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by Government. The though the bhdgddrs too are superior holders. But the lands of the village are measured and assessed, and the result is fixed as the revenue payable by the bhagddrs, who are generally allowed to realize from the cultivators more than the sum paid to Government, on the supposition that they have to let poor lands at less than the Government rates. Again, some villages are held by landlords of the higher class called triehwdsis, each of whom pays for one or more villages a lump sum, settled by the State annually or from time to time, which does not as a rule interfere with the internal fiscal not considered in the gross amount assessed
bhdgddri tenure
somewhat
is
different,
arrangements.
A
seldom ousted for failure to pay the assessment. His liable to be sold, but if he has no saleable property, he is suffered to pay by instalments. There is no rule as to the liability of land to attachment and sale for private debt. Implements of agriculture (including carts and oxen), also seed - grain, clothes and ornaments in ordinary use, and food sufficient for a reasonable time, belonging to a cultivator and his family, are exempted from the process cultivator
is
private property
is
of a civil court.
Means of
Cotnmunication.
Railway passes through the
—The Bombay, Baroda, and Central India enters the two — points,
territory at
it
first
Navsari Division south of Surat, where are two stations, Navsari and Billimora; north of Broach the railway again passes through Baroda
from Miyagam to the Mahi
which section are the There are 59 miles of railway on the 2' 6" gauge belonging to the Gaekwar’s Government, namely, a line from Baroda to Chandod, with branch lines from Dabhoi to Badarpur and to Miajagam. The Western Rajputana State Railway There are only passes through the northern division of the State.
territory
stations of
Miyagam,
Itola,
about 20 miles of made road. description
exist
all
river,
in
Baroda, and Bajwa.
Common
country tracks of the rudest
over the State, but most of them are barely year,
owing to
utterly impassable during the
monsoon
practicable for cart traffic during eight
the sandy nature of the
soil,
and
months of the
except for horses, pack-bullocks, and camels. Administration,
estimated at
etc.
— The
18,232,
revenue, ;;^85o,637
(2)
total
revenue of the State in 1880-81 was
—
composed of the following items Customs, ;!^93,8i5; (3) Taxes on
(i)
Land
caste
and
^30,897 ; (4) Abkdri, including opium, ^41,835 ; (5) Forests, ^^695 1 ; (6) Tribute from Native States of Gujarat and Kathiawar, Of the 4754 ^63,767 ; (7) Justice, £2S,$12 ; (8) Miscellaneous,
trade,
^
-
was realized during the year, leaving a balance of only ;^5o,54o; the greater portion of this balance being on account of land revenue. The land revenue is paid in four instalments, viz. ist December, 4 total
estimated revenue, _;2Ci,o67,692
