This annual inquiry has sometimes been mistaken by careless passers-by for an annual reassessment of each ryot's holding.
The law, however, enabled provinces most heavily burdened by land tax to accelerate their portion of the survey, and to profit by the reassessment of the tax on the new basis.
Frequent reassessment is essential to titrate treatment of pain that rapidly waxes and wanes.
In this connection it should be stated that during 1899 the reassessment of the land tax, a much-needed reform, was seriously taken.
In such cases the final mark awarded for the module will reflect the degree of reassessment is allowed.
