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‘half [the produce] to the owner, and do not lease out the field to 
‘anyone else for a year afterwards,’—the intention is that, as the 
fixed revenue (Kharaj-i-muazzaf) is not affected by the productive 
‘or barren nature [of the year], in both cases the cultivator has to 
ay the revenue in cash: As the Emperor likes leniency and jus- 
tice, [he here orders] that the officers should kindly wait for one 
year [for the return of a fugitive ryot] and, in the case of [direct] 
cultivation or lease, they should pay to him any surplus left above 
the Government revenue. 
Fourth.— Inform yourself about the tracts of fallow (uftada) 
ation. If 
But if the land has no owner, or if the owner is unknown, give 
it to aman who can reclaim it to reclaim. Thereafter, if the 
of unalterable rent,—what is called Kharaj-i-muqat‘at,'—or lay on 
it the prescribed revenue of half the crop, —which is called Kharaj- 
i-mugasema. If the owner be known, but is quite unable to culti- 
vate it, then if the land had been previously subject to Kharaj- 
i- mugdsema, act according to the order issued [for this class of 
revenue]. But if it be not subject to Khardj-c-muqdsema or is not 
any crop, then do not trouble [the owner] for tithes or 
revenue, But if he be poor, engage him in cultivation by advanc- 
ing tagavi. 
[Commentary 116; a:—Fourth clause: ‘ When the land forms 
part of highways or is really waste or owned by a person 
‘unknown, or when the owner is quite unable to till it,” and other 
expressions. In all these cases the word owner is used in the 
day, in sup 
of brevity they have not been mentioned here. ] 
_ -Fifth—As for a desert tract (badia), if the owner be know2, 
leave it with him’; do not give possession of it to others, [117, ®]: 
If the owner be not known, and there is no chance of ‘audat® 1 
the land, then, as policy may dictate, give the land to whomsoever 
be 1 Bilmokta—* land Weld wt a nated unalterable SS Ind., p- 151.) 
