LITEKARY RECISTEJR SUPPLEMENT: 
AND CEYLON 
"NOTES AND QUERIES." 
• fUoii'er this heading we mean to give a small " Sapplement " with out Troinoil Ayrkulturist manihlj, 
according as there is matter of sufficient value so to be preserved.] 
MONSIEUR BURNARD'S MEMOIR ON 
CEYLON. 
( Continued from page 138. ) 
To effect this he should order for the time bein^, 
1. That all the produce of lands in cultivatiou 
should pay a tenth, as well sown lands, as gardens 
planted with fruit trees, excepting only the lands 
included in the gravet of the chief places, according 
to the ancient privilege but with the restrictions 
to be mentioned hereafter. 
2. That the services to which the natives of 
every class are liab'e should be enquired into, and 
that it should be explained how they have been 
changed by the course of time or commuted for 
payment in money. This for the purpose of their 
been equitably modified and thus that they may lay 
weigh alike on all the natives, exemption being only 
extended to the Brahmins and Sinhalese piiests. 
3. Lastly, that an annexed table of the indirect 
taxes, shewing their amount, utility and aim with- 
out reference to profit for the Government be 
transmitted to Europe, that the minister at home 
may always be able to judge of the justice and 
expediency of their continuance, tor the principle 
should alwnys be that these taxes are only an 
auxiliary means to e qunUy share the weight of the 
tax among the people according to each man's 
respectable ability. 
4. The re-establishments of Courts of Landraads, 
to renderjustice to the natives according to their 
ancient customs. The composition of these Courts 
shall be hereunder specified as well as the intro- 
duction of magistrates in all the Corles and Pro- 
vinces, the population of which will admit them. 
5. That the land Thonibo or general registry of 
lands in state of culture be drawn up first by the 
Collectors, each in his own district, in the space of 
a twelve months, on a given plan of which an exact 
c^py shall be furnished by each of them to the 
Collector-General, who from the union of all, will 
be able to judge almost correctly of the tenures, 
quantity, quality and revenue of landsin the Island, 
This may serve till the Government is able to have 
a general suivey made of the lauds in the way 
which had been ordered by the Dutch Government 
and partly excuted in Jafuapatam. 
6. That the list or head Thombo of all the in- 
habitants of the island be forwarded by the same 
collectors, in the space of a year or fifteen months, 
on a given plan, shewing the name, age, caste, 
service (old and new) of e»'ery individual of each 
vil lage, hamlet and liut, of which an ext^t copy is 
to be sent to the Collector-General, tha' Govern- 
ment may know the population of every district 
as well as services to which the inhabitants are 
liable; and this with a view to enforce tlie perform- 
ance, modification or redemption of services in a 
manner the most useful for the public and bene- 
ficial for the increase of agriculture. For the ex- 
planation of the measures recommended by the six 
above regulations, the Sacretary of State might add 
the following restrictions and conditions; — 
Exemption from a tenth of the produce which the 
inhabitants of the Gravets may claim will only be 
extended to those possessions themselves and not 
to any which may elsewhere have. 
The Government will fix in a permanent manner 
the limits of the Gravets of Colombo, Jatnapatam, 
Galle, Matarn, Baticaloe, Manaar, Oalpencyn, 
f'hilaw, and Negombo, and will allow Europeans or 
their descendants to acquire and sell their landed 
estates : not permitting that they or the natives 
be exempt from Indirect Taxes or that the latter 
should be free from the liabilities to service which 
their caste imposes on them, in those gravets them- 
selves, and grantinor to the inhabitants of places 
not in the gravets, for each a portion of land near 
his house free from the payment of the tenth where 
he may cultivate vegetables for his own use. The 
tenth of the land sown with nelie or paddy must be 
received by the Government in produce through 
the means of Arbades, Kanikapulles, Cangaans 
and Lascoreens, paid monthly, sent for that purpose 
into the country at the time of the harvest. They 
must choose in each field, where the harvest is 
got in their presence a good ear, and the 
owner must choose another, and the grain falling 
from the two ears, when rubbed together, must 
be measured in a stamped ineditte ot that year. 
(These niedittes must be stamped by the Collector 
and sent by him to the sitting Magistrate", who 
will distribute them where required.) An 
account must be taken on the field itself of the 
quantity of medittes of grain proceeding from those 
two ears, of the total number of ears reaped in the 
field, on this account must be kept bv the Govern- 
ment servant for the use of the Collector, while 
another must be kept by the owner, who in the 
space of 21 hours must have it registered nt the 
office of the sitting Magistrate of the District, a 
third copy must be kept by the Modliyar, a native 
chief who is to liave a general account of all the 
fields in his province. The confrontation of these 
accounts must take place at the Catchery, province 
by province on a day fixed by the Collector, after 
the tenth having being regulated according to those 
accounts. 
