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afraid that anarchy will soon prevail in the district if prompt steps are not taken to save the people.
Page 374, August 31st 1901, Vilukanipalli Shrotriam village
A.G., of the 31st August, 1901 complains that the Vilukanipalli (near Nellore) being a shrotriam village, is not provided with a village office establishment. The government as well as the ryots incur much loss owing to the mismanagement of the village affairs. The paper requests the Collector of Nellore to bring Act II of 1894 into force in the village and appoint village officers for it. It requires him also to get the fields closely surveyed and demarcated and to remove the many evils prevalent there.
The court of Wards Bill - A.G., of the 31st August, 1901 speaking of the Court of Wards Bill now under consideration, remarks that it contains many points, which cannot be approved of the section empowering the government to take position of any zamindari wherever it considers the proprietor thereof incompetent to manage it owing to his mental or bodily weakness, and to entrust it to the court of wards is objectionable. The government should not have so much power. In all such cases it should require a Full Bench of the High Court to decide the question and then settle the fate of the zamindari in accordance with the decision. Even when an estate is highly encumbered, the government should not act of its own accord but refer the matter to the High Court and act as it decides.
Page 381, September 7th 1901, Shrotriam village lands
A.G. of the 7th September, states that the last survey has shown 739 acres under wet and dry cultivation in the shrotriyam village of Vilukanipalli, while the old inam register recorded only 456 acres, and asked it would not be more profitable to government to get the village surveyed again. There are such 200 shrotriam villages in the Nellore district and it is not improbable that similar discrepancies exist as regards these villages also. The paper proposes that some capable and popular revenue officer should immediately be appointed to make inquires regarding the said villages. The sircar revenue will thereby be increased and the poor ryots will also get on well. If the government provides suitable means of irrigation, the ryots can willingly pay any
