the perfons who made ufe of them, and they fhall be difmiffed from their offices, and be turned out of the country.

If any perfon who finds a ftray horfe or bullock bearing the Government - mark, shall detain it in his own poffeffion, you fhall punish fuch perfon.

55. If any perfon belonging to the army fhall take up his abode in your district, without having a pafs from Government, he shall be seized, and information thereof fhall be fent to the Huzzoor, from whence whatever order is iffued in the matter shall be obeyed. Merchants and people of the country are not to be stopped because they have not paffes; but public fervants, and other perfons are not to be fuffered to go without one: the obfervance of this rule is to be enforced at every village.

56. You are to ascertain the exact distance between every town and village throughout your district, and the number of wells in which there is water, and the number of thofe that are dry on the roads; as alfo

what thickets, hills, ftreams, embankments, plains, and tanks there are in the way, and what particular spots are fit for halting-places for an army. An account of these particulars is to be made, and kept in the Dufteer, and one copy thereof is to be tranfmitted to the Huzzoor, and one copy to your Cutchery.

57. Whenever the bullocks employed in the service of Government fhall be fent into your district for Kulthee, if there is Kulthee ready in the Cubah,* you are, without a moment's lofs of time, to fill it into bags, and deliver it: and if the grain shall be in the villages, you are, in the course of five or fix days, to have it brought in, and delivered in bags, taking a receipt for it; and the bullocks are to be immediately dispatched with the grain. In cafe of a fingle day's delay, you are to confider yourself as anfwerable for the hire of thefe cattle. When you dispatch the bullocks, you shall, at the fame time, write information of the dif

*Principal town.

tance which the army may be from your district.

58. A commiffion upon the fummabundy of your district, (exclufive of the Enaum, Deoftaun, Akrar, &c. lands,) of a quarter of a fanam Kunteeroy upon every pagoda is allowed, for difcharging the pay of the Aumil, Peifchears, Beafps,+ and Munni

caurs.

**

It is expected that you keep up the full establishment of Munnicaurs and Beafps, and pay them their fixed allowances, and taking the remainder for your own wages, fulfil your duty. If you keep more or lefs than the establishment of Beafps and Munnicaurs, you fhall refund the difference of the wages. The Aumil, and other officers in the revenue department, fhall not trade; if they do, they will be made to forfeit double the amount of the concern in which they are found to be engaged.

*

Suppofing the pagoda to be worth 13 fanams kunteeroy, the commiffion for the payment of the revenue officers, and establishments mentioned in this article, is fomething lefs than 2 per cent on the

revenue.

+ Difmounted horsemen.

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59. Rules to be observed in purchasing articles that are required for the service of Government:

A monthly price-current fhall be made with the affiftance of the Sithee, Wurtuk, Cotwaul, &c., for the Bazars in your diftrict, which price-current fhall be figned and fealed by you.

If Koot/bee* fells in the Bazar, by the price current, at 15 Deks for a Fanam, you̟ fhall take it at the rate of 17, and pay the money to the merchant, taking his receipt; and where the established price of rice, tooir, moung, &c. fhall be 10 Deks for a Fanam, you fhall take 11. And the following are the rules to be observed in the purchase of articles which are fold by weight:

If the price of Ghee, oil, and iron utenfils, &c. fhall be at the rate of 2 pagodas per uttul, you shall deduct a Fanam out of †

every Pagoda, and pay the purchase money;

one Fanam out of every Pagoda fhall alfo be

deducted from the price of cloths, fheets, blankets, thread, &c., and the purchase money shall be paid to the merchant, taking his receipt specifying the particulars.

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60. You are to keep up an establishment of bullocks in the fervice of Government in your district, at the rate of 2 bullocks for every thousand pagodas of your fummabundy; and you are to allow one pagoda Kunteeroy per month for the hire of each: whatever goods or articles are required for the service of Government, are to be tranfported upon these bullocks, every one of which is to carry a load of full deks, or a weight of 6 uttuls; and these bullocks, when conveying goods, are to travel at the rate of 4 Sultaunee kurohs a day, and at the rate of 6 kurons a day when returning unloaded. You are to provide pads and faddles, and one man to every two bullocks for the care of them; and you are never to keep these bullocks unemployed, but be constantly and fucceffively fending them with loads of goods.

Whenever these bullocks fhall be wanted