144 MALAY LAND TENURE. 



" quires the one-fifth of produce to be paid in kind, the tenant 

 " must deliver it at the landlord's grange on the property as 

 " soon as reaped.'" 



" If landlord and tenant cannot a gee as to the number of 

 " piculs the different fields will yield per bahu, the rest of the 

 " villagers are called in, the crop is at once cut down, tied up 

 " in geddings or bundles of padi as big as can be held in the 

 " two arms, and put up in heaps of five yeddings each. The 

 " landlord or his agent then takes one c/edding from every 

 lc heap. The villagers get a certain proportion of the geddings 

 " for cutting down and stacking the crop, which, makes it the 

 " the tenant's interest to agree to a rather higher assess- 

 " ment in quantity, so as to be left to cut down his crop him- 

 " self. The landlord is subject to the disadvantage, in thus 

 " having the crop cut down by the villagers, of having to carry 

 " away his own share, which also induces him not to insist 

 " on quite the highest valuation in quantity he thinks the 

 ( can bear/' 



" If the landlord and tenant agree as to quantity, but can- 

 " not agree as to the market price, the peasant is left to reap 

 " his crop himself, and has to deliver to the landlord one-fifth 

 " of the stipulated quantity of padi in kind, for the safe de- 

 " livery of which the village chief is also responsible." 



" The value to be agreed on is the current market value of 

 " the neighbourhood in full harvest, and when consequently 

 " the price is lower than the average throughout the year. 

 " The cottier knows that if the landlord and he can agree as 

 "to value, he will have four months time to pay in. He 

 " knows that as soon as the harvest is all in, and the produce 

 " rent of the neighbourhood has either been sold on the spot 

 lf or been sent away for export, produce will rise again to the 

 " usual price through the year in his locality. It is the tenant's 

 " interest, therefore, to agree to both the assessed quantity and 

 " value if not exorbitant, while the landlord's estimate is kept 

 " within bounds bv the tenant's right to pav the actual one- 

 " fifth in kind." 



" Large European Landowners. — Although, as previously 

 " mentioned, the English Government of Java found on in- 

 " quiry that the Native chiefs did not even claim any proprie- 



