§ COLONEL WARING (Down, N.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India whether the Government of India intends, for the purposes of the Behar Cadastral Survey, to re-iutrodnce the Patwari Bill in some modified form; and whether the Patwari Bill was vetoed by the Secretary of State in 1885 as an infringement of the permanent settlement, and on what grounds?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Mr. G. RUSSELL,) North Beds.(1.) The intentions of the Government of India in regard to the re-introductiou of a Patwari Bill have not been announced to this Office. (2.) The Patwari Bill was abandoned in 1886 in connection with the Muzaffarpur Survey, because, the measure being purely experimental, it was not considered right to lay the expense upon the people.