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Journal of the House of Lords
… of obtaining on a Lease 500 Acres, must he not have Leases from Two or Three hundred Proprietors, all possessing …
Journal of the House of Lords
… and depends on the Circumstances of the Country. Granting Leases of them, or retaining them without Lease? There is no …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Money they had saved. With whom did you agree for the Leases you held in the Names of your Servants? With the Talookdars and Zemindars. How many different Leases had you? At different Times not above Three or Four large Tracts; some Leases including Ten or Twenty Villages; some including as …
Journal of the House of Lords
… should be bound, instead of obliging the Potail to grant Leases, which was not the Custom of the Country. Did the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… that Quantity of Ground? Yes. Did you hold a Lease? Leases indirectly. To what Extent? That I cannot say. Did you …
Journal of the House of Lords
… of the Country, intended with a view to a new System of Leases, was not yet completed? Not yet. No Leases have been made under the particular Plan you described … have been made in furtherance of that particular Plan; but Leases have been ordered in the whole of the District of …
Journal of the House of Lords
… they vary in different Parts of the Country. Before those Leases were granted, were any Means taken to ascertain the … of forcing the Ryots to observe the Conditions of the Leases made with them? They have no Power, except that of …
Journal of the House of Lords
… of Revenue would be realized. It was a System of Village Leases, which superseded entirely the former Ryotwar System. … were bad Seasons and poor Ryots. The new System of Village Leases held out no Prospect of the Government realizing a … it had under the Ryotwar System? It could not, for the Leases were for a Term of Years, for an Amount I believe not …
Journal of the House of Lords
… which they never part with. What is the Extent of those Leases? If Garden Land, Twelve Years is the general Period; … Year to Year? Yes; Garden Lands at the Expiration of the Leases, but not Paddy Fields, (that is Rice Fields,) which …