316 SEVENTH REPORT—1837. 
Milch cattle, fowls, mango trees, and pumpkin beds respect- 
ively continue to supply the means to pay the taxes for Ghee, 
thickened sour milk, fowls, and fruits. Some of the Puttees 
involved personal labour, such as those for grass cut and fur- 
nished gratis to government, for firewood, for dinner plates 
composed of leaves sewn together, for monsoon great coats 
made of wicker work and leaves, and for sticks to pound rice 
with. The Rabta Mahr, spoken of under “ tenures,”’ is in lieu 
of personal services. Some of them in their name indicate their 
professedly temporary character, such as the Eksalee, or for 
one year, and yet they have been perpetuated. The Shadee or 
marriage cess at Angur, Pergunnah Mohol, and Ashtee Per- 
gunnah Oondurgaon, amounted to nearly 12 per cent. of the 
whole revenue of the towns, and could only have been for a 
passing event. The Wurgut at Wangee and Ashtee, which 
was raised by the village authorities for village expenses, is one 
of these unjustifiable taxes. At Ashtee, the scene of the battle 
of Ashtee and capture of the Sattarah princes, in 1818, the 
Wurgut was 1405 rupees, in a revenue of 6386 rupees, or 22 per 
cent.; of this sum government took 900 rupees, leaving 505 
rupees to the villagers for their expenses. ‘This Puttee at the 
town of Kurjut, Pergunnah Kurreh Wullet, is 6 annas per rupee, 
or 373 per cent. on the land and Sahyer assessments, and Bur- 
goojur or tax on betel gardens. At Rawgaon, the Wurgut 
amounted to 144 annas per rupee on the land assessments and 
taxes, or more than 90 per cent. The Kaateh Mornawul, or 
pecuniary punishment, inflicted on a village for a Mamlehdar’s 
running thorns into his feet on perambulating its lands, should 
have had some limits in its duration. ‘The Puttees for sturdy 
Gosawees, Havildars, Ramooses, Naikwarees, should have 
ceased when there were no longer Gosawees to beg with arms 
in their hands, or Havildars, Naiks, and Ramooses to exercise 
respectively certain functions. 
The fractional apportioning the above taxes to the cultiva- 
tors, involving also the compound operation of providing reduced 
shares for the privileged classes, the fractional deductions, 
in a certain ratio in case of remissions, the fluctuating amount 
of the individual shares dependent on the fixed commutation 
cesses, being yearly divisible amongst a variable numberof cul- 
tivators, the mutable character of the Seerusteh Butta, which 
necessarily changes with the yearly varying total assessments 
of the village, and which Seerusteh Butta is not determinable 
until all other assessments be fixed, combine great evils, and, 
unless to the most practised, patient, and persevering investi- 
gator, present an inextricable mass of confusion. The evils 
