pottah

_Zerants_, or _Neiz_, are taken on a pottah or lease for five years, at the average rent of three rupees per biggah.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

Hastings: "I am therefore hopeful you will be kindly pleased to excuse me the five lacs now demanded, and that nothing may be demanded of me beyond the amount expressed in the pottah."

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

It is affirmed that the aumils and renters exact from the proprietors of the actual harvest a large increase in kind on their stipulated rent: that is, from those who hold their _pottah_ by the tenure of paying _one half_ of the produce of their crops, either _the whole_ without subterfuge, or a _large_ proportion of it by a _false measurement_ or other pretexts; and from those whose engagements are for

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

Fluffy cat say ‘Plz no call muh nuhmbah whale Iz ‘n teh pottah kthx’

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