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Intion XXXVI. of 1793, when a deed was presented for registration, it remained in the office till it had been copied in the register book. This led to great delay, and accordingly Regulation XX. of 1812 provided that deeds presented for registration should be accompanied by a properly certified copy. The original was then at once endorsed and returned, the register copy being made from the copy which accompanied the original. Provi. sion was also made in Regulation XX. of 1812 for the registration of engagements to cultivate indigo, as well as of bonds, promissory notes, and other obligations for the payment of money. Act XXX. of 1838 empowered Government to place registration offices under the superintendence of any officer residing at the station where they were established, and henceforth the Civil Surgeon was generally the registrar. By Act I. of 1843, and in a clearer form by Act XIX. of 1843, it was enacted that registered deeds affecting land should take precedence of previously executed unregistered deeds affecting the same property, even when the latest registered instrument had been executed with a knowledge of the existence of the older unregistered one. Under the provision of Regulation XXXVI. of 1793, Section 7, deeds could only be registered in the registry Office of the zilla or
city which contained the property affected by them. But Act IV. of 1845 made it lawful to register deeds in any registry office within the Presidency of Fort William, providing at the same time that whenever a deed was registered in the office of a district not containing the whole of the property affected, a copy should be sent to the office of every district which contained any part thereof. No other important change was made in the law till the whole was repealed by Act XVI. of 1864.
11. Enough now has been said to show very suf. ficient causes for the failure of the Qazi system of registration. The men who had to work it were doubtless from the first tainted with the venality and corruption which everywhere prevailed amidst the ruins of the Mughul administration. They were stripped of the power and authority which might have stimulated their self-respect and attracted capable men into their ranks. They worked absolutely without supervision, and their attestation of a deed had no legal validity whatever; and at the same time a rival legally valid system of registration was at work in every district. The wonder is, not that the syltem failed, but rather that any one should have taken the trouble of registering before them at all.
REVIEW LA LANGUE ET LA LITERATURE HINDOUSTANIRS EN 1873. The state of vernacular colleges, literary and poli
REVUE ANNUELLE. Par M. Garcin de Tassy, Membre tical associations, is noted; all the newspapers are de l'Institut, Prof. à l'Ecole Spéciale des Langues Ori
enumerated and described, and the titles of nearly entales Vivantes, &c. Paris, 1874.
all the Hindustani books, printed chiefly in the It is now the twenty-second time the venerable M. Garcin de Tassy has published his Annual
North-Western Provinces, are given, even the Review of Hindustani Literature, which, being the
present religious revival among the Muhammadans only regular and systematic compilation of the
has attracted the attention of the venerable Orien
talist, and he gives the titles of the controversial kind in existence, is always expected with eagerness and hailed with applause. All the materials
works published by them against Christianity in constituting this Review come from India, and
various parts of the country, such as Dihli, Lahor, are so carefully examined from the beginning of
and Bangalur. every year, as they gradually make their appear.
Doubtless M. Garcin de Tassy gives a true ance, till its end, when this summary of the entire
account of the works he had the opportunity of Hindustani literature of India appears, and are
personally examining, but we observe that he so scrupulously embodied in it, with all the sources Bometimes dignifies the merest pamphlets with whence they are taken, such as books, newspapers, the name of books, and insignificant men with that or speeches, that not even such a small produc- of great poets, and we must conclude that he has tion as the Rev. Dr. Murray Mitchell's "Lady culled his notices from the ealogistic mention and the Dove" has escaped the lynx-eye of this made of them in Urdu newspapers sent to him. venerable Orientalist, although, being in Bengali In this way he has also caught hold of the idea and English, it did not strictly fall within the sphere that, in consequence of the sympathy between the of Urda literature. Educational progress, however, English and the Parsis, intermarriages among and the emancipation of both the male and female the two races are not rare :-" Ainsi, l'an passé, mind from the captivity of saperstition and ignor. six Anglaises, dont deux filles d'un colonel, ont ance, are a favourite theme with M. Garcin de Tassy, épousé des Parsis." From another passage we and therefore he has now and then cast a glance learn that, besides the Englishman who was Deputy at literary productions not composed in Urda. Commissioner at Sirsah, three Europeans had also
