1 ftEVENUB. 525
2 coitoras ; the produce of the royal demesne ; the produce of fines
3 and forfeitures ; the profits of the nlinU aod perhaps some other
4 trifling receipts.
5 The provisions supplied to the J\int;'s honseliold, iind part oi his
6 armv, by the people through whose country he passes, even when they
7 are not subject to the payment of revenue* must also be reckoned
8 among the resources of the state.
9 Besides the above, another less fixed brandh of revenue is created
10 by accepting of the commutations in money for the troops i^bidi
11 <>U£^ to be fiifiiiihed by pafdoilar districto aod tribes, cities were
12 at dl times levied from Hsnkiiiis on their appointment to profitable
13 districts* and in these nnsettfcid timesi an unavovred profit is derived
14 from the sale of offices.
15 The land revenue is collected by the head man of each village and
16 paid in some cases thro^gjh the head of his tribes and in otheia
17 directlj to the Haukim or his i^gsnta. The Haukim generally farms
18 the revenue of his province from government, and lets out that of the
19 djatriots under him. Once a year, he gives in his accounts, which
20 pass Ihrough several officers before they receive the King*» approba-
21 tion. Tlie expences of management, the assigpiments tliat have been
22 fjiven on the province, the price of articles commissioned by the
23 King, and similar charges, are struck off, and the balance is either
24 sent to the treasury, or more fre<pn'iit Iv, (mlt rs, equal to its amount,
25 we given to the troops, and others wiio have claims on government.
26 Both in the course of the collections and of the pavments, wlieii
27 they are made in this last manner, great peculation is practised by
28 tly* Haukim*
29 The smaller provinces, under militaiy Sirdars, are not filmed.
30 The Kmg's principal expences are the payment of the army, the
31 hoosehold, the court estaMishment, and the dergy.
32 The expences of the army are small in conqMrison to its streng^
33 'from the nuipber of Tecods appropriated to tgnj^t^^in it.
34 The expences of the household are m some measure lightened by
35 the payment in grain, aheep^ and cattle, appropriated to that branch.
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