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PREFACE. As Cadastral Surveys and Settlements of lands are already in progress and are about to be undertaken on a large scale in various parts of Bengal, this little book, giving as it does, rules for minutely calculating areas in acres and standard bighas and converting acres into standard bighas and vice versa, as also standard bighas and miles into local bighas and standard bighas as also acres respectively and vice versa. &c., &c., &c., with proofs, illustrations and tables, will, it is hoped, supply a want, which is known to be felt generally by officers employed on the measurement, settlement and acquisition of lands, as also by Zemindars and other landholders who might have occasion to measure their own lands. Besides helping Settlement officers and all other officers engaged on the measurement of lands, this book, it is also hoped, might help Judicial officers and Pleaders in correctly finding out for themselves the areas of lands and converting areas into different denominations for the purpose of checking the work of Civil Court Amins. In fact this book is intended to help all officers, from Collectors and Settlement officers to Canoongoes and Amins on the one side and from Civil Judges to Civil Court Amins on the other, besides Pleaders, private Zamindars and their Amins. No pains have been spared to make this book as useful as possible. As the Tenancy Act requires that all areas of lands coming under its operations should be shown in acres, this book gives, first of all, rules for correctly and speedily calculating areas in acres. It may be noted, though known to all engaged on the measurement and settlement of lands, that in cases in which areas have to be shown in acres, the use of the Gunter's chain of 66 feet is most expedient. The object in publishing this book in Bengali is that most persons who may have occasion to refer to it, are acquainted with Bengali only or at best, Bengali and English ; still with a view to make it useful to officers not well versed in Bengali, the broad rules for calculating areas of different denominations and converting areas of one denomination into those of another, have been given separately in English.