132 corn. — Rent wider Native Government*. 



repay the cost of collection, and which, for t he ave- 

 rage of rice land, U eqpiv&lenlt to onty one ?5tb. part 

 in the hundred, of ihe ^rnss produce value. 



If rent was given by tenants, as.above stated when 

 the richest land only was cultivated, and when plenty 

 qf fi rlile land was tying paste and could have been 

 had for a nominal relit, it is a clear proof that here, at 

 least, it >yas riot required for the separation of the due 

 |ir»»purtinn of rent from wa^e.< mid profits. t> uair 

 until all the fertile land had been occupied and cul- 

 tivated. 



We are here, to prevent confusion throughout this 

 branch of the euquin, trealiu^ of <//vm/-land onh . 



Thus t v, although laud equal in ferlilitv to that 

 which hi* s been already cultivated is still l\in# waste, 

 rents have nevertheless increased. As far as consum- 

 ers are concerned, it matters little who ale the pro- 

 di cers, or bla ther the owners of the soil me the land- 

 lords or the labourers ; nor, to the classes who supply 

 articles of convenience and luxury whether they 

 arts paid from the rents of the landlord, or the profits 

 of the labourer, tenant, and landlord, combined in one 

 individual . 



liy a reference to the first part of this Work, it will 

 he seen that the not under the old Keddah ^ovcni- 

 meut paid a quit-rent equal, on an average of present 

 prices, to about the 18th. part of the fcross produee 

 \alue, besides indefinite exactions. Six parts in ten 

 are paid by Japanese farmers of gratnJaud products. 



From the Vndnng Undang or written laws of 

 K« ddah, the following particulars are extracted : — 



" When a irnnlen is to be sold, the trees are to be eHtimat- 

 Vil w\ \ of it dollar each an J the amount will be the pi ice of ihe 

 land. 



** What the Rajah has given, no one can take away— nor 

 can any one sell land flu given, without the Rajah's con* 

 currence. 



