If the occupants of hill forts, trusting in the security of their fastnesses, should engage in freebooting, the generals, the faujdars, the feudatories, and the revenue collectors were directed to unite and effect a remedy. They were first to admonish the offenders, and if that proved unavailing, they were to take measures for inflicting chastisement upon them. Their country was to be laid waste, and the land was to be granted to jágírdárs, from whom the revenue officers were to make no demands. If the Imperial troops received any injury, a fine was to be imposed upon the offenders.
Whatever was levied from the raiyats was to be paid over to the treasurers, and they were to give receipts to the raiyats. The collectors were to remit the payments four times a month, and at the end of this time no balance was to be left unrealized from the raiyats. The raiyats were to be so treated that they should be willing to make their payments to the treasury voluntarily. Satisfactory security was to be taken from the disaffected and contumacious; and if the bail was not given, watchmen were to be placed over the crops, and the revenue was to be realized.
A descriptive account was to be drawn up of the assessment
of each individual, according to his cultivation and labour, and
the dates were not to be either postponed or anticipated. The
patwárí (accountant) of each village was to apportion [the
village] name by name, among the various subordinate agents,
and the collectors were to send the cash under the seal of the
patwárí to the treasurer. They were to be vigilant to prevent
oppression, and to treat each individual according to his deserts.
The treasurer was to draw up a statement of the mohurs, rupees,
and dáms according to the value indicated by their respective
names and impressions, and showing the value of the old coinages
in the new royal coins, so that the collectors and sarráfs might
be able to ascertain the respective values of old and new coins.
The La'l-i Jalálí of full weight and perfect touch was of the value
of 400 dáms. The Chahár-goshah (four-cornered) rupee was worth
forty dáms. The ordinary (dastúrí) ashrafí and the Akbar-sháhí
rupee, which had become deteriorated in use, were to be taken at
the following rates. If the ashrafí was only two birinj (grains of
rice) deficient, it was to be deemed of full value, and to be
received as equal to 360 dáms. If it was deficient from three
birinj to one surkh, it was to be reckoned at 355 dáms; if deficient
from a surkh to a surkh and a half, at 350 dáms. The
rupee not more than one surkh deficient was to be considered
of full value, and worth 39 dáms. If deficient one and a half
to two surkhs, it was worth 38 dáms. The La'l-i Jalálí of proper
touch and just weight; the Jalála rupee not more than from
one and a half to two surkhs deficient; old rupees of the Akbar-