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dunams of fig trees in an area called Kan‘an, ’”* and twenty-three dunams of field crop land
*74 The value of his properties was assessed at 12,500 kurus.
belonging to the village of Sa‘ir.
Khalil b. Shihada ‘Awd, who owned a few dunams less than ‘Abd al-Qadir, was the wealthiest
property holder in the village according to assessed property values. He did not claima
residence in 1876, but he registered a courtyard (‘arsa), three plots of field-crop land (70
dunams of grade-three land in Ard Hajar and 3.5 dunams of grade-3 land in Shi’b al-Faris), a
*”° The worth of his properties
three-dunam vineyard, and a three-dunam vegetable garden.
was assessed at 16,625 kurus.
As Chart 3.1 below indicates, however, the vast majority of Shuyukhi villagers registered
to themselves very little in the way of agricultural properties. Half the villagers who registered
agricultural properties claimed fewer than ten dunams. The village’s musha holdings were
comparatively meager as well. It was just 1,000 dunams of field-crop land. Unlike the villagers’
other lands, the location of this plot was not identified. Rather, in the “location” column, the
word musha was written. The Esas-1 Emlak further noted that the musha had recently been
*73 | have not been able to identify the location of either.
274 Fsas-1 Emlak entries # 13797, 13866 and, in Sa‘ir, entry # 13346.
*/ Esas-1 Emlak entries #13691, 13757, 13758, 13784, 13847, 13867. There were three grades of land in the
district: 1, 2, and 3. As defined in the Eml/ak register, these were high-quality (‘a/7), middle-quality (vasat)
and inferior (din). (See ‘Amaira musha summaries, Dura, entry #9283-9284) The vast majority of the
district’s lands were Grade 2 lands. Grade 3 lands were usually valued less than Grade 2 lands, and Grade 1
lands were usually valued higher. While these category definitions do not make clear the criteria for
determining land grades, obviously, they were related to factors such as fecundity of the soil, rockiness of
the area and, quite possibly, distance from a water source.
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