Papers Relating to the Revision of the Rates of Assessment on the Expiration of the First Settlement in the Old Inda'pur, Bhimthari, Pa'bal, and Haveli Talukas of the Poona Collectorate

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Government Central Press, 1877 - 567 стор.
 

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Сторінка 53 - ... duration, there is an obvious advantage in regulating the assessment by considerations of a permanent character, or at least such as are not likely to undergo any very material change during the term of years (generally 30) for which it is to endure. 67. In determining, then, upon the extent of country to be assessed at uniform rates, we are of opinion that the more permanent distinctions of climate, markets, and husbandry should receive our chief attention. We should not think of imposing different...
Сторінка 153 - The ordinary progress of a society which increases in wealth is at all times tending to augment the incomes of landlords ; to give them both a greater amount and a greater proportion of the wealth of the community, independently of any trouble or outlay incurred by themselves. They grow richer as it were in their sleep, without working, risking, or economizing. What claim have they on the general principle of social justice to this accession of riches...
Сторінка 457 - Such revised assessment (ie at the expiration of the guaranteed term of thirty years) shall be fixed, not with reference to improvements made by the owners or occupants from private capital and resources during the currency of any settlement under this Act, but with reference to general considerations of the value of land, whether as to soil or situation, prices of produce, or facilities of communication.
Сторінка 346 - There can be little doubt that the overestimate of the capabilities of the Deccan formed arid acted upon by our early collectors drained the country of its agricultural capital, and accounts in great measure for the poverty and distress in which the cultivating population has ever since been plunged.
Сторінка 447 - I am directed by the Honourable the Governor in Council to acknowledge receipt of your letter No. 2035, dated 7th October 1861, requesting his opinion 'upon the advantages of a Permanent Settlement as applicable to the various districts of the Madras Presidency...
Сторінка 95 - This table is chiefly interesting as showing the gradual diminution in the price of corn from the days of the Peishwas to our own. By comparing the prices at the commencement with those at the end of the table, and then reading the list over, this circumstance will become very apparent.
Сторінка 173 - The increase of revenue in the case of a taluka or group of villages brought under the same dry-crop rate shall not exceed 33 per cent, (b) No increase exceeding 66 per cent should be imposed on a single village without the circumstances of the case being specially reported for the orders of Government, (c) No increase exceeding 100 per cent shall in like manner be imposed on an individual holding.
Сторінка 59 - ... left to them after payment of the government assessment. I am consequently of opinion that we may take the average price of grains during the latter half of the second decennial as the index by which we may estimate from prices what our present assessment ought to be. In other words, the percentage increase which has taken place during the last ten years will represent generally the percentage addition to the present assessment which may now be made.18 With the increase in price of grain during...
Сторінка 165 - I. The sale of waste lands in perpetuity, discharged from all prospective demand on account of land revenue ; and II. Permission to redeem the existing land revenue, by the immediate payment of one sum equal in value to the revenue redeemed.
Сторінка 405 - ... Great Eastern may, hereafter, be condensed in the flattering eulogium, " their ideas in regard to dimensions were in advance of their age — they were only before their time." Though far from realizing the expectations once entertained with regard to speed and small consumption of fuel, her failure is, mainly, to be attributed to the fact that, at the time she was constructed, there were no lines of traffic on which a vessel of such huge capacity could procure, with despatch, the amount of freight...

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