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per cent, being allowed for the difference of currency. The Jumma thus 

 fixed, amounted to 123,577 Furruckabad rupees. At the expiration of this 

 settlement, the PadMns were called upon to engage for the assessment of 

 their respective villages : as this mode of collection was, in some degree, 

 novel, and as the individual responsibility of the Padhdns remained to 

 be ascertained, the arrangement in question was only partially introduced, 

 and the leases restricted to one year, at a Jumma of 1,37,949 rupees. 

 The success with which this experiment was attended, and the punctuality 

 with which the revenue was realized, led to an extension of the system on 

 the third settlement, which was fixed for a period of three years, at a Jumma 

 of 1,60,206 rupees. The present settlement was formed on the same prin- 

 ciple, and from the reluctance of the Mdlgiizdrs to engage for a longer 

 period, was again fixed for a term of three years. The objections preferred 

 against a longer lease were founded on the migratory habits of the lower 

 class of cultivators. The Jumma of the 1st year, or 1877j amounted to 1,69,394' 

 rupees, which has been raised in the last year of the term, 1879» by the 

 rents of new villages, to 1,76,664 rupees. This sum is collected from 7883 

 Mdlguzdrs, and is comprised of the following items : — 



Cess on Agriculture, 



1,69,566 



Ditto ditto Copper Mines, 



3,360 



Ditto ditto Iron Mines, 



1,100 



Ditto ditto Pasturage, 



2,638 



A further branch, at former settlements, consisted of cess on the profits 

 of trade, under which head 7000 rupees were annually collected from the 

 Bhoteas. This source was forgone at the last settlement, and a remission 

 to that amount made to the Bhoteas. The revenue derived from timbers, 

 bamboos, kuth, &c., in the Tarai forests, may also be included in the land 

 assessment, as, although levied in the shape of duties from the exporters, it 



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