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LAND BI?VI?NUB IN MADRAS 459 Rent varies in Madras between very wide limits; during the dis- cussion of the Bengal Rent Bill in the iceroy's Legislative Council six years ago, it was alleged that rent was found to vary (in its proportion to gross produce) in Bengal between seven and seventy per cent. I believe that the Government rent charge in Madras varies between five and twenty-five per cent. of the gross produce, and does not on the average thereof. exceed fifteen per cent. H. ST. A. GOODRICH.
