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Are assessed at the same rate as Mango Trees.

Are assessed at the same rate as Mangosteen Trees.

— The Long assessment is made under ordinary circumstances once only in each reign, and plantations or Lands having once been assessed at the above mentioned rates, continue to pay the same annual sum, which is endorsed on the certificate of Tenure, (subject to the revisions granted in case of the destruction of the trees by drought or flood) until the next assessment is made, regardless of the new trees that may have been planted in the interval, or the old trees that may have died off. When the time for a new assessment arives, a fresh account of the trees is taken, those that have died since the former one being omitted, and those that have been newly planted being inserted, provided they have attained the above stated dimensions, otherwise they are free of charge.

2. — Trenched or raised Lands planted with the following eight sorts of Fruit-trees are subject to an annual assessment calculated on the Trees grown on the Lands in the following manner, that is to say:—