Parliamentary Papers, Volume 4H.M. Stationery Office, 1859 - Bills, Legislative |
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17 February 24 March acres Assam Assam Company Assam tea assessment aware believe Bengal Bombay British Cachar Calcutta canal Captain Cowper Central Asia Chairman civil servants collector Colonel Sykes Committee cotton cultivation Cuttack Dacca Darjeeling Deccan district doubt Elphinstone Enam Enam Commission England English estates European evidence exports favour flax Forbes give Godavery Government grants Gregson Haig hills Hindoo Honourable Member importance improvement Inam increase indigo planters irrigation J. B. Smith judge justice Kinnaird Kurrachee labour land revenue land-tax language Madras magistrate March means ment miles missionaries Mofussil mutiny native navigation North-West Provinces officers opinion opium police present produce Punjaub R. D. Mangles railway Rajah Rajahmundry regard rent rent-free tenures resumption river roads rupees Russian ryots Scinde settlement settlers Sikkim Sir Erskine Perry Sudder Tibet trade Vansittart Vetch Villiers Warden witness zemindars
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Page 231 - I have long lamented that our countrymen in India are excluded from the possession of land and other ordinary rights of peaceable subjects ; I believe that the existence of these restrictions impedes the prosperity of our Indian Empire, and of course that their...
Page 340 - Provided always, and be it enacted, that it shall not be lawful for any...
Page 231 - I am further convinced that our possession of India must always be precarious, unless we take root by having an influential portion of the population attached to our government by common interests and sympathies. Every measure, therefore, which is calculated to facilitate the settlement of our countrymen in India...
Page 59 - ... as the people knew that it was a grant of public revenue. The princes were, it is true, despotic, but they were liberal, and even profuse, in their grants, and the grants themselves grew out of their very despotism ; for it was because they found no difficulty in resuming, that they made none in granting.
Page 340 - Company and others now lawfully authorized to reside in the said territories, to enter the same by land, or to proceed to or reside in any place or places in such parts of the said territories as are not hereinbefore in that behalf mentioned, without...
Page 61 - ... order; the rest of the country will be held by the Honourable Company. The revenue will be collected for the Government, but all property, real or personal, will be secured ; all...
Page iii - Land ; and who were empowered to Report the MINUTES of the EVIDENCE...
Page 51 - I have never made any reply to them, but at the same time I wish it to be understood that I am not entirely ungrateful or insensible to such remarks.
Page 289 - ... irrigation works is well set forth in a Report by the Collector of a district in the Presidency of Madras, in which famine prevailed in 1855. The document is quoted by Mr. Dickinson in the appendix to his pamphlet : — ' But no estimates of tho quantities of food which have been produced through improved irrigation, no mere return of increase of revenue realised in an irrigated district in a year when such heavy remissions of taxes have been found necessary in other less favoured tracts, can...
Page 58 - Go*vernment, by which they are protected, or to the public works, from which their estates derive equal benefit, with the rest of the community. They are indebted for the exemption either to the superstition, to the false charity, or to the illdirected...