This shows how bhum was extorted in these periods of turbulence, and that this individual gift was as much to save them from the effects of the Maharaja’s violence as to gain protection from that of others. Footnote 3.a.38: A seer on each maund of produce. Footnote 3.a.39: The labour of two ploughs (_hal_). _Halma_ is the personal service of the husbandman with his plough for such time as is specified. _Halma_ is precisely the detested _corvée_ of the French régime. “Les _corvées_ sont tout ouvrage ou service, soit de corps ou de charrois et bêtes, pendant le jour, qui est dû à un seigneur. Il y avait deux sortes de _corvées_: les réelles et les personnelles, etc. Quelquefois le nombre des _corvées_ était fixe: mais, le plus souvent, elles étaient à volonté du seigneur, et c’est ce qu’on appelait _corvées à merci_” (Art. ‘Corvée,’ _Dict. de l’anc. Régime_). Almost all the exactions for the last century in Mewar may come under this latter denomination. Footnote 3.a.40: A great variety of oppressive imposts were levied by the chiefs during these times of trouble, to the destruction of commerce and all facility of travelling. Everything was subject to tax, and a long train of vexatious dues exacted for “repairs of forts, boats at ferries, night-guards, guards of passes,” and other appellations, all having much in common with the ‘Droit de _Péage_’ in France. “Il n’y avait pas de ponts, de gués, de chaussées, d’écluses, de défilés, de portes, etc., où les féodaux ne fissent payer un droit à ceux que leurs affaires ou leur commerce forçaient de voyager” (_Dict. de l’anc. Régime_). Footnote 3.a.41: The privileges of our Rajput chieftains on the marriages of their vassals and cultivating subjects are confined to the best dishes of the marriage feast or a pecuniary commutation. This is, however, though in a minor degree, one of the vexatious claims of feudality of the French system, known under the term _noçages_, where the seigneur or his deputy presided, and had the right to be placed in front of the bride, “et de chanter à la fin du répas, une chanson guillerette.” But they even carried their insolence further, and "poussèrent leur mépris pour les villains (the agricultural classes of the Rajput system) jusqu’à exiger que leurs chiens eussent _leur couvert_ auprès de la mariée, et qu’on les laissât manger sur la table" (Art. ‘Noçages,’ _Dict. de l’anc. Régime_). Footnote 3.a.42: December. Footnote 3.a.43: The Raja of Kotah. Footnote 3.a.44: Commander of the forces and regent of Kotah. Footnote 3.a.45: Officers of the land revenue. Footnote 3.a.46: Land accountants. Footnote 3.a.47: The mercantile class. Footnote 3.a.48: Literally ‘good behaviour.’ Footnote 3.a.49: An agricultural tax. Footnote 3.a.50: Tax for registering. Footnote 3.a.51: