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the ordinary profits in regular (as opposed to specula- 

 tive) trade in the neighbourhood, and either declare 

 the debt discharged, or fix the amount still fairly due, 

 and the interest, if any, thenceforth payable. 



All this is in favour of the agriculturist ; but, the 

 decree given, the capitalist would no longer have to 

 spend and spend, and petition and petition, to get it 

 executed. The decree would be made over to the 

 head revenue official* of the jurisdiction, whose duty 

 it would be to see it realised, as an arrear of land 

 revenue, as rapidly as was consistent with not ruining 

 the debtor, without the money-lender taking any 

 further trouble about the matter. 



In some localities the state of the people is such 

 that it would be desirable to set perhaps a hundred 

 such judges to work for three months in a single dis- 

 trict, assigning to each a circle of from ten to twenty 

 villages according to population, and requiring the 

 judges to adjust every such matter pending in each 

 village, and voiding all claims not laid before them 

 for adjustment. In other districts, again, one such 

 judge for each pergunnah, tuppah, or other convenient 

 local subdivision, or even one such for each tahsil or 

 other local revenue circle would suffice, and it might 

 not be necessary here to void claims not presented, 

 but only to empower the judge to decide all cases 

 brought before them by either party. 



In many districts no immediate action seems called 



* Tahsildar (Upper India) ; MooTctearkar (Sindh) ; Mamlutdar 

 (Bombay), &c. 



