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Seed. 



Produce. 







White Jowarree 4 Pylees 









meat 8 Pylees 









.black MooDgii 1^ Jrylees . 



k 11 /r — j — 















The mode of settlement with the ryot differs in no respect in Ama- 



nee villages, the duty of collecting the revenues of which is vested in 

 the Government Agent, from that adopted in villages under the Ze- 

 mindar. They may perhaps be les3 subjected to the imposition of put- 

 tees, but then again from ignorance or perverseness on the part of 

 the Government Officer they may be more rackrented than those let 

 on the Surbastu tenure. 



The other items of revenue are as follows : 



I. The Moturpha or house rents from villages is collected every 

 three months. Besides the ground allotted to these rent payers for 

 the sites of their houses, a small portion of garden ground called 

 Peereer is granted them rent free, on which they grow cucumbers 

 and other vegetables — if the houses of the village are much crowded 

 together, the Peereer is assigned to them in the precincts. 



II. The Sahyer is collected by a separate functionary, called the 

 Sahyer Naib under the Suddur Naib, he has got his subordinates at 

 the different chokees, or stations who are^constantly on the alert, and 

 who cause much delay and annoyance of every kind to those engaged 

 in traffic ; there are no less than twenty-eight of these chokees in the 

 Nelgoondah Sircar alone, at each there is a Chokedar and a Mootsud- 

 dee, who are paid by a small per centage on the sums they collect. 



III. Kullalee. — The tax on alcoholic liquors, and on shops where 

 these are sold. The Kullalee is sometimes farmed out to the head 

 Kulial, but at others, collected by the Putwarree, from the individu- 

 al kullals. 



IV. Sewaee, or Sevay, as the Telinghees mispronounce it; under 

 this head come fines of every description, with the exception of the 

 fines of a large amount paid directly to Government by Zemindars 

 under the name of Nuzzurana and JShookerana, the first in the case 



