Motarpha tax, and then have its collection made by their own servants on their own behalf, it should entail on us a great loss for the reasons mentioned below. Many of the persons who pay Motarpha tax have built houses on Jeroyiti lands, for which we pay revenue to the Government. Partly in the form of loans and partly in the form of free help, we have given large sums of money to the Motarpha-paying ryots to enable them to build houses whether on their old sites or on the Jeroyiti lands, and also to carry on operations of trade.
"Many of these ryots have, moreover, taken loans from us and cultivate our Jeroyiti. If the collection of the Motarpha be now taken off our hands, the last mentioned would leave off the cultivation of our Jeroyiti.
"As both the ryots paying Motarpha and the tenants cultivating the Jeroyiti lands, for which we pay rent to the Government, are at
