ON THE STATISTICS OF DUKHUN. 299 
Number of taxable 
ee Amount of taxes. Average pe ' 
Sahyer. | Bullooteh.| ~ 
gr. rs. | rup. gr. rs. 
rup. 
Poona ..seeseeeees 14,551 8481 | 231,262 1 00/10... 16 
Abmednugeur 9,287 4980 59,007 3 78 | 4... 54 
Collectorates. 
| | | 
Dharwar ......... 29,046 | 2811 |334,668 ... 45 | 10 2 02 
Khandesh ...... 9,147 | 2348 |181,711 ... ... 11 1 83 
It is consequently found, that Ahmednuggur, with a greater 
number of taxable persons in the Sahyer branch than in Khan- 
desh, averages a payment per head of little more than one- 
third of what the shopkeepers, trades, and Bullooteh pay in 
Khandesh; and the tolerable uniformity in the individual 
averages of the collectorates of Poona, Dharwar, and Khan- 
desh, proves that their Sahyer taxes are raised equitably. I 
have to notice, that in village papers there is a want of uni- 
formity in the classification of the extra cesses, sometimes 
articles being placed under the heads of Sahyer which bear upon 
the land, and others again being classed with the land which are 
money commutations for labour, 
From the definite character of the elements in the preceding 
table, great confidence may be placed in the correctness of de- 
ductions from it. The numbers of taxable persons in 1827—28 
__ were supplied to me by the collectors, and the amount paid is 
> 
& 
_ extracted from their Jummabundy settlements for that year. 
Customs.—The customs vary considerably in the different 
 collectorates; those of Poona, being above 12 per cent. of its 
whole reyenue, may be looked upon as high, but their mag- 
nitude manifests a favourable commercial industry. Contrary 
_ to expectation, Dharwar, which has indications of internal 
_ comparative prosperity, has the lowest revenue from customs, 
with a greater population, a greater revenue, and falling lighter 
upon the people than in any of the other collectorates, and with 
more than ten times the number of manufacturers * to be found 
in Poona and Khandesh, nevertheless shows a commercial 
return 52 per cent. less than that of Poona, and even 254 per 
cent. below the exhausted province of Khandesh. It seems 
anomalous that the proportional per--centage of the customs on 
the whole revenue in Ahmednuggur and Khandesh should be 
* Thirteen thousand and forty-five weavers. 
