1st sort One-half of the estimated produce. 2d do. Two-fifths ditto. 3d do. One-third ditto.
1st sort Two-fifths of the estimated produce. 2d do. One-third ditto. 3d do. One-fourth ditto.
"Government," it is said in the eighty-fifth section, "think it necessary to declare explicitly, that they will be satisfied when the land revenue shall be productive to them in these proportions, determining at no future period to raise the scale; so that the inhabitants, being thus exactly acquainted with what will form the utmost demand on them, and resting in full confidence that government will not exact any thing further, may in that security enjoy their possessions in undisturbed happiness, and apply their utmost industry to the improvement of their lands; assured that, while they conduct themselves well, that land will never be taken from them, and that the more productive they can render it, the more beneficial it will be for themselves."
The government share might either be received in money or in kind from the _sáwah_ lands; but the _tégal_ produce, though estimated in maize, was always, if possible, to be commuted into money at the lowest price in the market; and as cultivators generally held portions of both, this rule, it was conceived, could not be considered generally as a hardship.