A headman should be selected for each village. Over ten villages (or ten headmen) one superintendent should be appointed. Over two such superintendents there should be one officer. Above the latter should be appointed persons under each of whom should be a hundred villages; and above the last kind of officers, should be appointed men each of whom should given a thousand villages.
ग्रामस्याधिपतिः कार्यो दशग्राम्यास्तथा परः। द्विगुणायाः शतस्यैवं सहस्रस्य च कारयेत्॥