Mughal Administration c15.s1.t1.32

c15.s1.t1.32

Fourteenth.—Concerning lands under fixed cash revenue: If a man builds a house on his land, he should pay the rent as fixed before; and the same thing if he plants on the land trees that do not bear fruit. If he turns an arable land, on which a fixed revenue was assessed for cultivation [123a] into a garden, and plants fruit-trees on the whole tract without leaving any open spaces between [fit for cultivation], take Rs. 2¾, which is the maximum rate for gardens, although the trees are not yet bearing fruit. But in the case of grape and almond trees, while they do not bear fruit take the customary revenue only, and after they have begun to bear fruit, take Rs. 2¾, provided that the produce of one legal *bigha*, which means 45 × 45 Shah Jahani yards, or 60 × 60 Canonical yards, amounts to Rs. 5½ or more. Otherwise take half the actual produce [of the trees.] If the price of the produce amounts to less than a quarter-rupee,—as in the case when grain sells at 5 Shah Jahani seers a rupee and the Government share of the crop amounts to one seer only(?)*—you should not take less than this [quarter-rupee.]