Boh è — literally “the fruits of the manure” — was the name given in Atjeh to the first harvest of a pepper garden laid out by a free planter, which fell wholly to the planter himself.
Context
Under the second form of the pepper planter’s contract, in which the planter applied directly and independently to the oeléëbalang for ground and a pangkaj of twenty guilders per thousand vines, neither the pangkaj nor the cost of tools and clothing supplied had to be repaid, and the entire proceeds of the first harvest fell to the planter as boh è. Only thereafter was the garden divided in two (mawaih tano or mawaih plah tano), the pangkaj-giver as a rule leaving his half in the planter’s hands on mawaih asoë terms — so that after four years the planter enjoyed in total three-quarters of the return of the whole plantation.
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Source
Het recht op den grond in Atjeh, by D. W. N. de Boer, dated Scheveningen, November 1931, pp. 59-80. Offprint DLP-141, Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, ‘s-Gravenhage; Bibliotheek KITLV accession 0060 4460 60 081470 428.