by rivers. is only 23.000 sq. 46. The Constitution has also given autonomy to the Hills Districts where the administration of land within the Autonomous Districts has vested in the District Councils. This was followed by clashes between the encroachers and the graziers in the Professional Grazing Reserves and between the encroachers and the villagers in the Village Grazing Grounds. 4. at least 25 per cent of the area should be under Reserved Forest. 5. except the existing Forest Reserves.lands. 170 acres from Professional Grazing Reserves and Village Grazing Grounds. miles. marshy lands and sandy tracts.000 displaced persons from East Pakistan who are also landless.00. Besides.558 of whom about 15 per cent are without any land and about 52 per cent have holdings of less than 10 bighas.5 per cent only. But in order to meet the pressing need of the earthquake and flood affected people. miles. The total population according to 1951 census excluding North-East Frontier Agency and Autonomous Districts was 7.000 sq. If we confine ourselves to the Plains Districts alone. The State Government however has no hand in the administration of the land.00. The total area of Assam after deducting the areas covered by North-East Frontier Agency and the Autonomous Hills Districts. The Planning Commission have laid down the broad principles on land reforms and agrarian re-organisation in two groups. Total — 5. Government had to dereserve 16.754 acres from the Forests and 1.000 sq. and areas unfit for cultivation. (ii) Agrarian re-organisation The main aspect of the Agrarian Re-organisation are : 107 . miles. The areas covered by different Reserves are : Forest Reserves in the Plains Districts — 5.805. Out of this. the area of the Reserved Forests comes to 21. and in order to Implement the above.(a) Consolidation of holdings. such as sali paddy. 6. there is no security of tenure. (b) Land Management Practices. 1935. Consequently. Annual land can be converted into periodic on fulfilling the following conditions — (a) That the land has been demarcated and actually surveyed and is situated in a village which is traversed and surveyed and mapped and classed. Having considered the present conditions prevailing in Assam and the principles laid down by the Planning Commission. or of subletting. (i) The implementation of the Acts already in existence in respect of land reforms and agrarian reforms shall be taken up immediately. following legislations have been enacted since 1948: (i) The Assam Adhiars Protection and Regulation Act. being liable to cancellation on service of non-renewal notice. This gives a scope for unauthorised occupation. iv) The Assam Fixation of Ceilings on Land Holdings Act. (ii) The Assam State Acquisition of Zamindaries Act. (b) The land has been actually cultivated with some permanent crops. The patta are generally renewed annually on the basis of actual possession. 1951 — Act XVIII of 1951 as subsequently amended. there is no security of tenure. 1948 — Act XII of 1948 as subsequently amended. the owners cannot procure any loan against the securities of these annual lands. (c) Development of Co-operative Farming. (iii) The Assam (Temporarily. 5 per bigha is paid. (d) Development of Co-operative Village Management. and stepsshall be taken to pass legislations in respect of other reform measures. 108 . Government are pleased to lay down the land policy as stated below. In addition to the above a Bill for consolidation of land holdings and another Bill for acquisition of lands not covered by the Ceilings Act are under preparation. 1956-Act I of 1957 as amended by Act XVII of 1957. or of inheritance beyond the year of issue. (c) A premium at the rate of Rs.Settled Districts) Tenancy Act. This Government have accepted the above principles as laid down by the Planning Commission. as amended by the Act I of 1943 and Act XXVII of 1953. And the lands being non-transferable. (ii) The annual patta lands confer no right of transfers. The pattas. Deforestation is likely to affect rainfall and climate causing drought. it may be considered if any surplus area be available for dereservation and settlement for cultivation or for any public purpose. the lease shall be renewable from year to year during the subsistence of the security and for a period of five years there after in favour of the settlement-holder. To expedite conversion the applicant for conversion shall submit a declaration about the total area of land owned by him and the Sub-Deputy Collector may act on such declaration without further enquiry. even the existing area is not considered to be sufficient for the maintenance of the total number of buffaloes and cattle kept by the Professional Graziers. Government have decided that the premium may be paid in 5 equal annual instalments. it will be harmful for the best interest of the State and its people to reduce the total area of Forest Reserves any further. flood and soil erosion which will have harmful effect on agriculture and consequent production of food. (vi) It has appeared to Government that there has been a tendency for organised encroachment into the Forest and Grazing Reserves. The balance shall be realisable as arrears of land revenue and as a first charge on the land so converted.Orders have already been issued to convert all annual lands into periodic as expeditiously as possible wherever these conditions are fulfilled. After implementing this proposal. his heir and legal representative and assignee by operation of law. and to renew it automatically in those cases in which the land is pledged on mortgage to Government or to a State sponsored Co-operative. The Ceiling Act provides for a maximum of 150 bighas for each joint family. and the local Officers shall keep themselves sufficiently alert and evict the encroachers before they get themselves established or raise any crops. (v) In the matter of Village Grazing Grounds. Village Panchayats or other suitable Organisations of people in suitable areas of these Grazing Reserves. It is proposed to convert only so much of annual land as would not exceed a total of 150 bighas. The land shall be converted into periodic on payment of the first instalment. It will take time to create the habit of stall feeding of buffaloes and cattle by the Graziers. (iii) The area of Forest Reserves. The existing area therefore shall not be reduced except in exceptional circumstances. 109 . being short of the International Standard. Society against loan advanced for the purpose of removing rural indebtedness or establishment of Cottage Industries or providing loans to low income groups and other such beneficial purposes to the people. it is proposed to take up scientific fodder cultivation through Government Departments. Government decide to waive their right to cancel an annual lease. Such encroachment shall be dealt with firmly. no annual patta land shall be cancelled without previous approval of Government. Pending conversion to periodic lands. (iv) In the case of Professional Grazing Reserves. In all such cases. When this is not possible immediately. 110 . When settlement to individuals have to be given. river erosion or earthquake and whose lands were requisitioned or acquisitioned by Government for public purposes. Such occupants shall not be removed until alternative land can be provided. (x) Surplus waste lands of Tea Gardens which can be requistioned without affecting the Industry may be requisitioned for distribution in order of preference as stated in sub-paragraph (vii) of paragraph 6. At the State level there shall be one State Land Advisory Board to guide and render necessary assistance to the Field Management Committees. Government may reconstitute such Committees for expediting allotments. K. steps shall be taken to organise the cultivators field wise by formation of Farmers Co-operatives. Steps shall be taken to reclaim whatever area be available by means of irrigation drainage or by embankment or by any other means. of Assam. (c) Settlement holders who have been rendered landless by river erosion and who occupy Reserves with the permission of the Deputy Commissioners. (b) The landless cultivators and displaced persons. Revenue Department. the future settlement for agricultural purpose shall be made as far as possible with Co-operatives of Farmers. preference shall be given in the following order — (a) The Settlement-holders who have been rendered landless due to flood. This causes hardship to the landless and adversely affects food production. (ix) Gramdan Movement is gaining ground and there are more than 70 gramdan villages at present. the area should ordinarily be limited to 8 bighas to 12 bighas according to the fertility of the soil. to the Govt.C. Settlement of lands are now being made by the local officers on the advice of the Land Settlement Advisory Committees. (viii) In the matter of food production. In such cases. In giving settlement to individuals. and those Committee shall be assisted by agricultural and Co-operative experts.BARUA Secy.(vii) The total available surplus cultivable lands being insufficient to meet the demand of the agriculturists individually. It is the policy of the Government to help Gramdan Movement and render possible assistance. It has been found that on account of undue delay in coming to decisions by such Committees sometimes available cultivable lands remain unallotted for a long time. the Field Management Committees shall be formed in collaboration with Panchayats. A. the 6th March 1959.APPENDIX D GOVERNMENT OF ASSAM REVENUE (SETTLEMENT) DEPARTMENT SETTLEMENT BRANCH No. the Sub-Deputy Collector/Assistant Settlement Officer shall verify it and satisfy himself that the petition contains the following informations :— (i) Name of the Settlement holder. his father’s name and address. From — Shri K. 329/53. held by the settlement holder and by the other member of his family (family include joint family). In inviting a reference to para 6 of the Government Resolution of the 25th September. etc. Secretary to the Government of Assam To — All the Deputy Commissioners. and the Sub-Deputy Collector/Assistant Settlement Officer is satisfied from the reformations mentioned in para 2 above that the condition required by Rules 105 or 209 B of the Assam Land Records Manual is fulfilled.. detailed instructions are given below for the guidance of the local officers. (ii) Detailed description of the land applied for conversion and the crops raised during the previous year or whether the land is utilised as a homestead. Subdivisional Officers and Settlement Officers of the Plains Districts and Revenue and Settlement Officers. Immediately on receipt of a petition for conversion of annual lease into periodic. 1958 on Settlement of Agricultural land. maintenance of Reserves. A declaration by the petitioner that he does not hold more than 150 bighas in all shall be taken as sufficient without further enquiry. Goalpara and Karimganj. (iii) Total annual and periodic patta land including the area applied for conversion. 1958 on Settlement of Agricultural land.. dated 25th September. 205/58. For systematic and uniform implementation of the Policy with regard to conversion of annual land into periodic. he shall direct the 111 . non-renewal of annual patta. I am directed to say that Government desire quick implementation of the policy as laid down therein.S. SUBJECT —Instruction on the Government Resolution No. Every Circle Sub-Deputy Collector/ Assistant Settlement Officer shall maintain a separate register of petitions for conversion of annual leases into periodic. RSS. 3. 2. Barua. and shall take up separate proceedings in respect of each petition. Sir. Conversion of Annual Patta Land into Periodic. I. I. dated Shillong. 1. If the area land applied for conversion is within the competence of the SubDeputy Collector/Assistant Settlement Officer to convert into periodic and is located in a surveyed village.C. RSS. Settlement of waste land. for record. Wherever such renewal is considered undesirable for violation of any of the conditions in the lease or otherwise. Normally. annual lease once issued should be renewed from year to year. in the prescribed manner. The specially deputed Assistant shall receive the premium and shall issue a receipt to the person who pays it. the Deputy Commissioner or any other officer duly authorised in this behalf. if adduced. A copy of the order shall be submitted to the Deputy Commissioner or Subdivisional Officer as the case may be . Subdivisional Officer or Settlement Officer as the case may be. on Monday following the collection.000. Deputy Commissioner/Settlement Officer/ Subdivisional Officer shall submit to the Government quarterly reports on the progress of conversion of annual pattas into periodic in the proforma annexed herewith. by a fixed date why the lease should not be cancelled. he shall record reasons for the same. The amount of premium collected during a week shall be credited into the nearest treasury of the District or State Bank. 9. The latter shall pass necessary order and return the records to the Sub-Deputy Collector. Sub-divisional Officer/Settlement Officer to the applicant and in case where conversion has been allowed the Sub-Deputy Collector/Assistant Settlement Officer shall take action as directed in para 4 above. the Deputy Commissioner or any other competent officer finds no reason for cancellation of 112 . 10. should be recorded. 7. The grounds on which the cancellation is proposed should by clearly set forth in the notice. 4. The Assistant especially deputed in this behalf shall furnish a cash security of Rs. and shall be personally responsible for all cash and accounts. 8. II. 6. should call upon the settlement holder and the actual occupants to show cause. In cases of untraversed areas if the Sub-Deputy Collector/Assistant Settlement Officer is satisfied as to the fitness for conversion under rule 209 B. A hearing should be given to parties concerned and a summary of evidences. 1. 5. On the date so fixed the Sub-Deputy Collector shall communicate the order of the Deputy Commissioner.applicant to pay the premium due in respect of so much of the land as can be converted into periodic under-para 6 (ii) of the Government Resolution. with the request to return the records by a fixed date. Non-renewal of annual lease – 11. commencing from the 1st April of the following year. The Sub-Deputy Collector/Assistant Settlement Officer shall maintain clear accounts of all premia collected in his office. If the applicant pays at least one-fifth of the total premium due from him the Sub-Deputy Collector/Assistant Settlement Officer shall allow conversion of the annual lease into periodic and shall direct the applicant to pay the balance in 4 annual instalments. If after consideration of the evidences and the causes shown by the parties. Where the area to be converted exceeds 30 bighas the Sub-Deputy Collector/ Assistant Settlement Officer shall calculate the premium payable by the applicant and submit his records to the Deputy Commissioner. On receipt of the encroachment reports the Deputy Commissioner/ Subdivisional Officer should institute ejectment proceeding under Rule 18 of the Settlement Rules and take immediate action to evict the encroachers. Settlement holders who have been rendered landless due to erosion by rivers and have taken shelter in village Grazing Reserves and Professional Grazing Reserves as prior to 12th September. Government would view with great disfavour any delay in eviction of encroachers from the Professional Grazing Reserves. the owner must vacate their occupation in the reserves. But it in his opinion there appear some reasons for cancellation of the lease. But actual cancellation of the patta shall not be effected before Government orders are obtained. he shall pass necessary orders. The Sub-Deputy Collector/ Assistant Settlement Officer should ensure that such reports reach the Deputy Commissioner / Sub-divisional officer within one week of the date of receipt. The Deputy Commissioner should take serious notice of any failure on the part of land records staff to report encroachment within one month of the first unauthorised occupation of the reserves. the person so affected may shift to some reserve. The lot mandal must invariably. 113 . once in every two months. the family may be allowed to shift temporarily into a Reserve and may stay there until alternative land is found out. This should be construed as allowing encroachments into the Reserves on account of erosion of some areas of their holding . III. Provision of the rules for confiscation of properties and imposition of daily fines should be freely used. 14. are not eroded. Such encroachments under the aforesaid circumstances may be presumed to be occupation with permission of the Deputy Commissioner. either as owner or as tenant then they should not be allowed accommodation in any Reserve. It must be clearly understood that where such homestead will again become abitable after the flood recedes. Forest Reserves and Village and Professional Grazing Reserves – 12. If the homestead is inundated or eroded by a sudden flood. And encroachment detected in any of these reserves should be forth with reported to the Circle Sub-Deputy Collector/Assistant Settlement Officer. 1958 with permission of the Deputy Commissioner or Subdivisional Officer. inspect each Village and Grazing Reserves and Professional Grazing Reserves within his charge. he should submit his proceedings. along with his reports to the Government for consideration. but immediately after removal to the reserve they must inform the Circle SubDeputy Collector or the Deputy Commissioner or Subdivisional Officer. Village Grazing Reserve and Forest Reserves. In case of lands required for any public purpose the show cause notice may be dispensed with and the non renewal notice maybe straightway issued at least 3 months before the date of expiry of the lease. Severe disciplinary action should be taken against the person or persons who intentionally or negligently cause delay. No patta should be cancelled without prior approval of the Government. If the homestead of a family is eroded and no suitable land left for shifting. 13. should not be evicted from such Professional Grazing Reserves/ Village Grazing Reserves until they are provided with alternative lands elsewhere. If their homesteads. or they possess high land suitable for homestead.the lease. Until alternative land is found. In compact blocks of 50 bighas or more of waste land. 1959 for information. no settlement with any individual should be allowed without prior approval of the Government. 17. The Deputy Commissioners/ Subdivisional Officers should prepare Mauzawise list of landless cultivators. Settlement of Waste Land — 15. 16. Subdivisional Officer and Sub-Deputy Collectors and with the help of the Panchayats. This may be done with reference to the waste land petitions pending with the Deputy Commissioners. The report should contain a brief description of the land with location. In the matter of settlement of waste land. The Deputy Commissioner and Subdivisional Officer in consultation with the garden authorities. The landless cultivators of the neighbouring Mouzas may be allowed to join such co-operative societies or form similar co-operative societies of their mauzas. Settlement of such blocks should be ordinarily allowed to co-operative farming societies of actual landless cultivators. Government propose to examine by the experts of the Flood Control Department the feasibility of reclamation of low lying swampy areas which are at present uncultivable. The Deputy Commissioners and the Subdivisional Officers should submit to the Government as early as possible a list of all such land other than the registered fisheries within their subdivisions. 114 . A list of such tea garden grants with the area of available waste land should be submitted to the Government by 31st March. the area and the class of such waste land should be noted in appropriate columns of the register. 19. 18. If the landless cultivator mentioned above comply with this direction of the Deputy Commissioner the surplus tea garden land should be requisitioned and the possession of it should be delivered to the society. Settlement of waste land shall be made with individual cultivator in order of preference as laid down in paragraph 6 (vii) of the Government Resolution. A register of such tea garden waste land should be maintained. no family should be allowed to occupy more than 3 bighas. landless displaced cultivators from Pakistan shall have equal claim with the local landless agriculturist. Proceedings for acquisition of the land should be started after delivery of possession to the Society and on realisation of the acquisition cost. The names of the tea estates where such waste land is available. In mauzas where surplus tea garden waste land is available the listed landless cultivators of the Mauza should be asked to form farmers co-operative societies and credit the cost of compensation for requisition and acquisition of the surplus tea garden land only one year’s compensation for requisition should be charged. IV. should make a correct estimate of the actual surplus waste land available for the ordinary cultivation in the Tea garden grants. Their cases should also be considered if sufficient land is available. By Order. 3. Revenue (Reforms) Department. dated Shillong. Yours faithfully. K.BARUA. Memo. Director of Land Records. Under-Secretary. Revenue( Land Revenue) Department.. No. the 6th March. 115 . Secretary to the Government of Assam. Commissioner of Plains Division 2. to the Government of Assam. 329/53A. Sarkar.C. RSS. Assam.I am to request you to follow the instructions as indicated above and difficulty if experienced in course of implementation of the instruction and the policy you may please refer to Government for clarification. 4. S. etc. o— copy to 1. supervisor kanungos 135 Acquittance rolls .check of recorder’s Charge making over .orders for issue of 105 Annual return of work by kanungos 177 Annual return of survey instruments 176 Annual return of Sub-Deputy Collector 222 Annulments .calcualation of Books .diary. distribution by registrar kanungo Boundary marks . supervisor kanungos Abstract diaries.186 Allowances . recorders leave of.recorders 29 Weekly diary .159 43 77 17.record of 24 Appointment-recorders 1 registrar kanungo 180 supervisor kanungo 125 Areasunsurveyed disappearance of 162 verification and classification of 87 Assessmentcheck of the calcuation of 114 of new land 19 settlement statement 171 Assessment rolls . recorders 219 Weekly diary .recorders making over .the striking off of land from the 20 Attendence .check of Candidates . supervisor kanungos. supervior kanungo.of recorders on mauzadars 30 Page 15 15 59 90 16 60 78 73 58 22 79 46 68 68 91 13 1 69 56 65 42 54 10 67 11 16 B Bigha rates .supervisor kanungos Checkof field work.delay of 200 Additions procedure in registering exclusions and .inspection of 92 194 33. by inspection general character of 162 195 65 77 13 9(1) 142 7 6 61 37 133 20 59 154 148 64 62 116 .INDEX Rule 27 27 132 A Absence from duty.of periodic field 45 Amount of .register of Certificatesfor extension survey Survey School Chains .field 129 Alteration .touring required from Sub-Deputy Collectors 203 Annual and periodic pattas .65 C Calculation of new assessment . 3.56 95 17.columns 7.208. ferar and jotrahin lists of map record of of measurement of mutations of recorder’s chain of recorder’s measuring standard of recorder’s work by Sub-Deputy Collector of relinquishments of totalling Chitha columns.36 Page 63 62 67 61 61 80 64 66 58 58 (iv) & (v) 61 58 (1) 59 156 113 69 16.check by supervisor kanungo Control and check of recess work Correction of chitha entries Courtchanges ordered by the transfer to recorder’s papers of mutations ordered in Crop failures and mixed crops Crop entries .operations of Comparisons .16. tenants Columns 15.84 61 61 32 32 197 77 112 188 Rule D Dakhalkars - 117 50 74 Page .21.11.119 61 111 107 165 160 156 28 29 32 28 29 64 53 38 9 44 9. preparing old field surveyed areas totalling and comparison of unsurveyed areas Classification of house garden areas Class of pattas .Rule of recess work comparison by supervisor kanungo of calculation of new assessments of faut.63 Rule 153 149 170 142 143 206 157 164 65 66 65 64.4 Colummn 8 . 84 45 73 34 32.new and re-included Cold weather tour.81.22 crop entries Columns 27 & 28 land class Columns 1 unsettled land correction of new draft.11 of chitha Cropson different parts of the same field failiures and mixed Crop statementof registrar kanungo recorder’s supplementary settlement abstracts and pattas Custody of records by registrar Kanungo Page 160 165 162 158. 1.55 33 49 47 66 65 64 101 187 61(xi) (xii) 61.2. land when 198.108 61 78.on different parts of the same field Disapperance of unsurveyed areas Disbursement of pay of supervisor kanungos Discrepancies in check line not due to error Disposal of old maps Disputed cased of mutation Distribution of pattas Double cropped .recorders’ weekly abstract supervisor kanungos’ 194 139 29 Rule 205 135 29 135 77 16 60 Page 79 60 16 60 DiariesSub-Deputy Collector’s Supervisor Kanungos abstract Different crops .223 219 61 114 131 152 191 212 78.entry of name of in cloumn 5 of chitha unregistered. distribution by registrar Kanungo entries to be made in recorder’s.115 181 202 204 140 4. and note book of recorders 41 28 78 17 61 of Sub-Deputy Collectors of supervisor kanungos weekly abstract . by Sub-Deputy Collector 221 Entries to be made by supervisor Kanungo.miscellaneous revenue. in recorder diary and note book 139 correction of chitha.8.15.93 90 32 54 59 63 74 86 40. their entry. time of Delay of acquittance rolls Demarcations in Surma Valley Dhips .48 32 Duration of field work of supervisor Kanungos of tours of supervisor kanungos Duty absence from Dutiesof recorder registrar kanungos of Sub-Deputy Collectors generally of Sub-Deputy Collectors during recess of supervisor kanungo 147 145 62 61 27 15 5.54 70 73 79 60 E Enquires.kanungo’s 82 57 200 32 144 Diary Books. by supervisor kanungo 156 118 91 60 64 . alteration of tours and recesses 46 47 118 45 25 23 23 55 22 13 Fine automatic of recorders of absence in recess of Supervisor Kanungos Fluctuating villages 85 126 150 42 57 63 Formssee Appendix B standardised not standardised Appx. ferar and jotrahincheck of by Sub-Deputy Collector check of by Supervisor kanungo exclusion from chitha by recorder lists. by supervisor kanungo in check chaining discrepancies in check line not due to in mutation.40. for Sub-Deputy Collectors. numbering on map numbering of. preparation by recorder Fiel allowances mutation work undisputed. ferar and jotrahin fields action by SubDeputy Collector procedure of registrar kanungo Extension Survey certificates Rule Page 74 58. duration of. see above high land rice. work. 119 102 104 .121 81 64 36 12.82 39 28.55 129 58 211 147 44 85 62 22 Fieldsfaut. B Do. for supervisor kanungo work of recorders 207. ferar and jotrahin. ferar and jotrahin fields from chitha by recorder of faut.41 151 152 184 63 63 73 63 36 207.Entry of land classing in jamabandi name of dakhalkar Errors correction of. safeguard against assessing twice over new. in unsurveyed areas periodic.208 158 63 22. 208 186 13 81 73 7 F Faut. report of by registrar kanungo Exclusionof faut.81. 182 42 14 70 Jamabandientry of land classing in surveyed areas annual local periodic local periodic at disposal of mauzadar totalling and comparison of Unsurveyed areas 74 16 19 72 72 95 17. correction of register. correction of register.55 100 182 45 70 186 Jamabandi .159 64 17.Rule Page G Generalcharacter of check by supervisor kanungo responsibilities of supervisor kanungo duties of Sub-Deputy Collector 148 140 202 62 60 78 103 61(IV) 46 33 Immigrants .65 H Headquarters . by recorders House garden areas .59 47 154 33.122 39 9 10 38 38 44 9.land held by 98 44 Increase of staff -recorders supervisor kanungos information of raiyats Inking periodic fields on the map Inspectioncheck by supervisor kanungos of boundary marks 5 127 31.134 106 4 58 17.Classification of I Inspectionsby Deputy Commissioners and Subdivisional Officers by Director of Land Records and his Assistant 224 225 95 95 Instrumentssupervisor kanungo’s annual return of survey recorders’ registrar kanungo’s register of 176 42 192 68 21 75 J Jamabandilocal periodic.visit to.maintenance of 88 26.Register correction of Maintenance of Procedure in ditto 120 73 . responsibility of supervisor kanungo held by immigrants striking off of. record of disposal of old filling of issue register new map. ferar and jotrahin. when required preparation of .35 182 18.responsibility of recorders assessment of new .19 70 40 153 191 55 188 39 51.52 16 79 21 63 74 27 74 21 25 9 40 159 34.Rule Page K Kanungo’s dhips kanungo supervisor kanungo registrar 144 61 19 10 155 98 20 67 61 (VII) 64 44 11 36 33 Land Classcolumns 12.for new field work surveyed areas Mapping of new cultivation Marksinspection of boundary . Check by Sub-Deputy Collector of ditto preparation of ditto by recorders receipt by mauzadar of ditto 158 207. columns 14.by supervisor kanungo maintenance of survey survey 121 .208 23.40 13 34.15 .chitha Leave of absence of recorders Leave of absence of supervisor kanungo List of supervisor kanungo’s returns 66 27 132 179 36 15 59 69 ListsCheck by supervisor kanungo of faut. 13.81 23 64 81 13.chitha when double cropped M Maintenanceof survey marks of jamabandi register Map care of checking.19 17 L Landassessment of new .35 33 65 18. from the assessment rolls unsettled . 73 83 73 90 N New cultivation . report by registrar kanungo field work. unsurveyed areas 47 118 23 55 107 90 155 64 Operations of cold weather tour spring tour winter recess 107 77 110 47 39 49 Orders for issue of annual and periodic pattas of Deupty Commissioner 105 201 46 78 O Office-mutation work in Omission of newly-taken land.assessment of Newly . 185 210 187 217 Page 12 16 38 87 62 61 54 91 67 87 73 85 89 45.particulars of New land .taken land ommission of 79 83 19 155 Note bookof checking.153 139 Numbering of fields.mapping of New fields.Rule Mauzadarsalteration by.check of recorder’s Method of survey Miscellaneous revenue enquires 22 30 72 215 149 143 117 220 Mutationcheck of by supervisor kanungo disputed classes of errors in. 63 60 .and partitions register of Sub-Deputy Collector’s transfer to recorder’s paper of ordered in court work in office 170 212 184 211 216 102. surveyed areas of fields. undisputed mauzadars . tahsil of tauzi mutations and partitions by Measurement .check of Measuring standard . ferar and jotrahin attendance of recorders on claim of jamabandi for wasil. recorders’ entries to be made in recorder’s diary and 55. of recorder’s list of faut. check by supervisor kanungo 122 40 41 10 64 27. Rule Page P Particulars of new fields.81 51.134 92 93 123 5 17.48 46 112 213 131 199 50 86 59 78 45 106 88 105 49 22 47 42 46 24 22. crop statement and Pattas transfer from one to another Pay of supervisor kanungos.on the map Periodic Jamabandi .recordes’ and supervisor kanungos’ Periodic fields alteration of inking .40 25 44 44 53 58 186 73 Promotionrecorders’ supervisors kanungo’s 2 125 1 56 Punishmentrecorder’s 4 registrar kanungo’s supervisor kanungo’s 180 126 2 69 57 Q Qualifications recorders’ R Raiyats-information to Ratessanctioned bigha in unsurveyed and unsettled areas 8 31. ferar and jotrahin lists by recorder map for new field work village and lot plus ad minus settlement abstract village abstracts and totals Preparing new draft chithas Pony-supervisor kanungo to keep Procedure in registering exclusions and additions in Jamabandi register 83 41 214 215 87 89 111 78.local correction of Periodic pattas or annual .59 43 44 .orders for issue of Plotting Preparation offaut.disbursement of Pay bill .52 96 94 113 128 12.108 105 49 40. entry in chitha Partition by Sub-Deputy Collectors. undisputed cases of Partitions mauzadar’s mutations and Pattaclass of new and re-included distribution of orders for issue of annual and periodic supplementary settlement abstract. work by supervisor kanungo duties of Sub-Deputy Collector during operations of winter work of recorders in Page 160 204 110 86 65 79 49 42 25 116 13 54 55 153 27 63 Recorder . list of 179 Returns and registers. miscellaneous.of recorders ditto in. by recorder 157 43.see Table of ContentsRecords .40 91 68 69 20 91 . 185 100 182 186 Registerscircle office recorder’s registrar kanungo’s supervisor kanungo’s 223 38 181 172 Reliquishments check of . Sub-Deputy Collector 222 annual work. enquiries. recorders of mutations Jamabandi. maintenance. of supervisor kanungo 177 supervisor kanungos. maintenance of Jamabandi. by Sub-Deputy Collector 220 124 77 45.Rule Recesscontrol and check of . procedure 195 102.80 Reportsannuals. by supervisor kanungo verification of. of Sub-Deputy Collectors of recorder’s bad works by supervisor kanungo of error in mutations. by registrar kanungo 222 141 184 91 61 73 Residencerecorder’s Supervisor kanungos’ 6 130 5 58 Responsibilitiesgeneral of supervisor kanungo 140 60 RecessesField tours and .73 45 70 73 93 20 70 67 64 21.unsurveyed areas Record ofmap testing with recorder map checking by supervisor kanungo Returnannual of.custody of by registrar kanungo 188 74 Registerof candidates.recorders 38 Revenue. correction of Jamabandi. ...and crop abstract...Rule Rewardsrecorders’ supervisor kanungo’s 14 129 Page 8 58 S Safeguard against assessing high land rice fields twice over 46 Sarkari dags .increase of recorders 5 increase of supervisor kanungos 127 Standard-check of recorder’s measuring 143 Statement .........settlement assessment 171 Stationary-forms and...see Table of Contents Supervisor kanungos.map chitha and jamabandi of 18 218 16 125 50 48 9 90 9 ....operations ..see Table of Contents 14 55 39 4 58 61 67 75 11 Supplementary settlementabstract........ duty of Sub-Deputy Collector Surveyed areas .of 77 Staff. crop statement and pattas survey for 112 109 Surma Valleydemarcations in pattas in 32 105....86 Surveycertificates (school) certificates for extension instruments annual return of for supplementary settlements marks method of 9(1) 13 176 109 33-35 48 6 7 68 48 17-19 24 Survey ofunsurveyed areas.treatment of 62 Schoolcertificates Settlement ... duty of recorder unsurveyed areas.....assessment statement of (dual)..... unserveyed areas 123 Spring tour . supervisor kanungo’s 23 35 9(1) 6 171 67 Settlement Abstractpreparation of the village and lot plus and minus 96 preparation of .213 17 46... 193 Striking off of land from assessment roll 20 Sub-Deputy Collectors.. amount required from Sub-Deputy Collector 37 133 41 164 20 59 21 66 203 79 25 116 145 203 13 54 61 79 Transferfrom one patta to another 213 of instruments 221 to recorder’s papers of mutations. ferar.Rule Page T Taking over charge by recorders charge by supervisor kanungo Testing chain. by recorder Totalling . jotrahin and relinquishments in forms and registers to be maintained for jamabandi and chitha in 17 114 121 120 17 9 54 55 55 9 Tours and recesses of recorders of recorders. by supervisor kanungo Touring .check of. ordered in court 187 86 91 73 Transfers recorders’ supervisors kanungos’ 3 125(IV) 2 57 Treatment ofsarkari dags unsurveyed areas 62 124 35 55 Undisputed field mutation work cases of partition 211 214 85 87 Unsurveyed areasChitha and jamabandi in disappearance of faut. in unsurveyed areas Supervisor kanungo’s Sub -Deputy Collectors U 126 . com. . 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