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Jama 1 Munannmrah Khatun.
Receipts.
Expenditure.
Collected - - « -
Balance outstanding
Rs.
- 500
- 6,205
—
—
Total
- 6,705
Jama' Hannan.
Rs.
Collected ------- 55
Notes. — (1) Jama‘ Muradiyah.—Not known to be waqf when farms were given.
(2) Jama' Boshnaq Ahmad Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. .—Original farm of ’nqr cancelled, and direct collection
substituted. *
(3) Certain gardens mauquf to Imam al A'dham and Jama' Hannan were auctioned jointly
with some land mauquf to general auqaf funds. The money received has been
distributed as fairly as possible.
(4) Wheat converted at Rs. 200/— per ton and barley at Rs. 100/— per ton.
APPENDIX A 3.
Demands and Collections for 1917
Cash.
Demands.
Collections.
Outstandings.
Converted grain demands from land under direct
RS. A. P.
10,208 0 0
RS. A. P.
5,204 15 0
RS. A. P.
5,003 1 0
management.
Proceeds of farms -------
6,620 0 0
6,620 0 0
Rents of shops, etc. -------
1,915 2 0
1,491 10 0
523 8 0
Total . . .
18,743 2 0
13,316 9 0
5,526 9 0
The figures are those extracted by Jamil Effendi with arithmetic corrected and reduction of
Mahawil ‘uqr made. The accounts for 1917 have never been balanced or totalled. The grain
demands are known, but there is no record of the conversion rate, and no one knows what it was.
The gardens farmed last year for 6,620/- produced in 1918 13,905/-.
Mulhaqah of Jama' Khidr Beg and Jama' Munawwarah Khatun included.
APPENDIX B.
Office of the Assistant Political Officer, Hillah,
January, 1919.
Agricultural Compensation, Hillah Area, 1918.
A. General. —1. No land was acquired until February, when the crops were well advanced, so
that the fairest method of compensation was to pay on the estimated value of the crop less revenue.
No deductions were made on account of possible loss from hail, rain, or locusts, or for lessened expense
for labour. The method employed was to ascertain the area under each kind of crop by pacing or
eye, and to apply to that figure, first, the estimated outturn of that kind of crop and, second, the estimated
selling price of the grain or vegetable in question. The estimate of outturn was modified according
as the crop was good, bad, or indifferent, the standard taken in all cases being that of a good average
crop. Thus barley was estimated at Rs. 100/- per ton selling price, and the outturn per acre was
estimated at 800 kilos. Hence the gross value of a standard crop on one acre would be 80/-.
2. The difficulty of this system is to ascertain with reasonable accuracy either the outturn per
acre or the selling price. The method employed was to collect opinions from officials, cultivators,
landowners, etc., and so to arrive at a working arrangement. The standards finally settled are given
as an Appendix to this note, but they will certainly need modification. It is hopeless to expect
accuracy till prices settle down.