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20. The starting point, which was pointed out on behalf of the claimant No. 2, is the northeast corner point of the junction between Diamond Harbour Road and Goragacha and Shahpur Road. The other claimants stated that it was not possible to locate Mouza Majerhat or any injunction point, and did not Show any point from which any enquiry could be made.

21. The Revenue Survey Map shows the Diamond Harbour Road to the east of Mouza Majerhat, and to the west of Durgapur and the Garden Reach-Tollygunge Road to the south of Majerhat and Durgapur and to the north of Shahpur.

23. This would go to show that the Diamond Harbour Road, in so far as it lies between Majerhat and Durgapur, and the western portion of the Garden Reach-Tollygunge Road now called Goragacha Road are included within Mouza Majerhat.

24. The hhusra map of Durgapur, dated 1849 (Exhibit VI), supports the above. The map shows that Majerhat lies to its immediate west and Shahpur to its immediate south, and no portion of the road to its west or south is shown as included within any of the dags of the mouza, though the map describes all the dags in the mouza.

26. The Revenue Survey Map, Exhibit VIII, shows the meeting points of two roads and they appear to be similarly situated as shown in the case map, The other claimants, however, do not admit that the roads from Garden Etsach to Tollygunge as shown in the Revenue Survey Map are the present Goragacha and Shahpur Roads, but they could not point out the junction of the roads in the Revenue Survey Map when asked by the Commissioner to do so. The Commissioner found the identity of the roads in the Revenue Survey Map with the present Diamond Harbour Road, Goragacha and Shahpur Roads in the locality to have been established, and the north-eastern corner of the junction having been found to be the trijunction point of the three mouzas, held that the position of the trijunction station No. 28 of the Majerhat Thak Map to be identified in the locality. This, however, involved one assumption, viz., that the roads have been in the same position all along. There is a bend in the present Goragacha Road and the band is also shown in the Revenue Survey Map. There is some evidence to show that these roads have been in the same position all along (see witness No. 2 for claimant No. 1). The breadth of Shahpur Road according to the Shahpur Chita would be 57 feet, and the breadth of Diamond Harbour Road would be 63½ feet. The distance between stations Nos. 26 and 29 (S and B in the report of the Commissioner at pages 19 of the paper-book) is 62 feet, and the distance a few feet away from the junction (between S and B in the said plan) is 57 feet, the difference being only five feet.

79. The boundary of plot No. 6 of that taluk follows the drains running from 64 to 65 and then westward. The whole of plot No. 33/4, 1, 2, 3, 4/1 and 4, (1) a, and a strip of land to the east of the tank in that plot form part of the old Taluk No. 167. The drains shown following stations Nos. 3 to 1, 1 to 18, and 18 to 13 is the boundary of plot No. 1 of the old thak map. 27 Diamond Harbour Road falls entirely within Taluk No. 167.

80. In dealing with plot No. 4 we have Very little to go on in the nature of existing boundaries, inasmuch as the old drains have been tilled in by Mr. Braunfield in the construction of: his arrowroot fields. From the fact that station No. 35 is obviously in exactly its right position we may accept the conclusion of the Commissioner as to the extent of premises No. 30, Diamond Harbour Road, which fell in the Taluk No. 167.