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  Lambardar---   Appointment---Creation of more Lambardaris ----Policy set out in Colony Manual Para. 617 to be followed.   ORDER   This purports to be an appeal against the order of the Commissioner, Bahawalpur Division, dated 12-2-1957, by which he sanctioned the creation of third Lambardari in village Hakim Amir Din, Tehsil and district Bahawalnagar. I have heard Raja Hassan Akhtar, Advocate, for the petitioner and Syed Mahmood Shah, Advocate with Mr. Sikandar Bakht for Atta Ullah, Respondent.   This village contains 2084 acres of land of which 1877 are cultivated. There are already two Lambardars including, Zulfiqar Ali, petitioner. For the reason that in an average village one Lambardar is provided for 20 squares i.e., 500 acres of land in Colony Chaks, the Commissioner thought that the creation of an additional post as Lambardar was justified.   It has been argued before me that in several other villages in Bahawalpur State there is only one Lambardar for as many as 60 squares of land. The policy in this matter is contained in paragraph 617 of the Colony Manual and is to the effect the 20 squares should be considered fair average for one Lambardar and may well be adhered to as a general standard though con sideration must always be had to the special circumstances of the individual…