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Supreme Governments evince the deepest anxiety to 

 further the introduction of British enterprise an< 

 capital into those districts now unpeopled and waste, 

 we find these large landed proprietors exempted, 

 not only from all taxation, but from the payment 

 of any revenue on account of their immense posses- 

 sions, while a few tea planters, have to purchase 

 or pay revenue for their petty holdings, and an 

 enormous premium to these monopolists for a pro- 

 prietory right to which they never had a title, 

 should they be fortunate enough to induce any 

 to suffer them to obtain an acre of land. It has 

 been ruled, moreover, notwithstanding the great 

 disadvantages under which settlers in the Kangra 

 Valley labor, that though tea seed is still distributed 

 gratis in the N. W. Provinces, the planters in the 

 Punjab must pay for it, to provide a fund for making 

 roads and bridges, or, in other words, to make 

 good the deficiency of revenue caused by the illegiti- 

 mate monopoly of the landholders; while the high 

 prices bid for land at Government auctions by the 

 Zemindars is viewed by the Authorities with much 

 satisfaction. Surely this state of things indicates 

 some misconception of the true circumstances of the 

 position, or of the motive springs which regulate 

 the action of monopolists, or of societies in ua 

 archaic stage of development. I am the more 

 convinced of this, as it is well known that the 

 distinguished statesman now at the head of affairs 



