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proportion to the Government favouring the popu- 
lation the agriculture, aud clearing of the lands. 
This needs no expedience foreign to the customs 
and old institutions of the country to which the 
people are very much attached. 
4. Tliat these means of restoration and of 
amelioration depend on the Government, ordering 
that previous to every other charge a tenth must 
be raised on the produce of alllands in value. 
That of rice, the tenth will be received, without 
its ever being formed out, but thit it shall be 
received by native employes paid monthly in the 
manner above indicated. 
That the rest of the revenues of the country 
which it may be absolutely requisite to form out, 
will be received also by native employes. 
That land Thombo will be formed by the different 
Collectors within the space of a year of all lands in 
a state of cultivation and cleared off. in the 
manner mentioned above, or in that followed by 
the Dutch Government and begun in the province 
of Jafnapatam. 
That a head Thombo of all the inhabitauts shall 
be drawn up, on a given plan in the space of one 
year and a half. 
That the services, to which the castes were liable 
in the time of the native princes, will be inquired 
into and modified in a just and equitable manner, 
so as to bring about the redemption of them col 
lectively by a whole caste tor capitation tax, if it 
cultivates rice, but this redemption must be depend- 
ent on the progressive restoration of agriculture, 
which may render the revenue derived from it of 
as much importance as the land tax in toto. 
That the abuses, by which individuals of families 
of low castes have passed or pass into privileged 
ones, and so become exempted from service, be 
inquired into and prevented for the future. That 
the inhabitants, belonging to a caste subject to a 
corvee, will be free from it, in the year that he shall 
have sown and cultivated a piece of rice ground of 
10 parras produce. 
That the Landraads be established on the old 
plan to judge the causes of the inhabitants after 
the regulations instituted for that purpose ; as 
well as to be the guardians of the land Thombos 
of their districts, and for every other purpose which 
Government may require- 
Taat sitting Magistrates be established in every 
Corle where the number of inhabitants will 
allow. 
That the dangerous influence of the chiefs of 
the country be as much as possible diminished by 
mild means, and chiefly by withdrawing from them 
the keeping of the revenues which will prevent 
their annoying or favouring any individual in the 
collection of them. 
That, on account of the utility of repairing the 
old dykes or tanks necessary for the cultivation of 
rice, as well as of constructing new ones, the 
Collectors and Sub-Collectors of each province be 
ordered to make a report to Government of their 
actual state and of the best projects respecting 
them. 
As all the plan of restorations and improve- 
ments are subservient to, and aependent on each 
other, each project must have its time of execu- 
tion and be followed up with that tact which is 
acquired by experience. We again repeat that we 
have here advanced no ideal theory, but the fruit 
of many years' experience. The greater part of 
the improvements we suggest have been tried in 
a cuaaiderable district of Ceylon, where the state 
of population was most deplorable in 1784, and 
where after 11 years' application Agriculture 
became flourishing, manufactures of first necessity 
were repioduced, the population augmented, and 
the revenue quadrupled. 
The compiler of these detached remarks on 
Ceylon knows well that a good or more improved 
measure is seldom effected by Government when 
trouble is imposed by so doing — because man's 
natural fault is to be idle, frivolous, and avaricious. 
He also knows that Government besieged by 
want of the moment do not willingly apply 
themselves improvements which offer only 
prospective advantages, and also that under per- 
verted Government projects of improvement only 
conceal snares for fresh extortions. He would 
not refuse complying with the request of a dis- 
tinguished individual, to place his ideas on paper, 
and he will esteem himself fortunate if any one 
of them in its execution tends to increase the 
prosperity of the Island of Ceylon. 
Colombo, July 6, 1509. 
IN MEMORIAM. 
( Communicated, ) 
The deathof Sir William Raymond Kyusey 
will be very widely regretted throughout 
the Island to which he had given 
the best years of his life. His connec- 
tion with Ceylon dated from the 'sixties, 
when he was a young Army Surgeon. A 
senior Colonial Surgeon, who had aspired to 
the Principal Civil Medical Officership on the 
retirement of Dr. Charsley, held himself re- 
sponsible for the appointment of the successful 
candidate. Captain Keith Jolly was his 
patient upcountry, and he had sent him to 
Mount Lavinia to recruit, with a letter com- 
mending him to the care of Dr. Kynsey, then 
in charge of a detachment of troops at the 
Mount. The handsome young Doctor did not 
confine his attentions to the veteran Planter, 
who was accompanied by his two daughters. 
It was his wife's interests in the Island which 
made the Doctor covet the post which Dr. 
Charsley vacated in 1874, and the disappointed 
Colpnial Surgeon felt he had " nursed the 
pinion " 
Without claims to any special eminence in 
his profession. Dr. Kynsey proved himself an 
excellent administrator, and did not in any 
wise spare himself either in the organisation 
or the development of the Civil Medical De- 
partment, Apart from the natural growth 
of the Department through the increase of 
population, he had to provide for the absorp- 
tion of the Estates Medical Branch, and for 
the extension of the benevolent policy, first 
systematically carried out during the regime 
of Sir Arthur Gordon, which provided Field 
Hospitals and outdoor Dispensaries in out- 
lying districts and villages into which Western 
science had never before penetrated. The 
duties which devolved on him were very far 
from light, and at the outset there was con- 
siderable friction in connection with the 
Estates Medical Branch ; but by a combina- 
tion of tact and firmness he overcame all 
difficulties, and was as widely respected by 
the Planters as by the general community 
when he retired after 22 years' service, Tbq 
