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twenty-five per cent., which is payable, together with the princi- 

 pal, as soon as his crop is reaped. If four maunds of grain are 

 given — five are expected in return, if Hupees 4, Rupees 4| are 

 demanded and so on. Lagore is another kind of advance of 

 two or three rupees for the hire of labourers, to assist him 

 in his work — after the rice has been in the ground about a 

 month and has appeared above water — a portion of the rent 

 called Tuccuddumee is demanded from the ryot, who has re- 

 course to the money lender for assistance— but this instalment, in 

 case of the dry grains, is asked as soon as the seed is in the 

 ground — when the grain is ripe a second instalment is paid called 

 Kurbast, and, before it is allowed to be carted to the corn yard, — 

 the third and last instalment, called Domballah, has to be paid. 

 In levying these instalments a wide door is opened to oppression 

 and exaction by the Grovernment, it is the work of Appraisers call- 

 ed Unchemwallahs. The legitimate appraisers should be a Gro- 

 vernment servant, the village Putwarree, and an intelligent ryot, 

 but they are often hired servants of the JSTaib and strangers to the 

 villagers — in which case it is not to be expected that much justice 

 should be meted out to the cultivators — such Appraisers are con- 

 tent with very small wages — four annas a day, expecting higher 

 wages and employment if they satisfy their principal. There is 

 much guess work and many wilful mistakes made by these publi- 

 cans, and any one who makes a progress through the Nizam's do- 

 minions too often sees protests against their proceedings in fields 

 of ripe corn remaining uncut and hastening to destruction by the 

 refusal of the ryots to cut their crops under the unjust conditions 

 proposed to them. 



The following table of average seed and produce per beegah, 

 they have to direct them if they choose, but the beegah is so sel- 

 dom well defined that it is frequently of little use. 



Seed. 



Produce. 



Rice 2 Maunds 



Samah 2 Pylees 



Moongk 2| Pylees 



Bajreeh 2 Pylees 



Tillee Sesamum 1 Pylee . . 



Kungoonee 1| Pylees 



Yellow Jowarree 4 Pylees 

 Toor 4 Pylees 



12 Maunds to a Kundee. 

 8 to 10 Maun 



2 Kundees. 

 10 Maunds. 

 5 Maunds. 



5 Maunds. 



6 Maunds. 



8 to 12 Maunds. 



