318 SEVENTH REPORT—1837. 
_ taxes on trades are fixed on a scale of annas relatively to the 
visible means and profits of the tradespeople. The anna is 
considered equivalent to 34 rupees. The trades are taxed from 
ath anna to 2 annas, or 7 rupees, which is the highest sum 
for one shop. 
The highest tax on one weaver is half an anna, or 12 rupee ; 
oilman, highest rate one anna, or 3} rupees ; the sdddler, dyer, 
and butcher, at half an anna each, or 1% rupee; fishermen, 
dealers in sweet potatoes, and makers of bridles, 1 rupee each ; 
the community of braziers, 10 rupees. All the Momeens who 
are Moosulmans and weavers of turbands taxed in the lump at 
25 rupees ; shepherds at 14 rupees. These taxes are not raised 
on any systematic principles of application. 
Bullooteh Tax.—The Bullooteh is a tax levied on the per- 
sons called the Bara Bullooteh, or artizans and functionaries 
twelve in number, who are important personages in the village 
constitution. 
The taxes on the Bullooteh are generally deemed to be on the 
exercise of their profession; but this is a mistake, as the 
astrologer and Guruw, or sweeper of the village temple, pay 
Bullooteh tax, although not artizans; and I have known indivi- 
duals of a trade (in one instance a boy the survivor of a family) 
paying from 20 to 25 rupees per annum, which they could not 
possibly do from the gain of their handicrafts. 
The fact is, the Bara Bullooteeh have annual grain fees from the 
cultivators ; and government, in former times, deeming these 
fees more than commensurate with the value of the labours per- 
formed, took a part of them in money. The taxes on the Bul- 
lootehdar, are therefore indirectly derived from the land; some 
of these taxes fall very heavily. At Wangee three carpenters 
pay 36 rupees Bullooteh tax, Wurgut 9 rupees, and house tax 3 
rupees for three houses. At Tellegaon, Turruff, Paubul, the 
Bullooteh taxes are yet higher: carpenter 50 rupees, shoe- 
makers 60 rupees, Guruw or sweeper of the temple 30 rupees, 
barber 24 rupees, washerman 8 rupees, Moolana, or Moosul- 
man priest, who also gets Bullooteh, 8 rupees; but the culti- 
vators are numerous, and the lands of Tellegaon under cultiva- 
tion extensive: The Bullootehdar on the whole therefore reaps 
a rich harvest, in spite of government participating in his fees, 
from the cultivators. It is unnecessary to multiply instances of 
the bearing of the Sahyer taxes. Taxes for the sale of spirituous 
liquors, and the amount of customs or transit duties, rarely 
appear in village papers, as those branches of the revenue are 
mostly farmed. 
My limits do not permit me to give a detailed statement of 
the manner in which village accounts are kept under a native 
