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6. in the hill tracts, the joiut-rent system is iu use, but the villages 

 are given away for a fixed sum and not rented out for a term of years 

 as was the ease before the disturbance of 1879. The condition of the 

 people in these parts is also much improved. The rioting of 1879 com- 

 pelled the Government to clear the jungles and lay roads. The 

 communication to the hill tracts being more easy now, the hillmen . 

 have come more in contact with the people in the plains and learnt 

 the real value of things which they used to dispose of at a very cheap 

 rate in their own places or in the periodical markets on the outskirts 

 near the plains. Tamarind, myrobolams, soapnuts, hill- oranges, timber, 

 honey and wax are the chief products of those parts. The price of 

 these articles has risen considerably, and the hillmen are in a much 

 better condition than before. Paddy is also iu use in these parts, the 

 clearance of jungles and communication by roads having rendered cart 

 traffic easy. The food in general use here is chiefly paste from 

 tamarind seeds, mango see'ds and toddy from jiluga trees, which yield 

 toddy abundantly. Jonna is also in use in some parts. Transplanta- 

 tion of paddy is carried on under tanks in some places, the people 

 having learnt it from those in the plains. Survey and settlement are 

 also begun to be made. This will gradually find its way into the 

 more interior and the people will become more settled. Their educa- 

 tion is also attended to now. Local Fund 'schools are established in 

 certain localities and there is also a Superintendent of Hill schools. 



7. The Local Fund Act has greatly added to the convenience of 

 the people everywhere. Roads have multiplied ; the indigenous schools 

 considerably improved and their number increased ; sanitation attended 

 to ; tanks and wells dug even in remote places. The number of 

 village schools has so considerably increased that there are now four 

 Deputy Inspectors (Sub-Assistants) and one Assistant Inspector for 

 the whole district in the place of one Deputy Inspector some 7 or 8 

 years ago. There is besides an Inspecting Schoolmaster for each taluk. 

 The Sub-Assistant Inspectors are stationed, one at Narsdpur, another 

 at EUore, a third air Eajahmundry and a fourth at Cocanada. The 

 district is considerably in advance in this respect also. 



8. The improvement in all directions which has been the source of 

 happiness to the people has also been the source of great litigation. 

 Much of people's money goes to swell the revenue of civil courts and to 

 fill the pleaders' purse. People are more reckless in their proceedings 

 and squander away their money, caring only to win their cause, good 

 or bad. The couiitrj is in every way in a prosperous condition and it 

 is quite unlike what it was prior to the construction of the anient. Sir 

 Arthur Cotton, to whose genius this gigantic work owes its existence, 

 seems to have estimated the land revenue of the district at 22 lakhs 

 and expected to realize 50 or <)0 lakhs when the whole project was 

 complete, as will be seen from the Manual of the district. Now, from 

 the jamabandi report for fasli 1297, the land revenue appears to be 

 88 lakhs and odd. Other cesses, peishoush from zemindari estates, 

 quit-rent on inam and inam villages, come up to 14 lakhs and odd. 

 Salt, abkari, opium, ferry fund and income-tax amount to upwards of 

 6 lakhs. The grand total of the revenue of the district from all 

 sources reaches nearly that amount which the great benefactor, Sir 

 Arthur Cotton, roughly estimated some 40 years ago. The present 



