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19. Recovery of arrears. All taxes imposed under this Act shall be 

 recoverable, whether by the Government or by renters under Government, 

 or by such sub-renters as may be thereto authorized by the Collector in a 

 notification in the District Gazette, in the same manner as arrears of 

 land revenue. 



20. Penalty for litigiousness and imposition. Every person resist- 

 ing- the recovery of a lawful demand of tax (or interest thereon), or 

 vexatiously and litigiously applying to a Magistrate to stay the recovery 

 thereof, and every person wilfully making an unlawful demand, shall incur 

 a penalty of fifty rupees. 



398. In the Bellary Collectorate, fifteen tehsildars (see paragraph 1 73) 



compute the fishermen at 7,880, but they 



BellaryCollectorate: opinion ^ Q Laye ofher occupations . in one t h ^ 

 of the native officials. . , . , , , ,-.. , , 



fish are stated to be sold in abundance, but 



in all the others the supply is insufficient and more could be disposed of, 

 the fish-eating class being set down at 66 per cent, of the people, The 

 amount in the waters is universally considered to have decreased, due 

 to the deficiency of rain, for the last ten or fifteen years. During the 

 monsoon months, small fish are taken in the jungle streams and nallas by 

 placing thread and basket nets concavely against the running water. 

 The following are the minimum size of the mesh of nets which are stated 

 to be employed : One, "as big as a broomstick ;" one, "as broad as the ring- 

 finger ;" three, as wide " as a 2-anna piece -" one, " as big as half the ring- 

 finger " one, the " size of a dholl or pigeon pea " two, " as big as lamp- 

 oil seeds " two, as small as the circumference of a bodkin ; two at Jth of 

 an inch ; one at -gth of an inch ; and one at less than 7 ] n th of an inch between 

 the knots. Fish are said to be trapped in the irrigated fields by three 

 of the reporters. Amongst the Various modes of fishing in the Collecto- 

 rate are the following : Idapola, a drag-net used by two men in tanks ; 

 isara-vala, a casting-net ; galam, baited hook : in nallas and channels 

 small banks of earth and sand are thiown across running water, leaving a 

 gap, wherein a net is fixed : poison is said to be employed in Alur. 

 Basket nets fixed nets placed over-night across streams and removed of a 

 morning, and in the irrigation streams nets are likewise fixed. 



399. In the Trichinopoly Collector -ate, five tehsildars reply (see para- 



graph 175) as before, except that the popula- 



Trichinopoly Collectorate : tion numbers about 1,149,801 persons, out of 

 replies of native officials. , ^nrrnr-o ,1 i 



whom 407,0 oo, or upwards of one-third, eat 



fish. All the native officials now report that the amount in waters has 

 decreased of late years (previously one stated they had increased) : the 

 use of small meshed nets is universally reported; the minimum size of the 

 mesh is given thus: One, the "size of the little finger/'' one, the "size of 

 a quill ;" one, about the " size of a tamarind stone ;" one, ^th and one, Jth 

 of an inch. In one talooka only, are fish said to be trapped. 



400. In the Kistna Collectorate, the Deputy Collector observes, as 



regards prohibiting the sale of fry in the 

 ^zar, that any attempt "would be useless. 

 The best way prohibition can, I think, be 

 effected would be by preventing them from being caught in the first 

 instance by regulating the meshes of the nets employed, and by renting 

 out the fisheries with the requisite prohibitory conditions on the subject/' 



