11$ 



out, the average assessment comes to about 1 rupee, while the. 

 average dry assessment of the district is 14 annas 10 pies. 

 The wet lands leased out do not seem to be of exceptionally 

 good quality, for while their average assessment comes to 

 Rs, 6-3-2, the average wet rate for the district is Rs. 7-7-0. 

 The following statement shows that in a considerable number 

 of cases the rental exceeds even ten times the assessment : 



Note. — In all these cases the lessor pays the Government assessment out of the 

 rent stipulated. 



49. The proportion of Government assessment to the 

 Ratio of Government g^'oss producc was estimated by the Famine 

 assessment to gross pro- Commissiou at 6*3 per ccut., taking the 

 ^'^^^' value of the gross outturn at 50 crores 



of rupees, and the land revenue at 3*16 crores. They have 

 excluded from land revenue 1*37 crores as being water 

 charge and not forming part of land tax proper. Including 

 this amount, the proportion is 9*2 per cent. In these calcu- 

 lations, however, the outturn of favourably assessed inam 

 lands and of zemindari lands, which now pay to Government 

 a smaller revenue than ryotwar lands, has been included. 

 Taking the ryotwar lands alone, the average rate of assess- 

 ment for wet lands is Es. 5 per acre and for dry lands 1 rupee 

 per acre, and these rates are between one-fourth and one-fifth 

 and one^fourth and one- sixth, respectively, of the gross out- 

 turn according to settlement calculations after deducting 

 from the average outturn 16f per cent, in the case of wet and 

 25 per cent, in the case of dry lands as allowance for vicis- 

 situdes of season. The average outturn of lands is, ho xv ever, 

 extremely difficult to calculate on account of the witie variety 

 of soils and of seasons, the produce even in a email cycle of 



