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are able under good management to yield, then for a tern- Append 

 porary period the Sirkar may get rich, but the ryots will 

 become poor and dispirited, and the consequences in the 

 end become equally injurious to the governing power as 

 oppressive to the industrious ryot. 



The rent of the munnoah lands are settled in the mode 

 of battaye (or in kind\ in common with the other four 

 articles which are cultivated with it. Hence the produce 

 of the munnoah can only be estimated at one-fifth portion 

 of a begah thus sown: but this portion yielded by the 

 munnoah is in general more valuable than any one of 

 the other sort of grain cultivated in the same ground and 

 at the same time, since, upon the exactest estimate that 

 can be now formed, the value of the hakim's share, or one- 

 half the arhur, kodow, janowrah, and sawaun, when reaped 

 is no more than 8 rupees 8 annas, whilst of thirty-five 

 seers of munnoah, the medium rate be produced, this 

 proportion when divided will be that of seventeen-and- 

 a-half seers, which if the selling prices of that article be 

 fixed on the Resident's rubby-neckhoamah for battaye 

 lands, at the rate of two rupees per ruaund, as they are at 

 this time in the market, will bring him fourteen annas, 

 while all the other four together produce only 1 rupee 

 8 annas. At this rate the produce of a begah, sown as 

 above, would yield in a year 4 rupees 12 annas, or 2 

 rupees 6 annas to the hakim and the same to the ryot. 

 But here it must be observed, that in this mode of settling 

 with the ryots for the rent, such rent must be subject to 

 great variations as to its amount, since the produce 

 equally depends on a number of collateral circumstances, 

 such as the quality of the land, the nature of the seasons, 

 the prices of the articles in the markets, and on the 

 quantity of the produce itself, &c. &c. 



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