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CONTENTS. 



Page 



cclv, cclvi 

 cclvi-cclviii 



(7) Extract from Sir Eenry Maine's speech on the Panjab 



Tenancy Bill before the Legislative Coancil of India 

 in October 1868 



(8) Extract from Sir Frederick PoHock's English Land Laws ... 



(9) Note on the discussions in the Madras Presidency as 



regards the preferential rights of Mirasidars and resident 

 ryots to cultivate waste lands in their villages as against 

 strangers and the final settlement of the question ... cclTiii-cclxiv 



(10) Extract from the speech of the Honorable Mr. Ilbert in the 

 Legislative Council of India on' the Bengs^l Tenancy bill 



in 1885 ••• cclxiv-cclxvi 



0. — Agricultural Indebtedness, its Causes and Remedies ... ... cclxvii-ccxci 



(1) Statement showing the classification of mortgages of im- 



moveable property registered in the year 1891 in the 

 Madras Presidency according to the periods for which 

 they run ... •.. ... ... ... ... ... cclxvii 



(2) Statement showing the classification of lenders, the pur- 



poses of loans, and the rates of interest charged on 



loans, compiled from deeds of mortgage of immoveable 



property without possession and from simple bonds . 



registered in 1889, 1890 and 1891 in certain districts . . . cclxviii-cclxx 



(3) Statement showing the aggregate and average values of 



different classes of documents registered in the year 



1891-92 in the Madras Presidency ... ... • cclxxi-cclxxii 



(4) An account of the methods of business adopted by firms of 



Nattucottai Chetties established in Karfir (Coimbatore 

 District) in lending money to ryots f m-nished by the Sub- 

 Registrar of Kartir ... ... cclxxiii-cclxxv 



(5) Extract from the account given by Mr. Warden, Collector of 



Malabar in 1801, of usurious money lenders in Palghat... cclxxv-cclxxvii 



(6) Extract from Buchanan's Journey through Mysore, Ganara 



and Malabar, 1801, on the method of making advances 



of money for commercial products in Tellicherry . . . cclxxviii-cclxxx 



(7) Extract from a report on the indebtedness of the agi-i- 



cultural classes furnished by the Acting Registrar, South 



Arcot District ... ... ... ... ... ... cclxxxi-cclxxxiii 



(8) Tenant right in Java : extracted from an article from one of 



the English Newspapers quoted in the Indian Econo- 

 mist, 1870 ... ... ... ... ... ... ...cclxxxiii-cclxxxvi 



(9) Description of a Swiss Land Credit Bank ... ,. ... cclxxxvi-ccxci 



D, — Decay of Domestic Industries, Absence of Diversity of Occupa- 

 tions, &c. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ccxci-cccxv 



(1) Extracts from a reply published in the Madras Mail to 



certain criticisms in an article in the Calcutta Revieiu ... ccxci-cocxi 



(2) Note on the progress of education by Mr. S. Seshaiyar, 



Professor in the Government College, Knmbakdnam ... cccxi-cccxv 



E. — Costliness of Justice cccxvi, ccoxvii 



Statement showing the costs incurred in suits of different 



values ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... cccxvi, cccxvii 



F. — Local Fund and Municipal Administration, &c. ... ... ... cooxviii, cccxix 



Extracts from the remarks of Sir Alfred Lyall in regard to the 

 political inexpediency of GTovernment relinquishiijg its right 

 to control the management of religious institutions ... ... cccxviii, cccxix 



