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 The! acreage rates so arrived at are given in the margin. Only four percent, of the wet land in the three taluks was assessed at the highest wet rate and only two per cent, of the dry land at the two highest dry rates. The percentages of the assessed area in each taluk assessed at each of the rates has been given in detail already on p. 100 and further figures will he found in the separate Appendix to this volume. The table tub joined shows at a glance the general effect of the survey and settlement on wet and dry land respectively in each of the three taluks ; namely, the difference in the cultivated area disclosed by the survey and the enhancement or reduction of the assessment brought about by the settlement : —

The increase in wet assessment here shown includes the charge for second crops. Double-crop land is charged a consolidated rate covering any number of crops which may be grown This consists of an addition to the single-crop assessment of one- third in the case of land under sources of irrigation placed in the first of the four groups mentioned above, one-fourth for that under second-class sources, one-fifth for third class and one-sixth for fourth class.

It had long been held that the dry land in Palkonda was over- assessed (nearly one half of the arable dry area was unoccupied at the time of the settlement) and that the wet land (only 660 acres of which was waste) bad been too leniently treated. In Sarvasiddhi, the former rates on both wet and dry land, which had been fixed during the time the taluk was zamindari land, were in many cases excessive.

Inams were lavishly granted in the district during the lax administration of the Musalmans, especially in the havili land.