cons .^—Renf under Nttfhe Governments, 183 



" The Rajah confirms the title to land bestowed by a Chirf. 



14 The land is not id bo mortgage;!, but what ia growing 

 thereon only ; and the person taking charge of a mortgaged 

 garden will forte one-third of the produce for his share. 



"When a garden or cumpong is enclosed by othar gardens, 

 the proprietors of thesf last must leave a road for egress 

 to the owner of the former, his elephants and cattle. 



*< Any one clearing distant forest-land may occupy it — 

 imd if he lives on it and any one bclzi a it, the latter will be 

 to blanu aiid a fine of 10 mas, or 5 Spanish dollars will be 

 levied era him. Should it have been abandoned for a year, 

 still a fine will be exacted. 



"Any one occupying garden-land without a title-deed 

 received from the Rajah, will be liable to pay two-thirds of 

 the produce to him. But this relates to land within the 

 King's bounds." 



A tenth of the crop is the nominal rent exacted by 

 the Indo-Chinese Buudhist governments, lit conformi- 

 ty to their religious code, which came originally from 

 India. But all the people of these countries are sub- 

 jected more or less to forced services, which some- 

 times reduce them to a state little short of absolute 

 slavery. 



This rate often per cent, would scarcely ever have 

 here exceeded four rupees an orlong on the very host 

 description of soil, which is just one-half of the actual 

 money-rent, and one-third of the actual rent in kind 

 now paid by tenants or fanners to independent pro- 

 prietors of land here. 



When, from the advances of money which had been 

 made by Government to the poorer ryots, and the 

 extension of cultivation, the population had a clear 

 course before it, it became nee&mry to make ar- 

 rangements for securing to the State a fair propor- 

 tion of what might separate itself in shape of rent. 

 Those who came under the final settlement of lands 

 already cleared and cultivated, could have had no 

 reasonable-cause for dissatisfaction, because others had 



