Generally they are not entered at all in the rent-rolls; and when they are entered, it is at less rates than are paid for the other lands.

The difference between the no rent, or less rates, and the full rates is part of their perquisites.

These lands are generally shared out among the members of the family as hereditary possessions.
_January_ 23, 1850 .-- Behta, ten miles, over a plain of fine muteear soil.

The greater part of the surface is, however, covered by a low palas jungle.

The jungle remains, because no one will venture to lay out his capital in rooting up the trees and shrubs, and bringing the land under culture where the fruits of his industry, and his own life and those of his family, would be so very insecure, and because the powerful landholders around require the jungles to run to when in arms against the Government officers, as they commonly are.