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the estates included in the old circle were definitely Nahri in character, and
the retention of the old circle was unnecessary.
None of the riverain and Pacca circles was homogeneous since canal
irrigation began outside the protective embankments which intersected
estates so that half of a village might be canal irrigated and the other half
riverain. Furthermore, creeks ran through the centre of the district, and on
their banks cultivation was riverain in character.
It would have been desirable to divide the Pacca circle of Tehsil Muzaffargarh
Tehsil into Chenab and Indus circles since the soils, crops, water supply and
methods of irrigation were different on the two sides of the Tehsil. The
division was most difficult to make as to the south of Muzaffargarh town
many estates got irrigation from both series of canals; but the lumping of all
the canal irrigated estates, irrespective of their source of irrigation into a
single circle gave a false picture of the tract. The Settlement Officer did not
realize this until he came to inspect the estates for assessment, by which
time it was too late to submit any proposal for a sub-division of the old circle.
The following table shows the various assessment circles with number of
villages therein in each tehsil of the district as recorded in the Settlement of
the year, 1920-24:

Name of tehsil Assessment Circle No. of Villages
Layyah Kacha 23
Pacca 74
Thal Jhandi 45
Thal Kalan 28
Total 170
Kot Addu Thal Chahi 25
Thal Nahri 8
Pacca 74
Bet Sindh 28
Total 155

Name of Tehsil Assessment Circle No. of Villages
Muzaffargarh Thal 83
Sindh 39
Pacca 202
Chenab 88
Total 412

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