to this effect be laid upon all the people of the district. 94. Heretofore Turmeric has been boiled with cow-dung. This is forbid, and it is ordered that in future Turmeric fhall be boiled with red oker throughout your dif trict. 95*. All the rules neceffary to be obferved are laid down in this code, and are to be adhered to. If any cafe fhall occur not provided for, requiring reference to the Huzzoor, let fuch reference be made; and the order iffued in confequence be obeyed. 96. The following rates are established for the purchase and fale of gold, filver, and copper, the obfervance of which you are to ftrictly enjoin to all fhopkeepers, fhroffs, and traders, in your diftrict. And whenever these articles are purchased for Government, they are to be taken at 1 or The original article bearing this No. appears to have been at firft omitted, and at laft mifplaced, by the Perfian copyift. It ought properly to have been included in the 125th article. 2 Tahas under this rate; and as the value of the gold happens to be greater or less by the affay, fo fhall the price be greater or lefs, in the proportions hereunder fixed: 97. Whenever sheep belonging to Government are kept to graze, you fhall every year cause them to be fhorn; and you are to receive charge of their wool from the Derogha of the Imerut Mihil, with a specification of its weight, and are to give a re * Degrees of purity, Touckes. + Every four. ceipt for it. This wool you are to deliver to Nadaufs, at fixed wages, to work it into the best felt, and are to fend the felt through your Cutchery to the Huzzoor. If good felt cannot be made, you are then to forward the wool to your Cutchery, and take a receipt for it. 98. Such of the cattle and sheep as have got the rot, you fhall deliver to dealers in leather, and cause them to tan and prepare the leather, which you are to take for Government, and transmit it to your Cutchery; and you shall let the tanners take the flesh of the animals inftead of other pay, which you are not to allow them. 99. Heretofore merchants and traders under this Government have been accustomed to go to the dependancies of Cheenapatam to purchase falt and other articles. All intercourse with that province is now forbid and you are to notify to the mer *Cotton cleaners means here workmen who make felt, woollen-drapers. + Madras. chants, that falt abounds in Khofbaulpore, Kooriaul, Dhonavir, Merjaun, Angola, and other places at the foot of the Ghauts, dependent on Nagore, and in the dependancies of Calicut; and direct them to go to whichever of these places is nearest to that of their residence, for the purchase of falt, and not to go to the dependancies of Cheenapatam. If any merchant, in difobedience of this order, shall privately go into the Cheenapatam province, for the purchase of salt, &c., you fhall, after enquiry, feize his Zindigaunee with his cattle, and also the falt, for Government; and moreover fine the offender, and threaten him fo as to deter him from the like offence in future. * If merchants belonging to Cheenapatam province fhall come into the dependancies of this Government, for the purchase or fale of goods, falt, &c., you shall make them prifoners, and feize their cattle and * Should be Zindigee, but copied from the ori ginal. F |