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The object which we have in view in recommenrl. 
ing a strict enquiry into the old and present 
services of the caste, which compose the popula- 
tion of the island being solely to render the weight 
of them more equal, by placing the performance of 
them at a fixed scale, which with time must biing 
about a desire of redeeming them in every district 
of the Sinhalese country, or in the Malay provinces, 
there should be made a list of all castes, shewing 
their rate of old and present services, or the rate of 
redemption in money, collecting for each caste, 
and separately for each individual according to any 
agreement which may have taken place as well as 
of the Provinces which they possess or have pos- 
sessed in consequence of those services. 
These lists collected by the Collector General 
will enable him to present to Government an 
aproximative table of those caste?, and Govern- 
ment will decide on the measures to be taken to 
forward the object in view, beginning by refreshing 
the abuse which has raised so many individuals and 
families from the low into privileged caste. The 
Landraads which are to be re-established in the 
circumfeience of Ceylon must be six (greater), 
namely, at Colombo, Galle. Matara, Balicaloe, 
Jafuapatam and Trincomalee, and six (smaller) at 
Negombo, Chilaw, Calpentyn, and Manaar. The 
greater Landraads will have six members each, 
and the smaller four without comprising the 
Collector of the District, who is always to be the 
President, and to have a casting voice in the case 
of an equal division of votes. The members must 
be, as much as possible, natives of the place itself 
when they exercise the office. 
The Secretary must not have a vote in the greater 
Landraads. The sitting Magistrates of the dis- 
trict where the Landraads meet must be by virtue 
of office members of it, but without an additional 
pay on that account and only sitting and voting 
personally. The same with the sworn Surveyor, 
the Maha Mudliyar, and his deputy, and the 
Mudliyar of Atapattu. These, however, should give 
an opinion but not concluding vote. 
Two of the paid members of the Landraads with 
the Secretary will hold their sitMngs five days of 
the week as Commissioner of Inquiry, which the 
Council may institute in causes of litigation to 
make a written report on the subject ; and the 
Secretary must keep a commissorial list of those 
enquiries. 
The employment of Secretary requires not only 
a competent man, but an active and laborious 
one ; he keeps an account of the sittings of Coun- 
cil, and is responsible for all that is done. His 
salary should at least be by half larger than that 
of the members, and he should have a clerk to 
assist him ; if he wants an extra clerk or two, he 
should pay them as well as for paper and pen, for 
an yearly allowance for that purpose. 
Two sworn interpreters, a messenger and two 
Lascoreens should be attached to the service of the 
Court of a landlord. It would be right to fix the 
pay of the landlord of the four chief places of 
the Island, at one-fourth higher than that of the 
members of others on account of the higher rate of 
the price of provisions, and Government will get 
the expediency of increasing the pay by a fourth 
more after four or five years good service. 
It will be necessary to stipulate by a Govern- 
ment order the manner of proceeding in those 
courts, and the expenses of suits, and when expe. 
rience would have pointed out the justice of (he 
order, it might be printed and published in four 
languages. The order of Governor Vande Graa, 
might serve as a model. 
The institution of Magistrates to supply the 
place of Dissavesin the administration of justice, 
will have henceforth as a further object the keep- 
ing of the receipts of the revenues by registering 
the accounts presented by each owner of what he 
has paid that year. The Collector may fix after 
harvest season the work in which they will make a 
general comparison of all the accounts given in of 
the revenue, as well of the landed interest as of 
every other nature on which checks may have been 
kept. 
Isb. By the paid servants who have received 
the revenues for Government. 
2nd. By the sitting Magistrates as has just been 
said on the part of the land owners, whose protec. 
tors they must be against injustice and ex- 
tortion. 
3id By the Mudliyars or native chiefs. 
The Collector must immediately after having 
made this comparison of accounts draw up the 
annual report of revenue to present it to Govern- 
ment, and they must give a duplicate to the Col- 
lector-General that he may preserve a regular 
suit of those reports from year to year, and thereby 
have a means of comparison which may be useful 
to the revenue and to the public in general. 
One of the things which will the most contribute 
to the projects of agriculture will be the repairing 
of the old dykes which contain the water necessary 
for the growth of rice, and the constructing of new 
works of that kind. 
It is not in the Government that the expense of 
of those works will fall— the agricultural part of 
the community, which has nine-tenths of the 
harvest should do all the labour of those construc- 
tions ; the Government must only direct them. 
For this purpose, the Collectors in the country, 
more especially in the north, east, and south, 
must inspect those dykes and have them closely 
examined to repair at once what requires it, and 
they must draw up a report to Government of the 
state of those works, and their views on the con- 
struction of new ones; the Government will enquire 
into the feasibility of their projects by means of 
an Engineer, as the Dutch Goveraraent did. 
A sketch of this kind will have repetitions, and 
perhaps they are desirable that it may be well 
understood ; we shall make no apologies therefore 
for repeating, before we conclude, the essential 
resume of this sketch in a few words. 
1. Under the Dutch Governmeut the country 
was but partially cultivated ; its revenue was 
badly administered, not from want of knowledge 
but from the reasons above given — that the Gov- 
ernment was as good as the circumstances would 
allow. 
2. That under the present Government after the 
total subversion of all ancient customs and usages, 
the evil has gained ground in every regard ; which 
has deprived Government of a very great source of 
revenue, which might have been derived from the 
country if their principles had been followed, with 
the facility which it had to institute everything on 
the best footina ; this must be attributed to the 
want of local knowledge. 
3. That we are convinced that by the a'ioption 
of the above measures the good of the people will 
be forwarded and the revenue of the country 
doubted even without its present population being 
increased ; that the prosperity will increase in 
