BELL ARY.
248 30,000 armed men,
upon
in the pay of 80 different chiefs, were quartered and maintained entirely by forcible requisitions from classes. Colonel Monro, the first Collector, surveyed
the people,
the cultivating the
Ceded Provinces,
Bellary included
and, assessing the lands at
something below the average of the nominal revenue under the Mysore rulers and the Nizam, settled for each field directly with the actual cultivator. The revenue collections from the Bellary taluks, during the
nine years
in which this system obtained, averaged annually In 1808, the Ceded Tracts were divided into the two
- ^227,i42.
and Cuddapah ; and when the system of triennial was introduced in the following year, the revenue collections
Districts of Bellary
leases
in Bellary' alone rose to ;j^249,5i4 per
leases were
ten
changed
years a decreased
owing
annum.
In 1812, the triennial end of the
to decennial, the result being at the
average of receipts, ^243,207,
—a
to the general reduction of assessment directed in
decrease 1820.
In
1822, the original system of settling with the cultivators direct was reverted to, and a further general decrease of assessments introduced.
The
result was a further reduction of the average of land revenue, pure and simple, between the years 1822 and 1830 to ^207,373 per annum between 1830 and 1840 it rose to ^^292,000 between 1840 and 1850, fell again to ^22 1,000 and between 1850 and 1869, rose to ^^336,000.
On
the 5th January 1882, the old Bellary District was divided into the
two Districts of Anantapur and Bellary. the present District
For administrative purposes
sub-divided into the following 8 taluks, namely,
is
Adoni, Allur, Bellary, Harpanhalli, Havinhudgalli, Hospet, Kudlighi, and Raidrug. Including Anantapur, the total net revenue of the District in 1881-82 amounted to ^^253, 583, as follows: land revenue, ^185,561; dbkdri (spirits and drugs), ;jC49,i87; stamps,
- ,Ci5,6i 7; assessed taxes, ;^32i8.
Under the name of motarfa a. .di had from an early period been levied from the non-agricultural classes,
and being continued under British administration until 1837, yielded, on the average, ^^28,206 per annum. In i860, 7notarfa was formally This in turn was abandoned abolished, and the income tax imposed. in 1865, between which date and 1869 various substitutes, in the shape In 1869 the income tax of licence and certificate taxes, were tried. was again established, and was continued at various rates till 1873. The licence tax has been levied since 1878. Civil justice
munsifs; the
is
administered by four grades of courts,
District
nmnsifs ; the subordinate judge’s
The
of the District judge.
cases
subordinate to
magistrates,
and the
it
The
village
the sessions court for criminal
are the village magistrates, the subordinate
full
finement of prisoners there jail at Bellary.
last is also
—the
and the court
last is
power European magistracy. is
For the con-
a sub-jail in each tdluk, with one District
capable of holding 400 prisoners.
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