REPRESENTATION..........MANGS ETC. 313
(A) NON SERVICE INAMS
- The terms of the Summary Settlement Acts applied only to two classes of Inams (1) Personal and (2) Devasthan Inams, i.e., to Non-Service Inams. The main principles underlying the Settlement Acts were as follows :—
(a) The conversion of all Personal Inams (also spoken of as Warshasans ) whether adjudicated by the Inam Commission or not, into transferable freehold.
(b) The imposition of a quit rent or Nazarana upon such lands on account of such conversion the amount of which was fixed :
(i) By Act II of 1863 at 4 annas for every rupee of the full assessment, plus a Nazarana equal to an additional one anna in the rupee, and
(ii) By Act VII of 1863, at 2 annas in the rupee without Nazarana.
- The extent of the annual loss which Government has suffered on account of the relinquishment of its right to full assessment by the settlement effected by these Acts was by no means small as will be clear from the following figures : Annual Loss to Government on Non-Service Inam Lands held as Personal and Devasthan Inams
Division
Assessment on alienated lands less quit rents ( Judi )
Rs. a. p.
I Northern Division … 1,26,529 15 1
II Central Division … 2,86,292 2 3
III Southern Division … 2,02,827 3 6
Total : Rs. 6,15,649 4 10
- As stated before the terms .of the Summary Settlement Act applied only to Non-Service Inams, i.e., to Personal Inams, and Devasthan Inams only. They did not apply to Service Inams, i.e., the Political Inams and Non-Political Inams. They were expressly excluded from their operation and reserved for separate treatment.