34S On the Population of Bengal. 



Artificers in the districts alluded to in another place, we have, 

 6,718,154 persons paying land rent and ground rent. It' 

 each ot" these be deemed the head of a t'amilv, the popula- 

 tion, at five to a family, might be estimated at 33,500,770. 



But several rents arc not unfrequently paid by the same 

 family; for this reason, the number of husbandmen may 

 be thought over-rated, as in the rent-rolls which were ab- 

 stracted, tenants holding from more than one landholder, 

 or paying t'.vo rents to the same proprietor, must unavoida- 

 bly have stood for two persons. The excess in the estimate 

 arising from this cause is perhaps not fully balanced by the 

 various classes not contributing directly to the rental. 



3d. The same objection occurs to an estimate from the 

 average rents of tenants ; it may nevertheless be proper to 

 view the result of a calculation on this ground. 



On the rent-rolls examined for the quantity of land as 

 mentioned above, the payments appeared at 4 7 B, 020 sicca 

 rupees on 68,647 leases to cultivating tenants ; or nearly 

 seven rupees each. 



In the first year of the permanent settlement the revenue 

 realized to government was current rupees 3,06,98,253, or 

 sicca rupees 2,64,64,094. The assessment was calculated 

 to leave an income to the proprietor equal to a tenth. 

 Land revenue - - 2,64,64,094 



Proprietor's income - 26,46,409 



2,91,10,503 



Charges of collections and management, as actually al- 

 lowed in some instances, and deemed a very moderate al- 

 lowance, 20 per centum on the gross produce, 72,77,626 

 Gross rents, or actual payments by tenants 3,63,88,129 

 Add for free lands in the same proportion as 



before, l to 6 - - - - 60,64,688 



Payments by tenants, sicca rupees - 4,24,52,817 



At the rate^ already sugscsted, of seven rupees each, these 

 payments arise from 6,064,6&S tenants ; and assuming their 

 iamilies at five, the population would be 30,323,440. 



As ground rents are of small am.ount in proportion to the 

 land rents, the average of seven rupees for each tenant might 

 have been reduced on this account. This, with the omis- 

 sion of numerous classes not paying a direct rent, may be 

 deemed equivalent for the repetition of names in rent-rolls : 

 and the near coincidence of 30,323,440 with the number of 



30,291;051, 



