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BHOTIA MEHALS 



In the Kdmingo records, the original Jama is made up of separate 

 sums, under these several heads. The aggregate of tribute imposed on 

 each Ghat was as follows : 



Kanch. Masa. Ratti. 



Juwar, 133 5 2 



Darma, 363 1 5 



Byanse, 71 9 



Damola. 

 Niti, 206 



Mahq appears to have been, from the first, granted in religious assign- 

 ment to the temple of Badarhidth, therein situate. Byanse, as before 

 noticed, was only conquered a few years past by the Gorlchas, the Jama 

 paid to its former government, Jumla, has been assumed with the view 

 to comparison. The rents of two villages in that Ghat which, as being 

 east of the Kali river, fall within the Gorhha territories, are excluded. 

 The above formed the ordinary revenue. The Bhotias were, at the same 

 time, equally liable with other subjects to the extraordinary demands, in 

 the shape of aids and reliefs, on occasions of the marriage of the sovereign, 

 or of his son or daughter, of war, &c. But as their assessment included a 

 tax on trade, they were exempted from the payment of transit and bazar 

 duties, throughout the dominions of their prince. 



The villages below the Ghats incorporated with these MehaU were 

 subjected to the same system of assessment, the only variation being in 

 the detail of assets, of which, profits of trade form no part. The absence 

 of this item is compensated by the increase under the head of agricul- 

 ture, arising from an additional crop. As a considerable proportion of 

 the land in these villages has been gradually acquired by the Bhotias in 



property, 



