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K 12395, 4, Collectie Stad Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience
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The history of British India |
Full text | ‘ ii " u 4 12 es ee eS eae eae a : eS ey 2 Quinquennial Leases expire. BOOK v. General, the office was established. ~Orders were Cuar. 3 Les transmitted to the Provincial Councils; and native officers, called aumeens, were sent to collect accounts, and to obtain information in the districts. The first incidents which occurred were complaints against those aumeens, for injurions treatment of the inha- bitants; and the opposing party were careful to place these accusations in the strongest possible light. From the aumeens, on the other hand, accounts ar- rived of frequent refusal on the part of the Ze- mindarry agents, and others, to afford information ; or even to show their accounts. The five-years’ leases expired in April, 1777; and the month of July of that year had arrived before any plan for the current and future years had yet been determined. By acknowledgement of all parties, the country had been so grievously over-taxed, as to have been altogether unable to carry up its payments to the level of the taxation. According to the state- ment ef the Accountant-General, dated the 12th of July, 1777, the remissions upon the five years’ leases amounted to 118 laces 79,576 rupees; and the balances, ef which the greater part were wholly irrecoverable, amounted to 129 lacs 26,910 rupees. In his minute, on the office of inquiry, Mr. Barwell expressly de- clared that the “impoverished state of the country loudly pleaded for a reduction of the revenue, as ab- solutely requisite for its future welfare.”! In the mean time dispatches arrived, by which it was declared, that the Court of Directors, after considering the plaus, both that of the Governor-General for letting 1 Mr. Shore (Lord Teignmouth) said in his valuable Minute on the Revenues of Bengal, dated June, 1789, printed in the Appendix, No. 1, to the Fifth Report of the Committee on India Affairs in 1810, that “ the settlement of 1772, before the expiration of the leases, existed, he be- eved, no wliere, upon its original terms.” sod Taye ie REGO Seer ey iy sae ? |
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Acknowledgements | K 12395, 4, Collectie Stad Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience |
Source listing | Mill, James, The history of British India, K 12395, 4, Collectie Stad Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience |