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" Governor, who gets one tenth of the share of rice which falls 

 " to the State/' 



" In the villages they prepare beforehand great salas (halls) 

 " for the shelter of the deputation, the members of which are 

 " received at the border of his jurisdiction by the headman, 

 " who instals them in the quarters prepared for them. As 

 " soon as they have settled down and are somewhat rested, the 

 " headman of the village joins them and presents ' the cloth 

 " of the oath, 3 a piece of cotton stuff five cubits long which is 

 " accompanied by five coins (worth about forty centimes), a 

 " cock, as door-keeper of the sala, and lastly some fresh betel 

 " leaves and peeled areca-nuts. The headman prostrates 

 " himself before his offering, and the royal delegate solemnly 

 {J reads out his instructions. This recital over, the headman 

 te swears to conduct himself in the matter as an honest func- 

 " tionary and one anxious for the interests of the State, and 

 " not to lend assistance to any fraud calculated to withhold 

 " any portion of the crops of his district from the researches 

 " of the collectors." 



" Next they proceed to examine, house by house, the heaps 

 " of rice ; these are valued, and against the name of the person 

 " liable for the payment, there is entered on a register one- 

 u tenth of the quantity found, representing the tax due to the 

 " State ; this the proprietor himself is under the obligation of 

 " conveying to the capital, together with a delivery order which 

 " the King's envoy delivers to each cultivator before leaving 

 " their house." 



" When the circuit is finished, the Committee return to the 

 " chief town of the province, where three precisely identical 

 " registers are drawn up recording their labours ; one of these 

 " registers is for the King, another is sent to the keeper of 

 " the rice-granary, and the third remains in the hands of the 

 " Governor. No difficulty or delay is ever experienced in 

 " getting in this tax." 



" Rice which has been exported before the arrival of the 

 " collectors in the district has, of course, had to pay the tax of 

 " one-tenth at the custom house, and the cultivator has nothing 

 " to do but to shew the receipt of the custom-house officers." 



" Forest produce, such as cardamums, gutta-percha, bees' 



