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This article has been extracted from <br/>

THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908.<br/>

OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.
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''Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value. ''
=Shahpur Inundation Canals=
A system of inundation canals in 
the Punjab, fed from the Jhelum river and mainly situated in Shahpur 
District. About sixteen of them are owned by private persons and six 
by Government. Of the latter, three are classed as Imperial and two 
as Provincial, while one, the Pind Dadan Khan Canal in Jhelum Dis- 
trict, has recently been made over to the municipal committee of Pind 
Dadan Khan for management. 

The three Imperial canals lie wholly 
in the Shahpur tahsil^ and are developments of a canal dug in 1864 
by Colonel Sir William Davies, to supply water to the civil station of 
Shahpur. In 1870 Government acquired this canal and added two 
new canals, The Imperial canals command an area of 105 square 
miles and irrigate 50 square miles a year on an average, yielding a net 
revenue of Rs. 50,000, or 24 per cent, on the capital outlay. Of the 
two Provincial canals, the largest is the Ranlwah, an old native canal 
which had fallen into disuse and was reopened in 1870-1. 

It com- 
mands 72 square miles in the Bhera tahsil and irrigates 30 square 
miles annually, yielding a net revenue of Rs. 11,000. It has ex- 
tinguished its capital cost and yielded a net profit of 4-1 lakhs to 
Government. The Corbynwah, constructed in 1879, irrigates about 
4,500 acres, mostly grass lands, in the Khushab tahsil on the right 
bank of the Jhelum. 

The Find Dadan Khan Canal does not pay expenses, but it supplies 
the town with sweet water. It performs a small amount of irrigation 
as well, the area irrigated in 1904-5 having been 395 acres. The 
private canals have a total length of about 227 miles and irrigate 
87 square miles. Many of them are old canals which had silted up 
and were re-excavated, under Sir Donald McNabb and other Deputy- 
Commissioners of the District, by owners or lessees to irrigate their 
own lands. They also irrigate the lands of other persons on payment 
of a water rate. As noted in the article on the LOWER JHELUM CANAL, 
most of these inundation canals will cease to exist as such when the 
Shahpur branch of the Lower Jhelum Canal has been constructed.