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woodland, are demarcated as the site or reserve of each mand, CHAP. XIII, 

 the total number being about seventy. On this the Todas pay an PART I. 

 assessment of 2 annas per acre, i.e., the lowest assessment under re7en^de 

 the present settlement. This is the only tax, which is about History. 

 double the rate of the ancient " pillu-vari'^ or grass tax, now paid 

 by them, the buffalo tax having been abolished with the Moturpha 

 taxes in or about 1850. The ancient grazing tax was levied at 

 the rate of one-tenth bullah or two-fifths of an acre to each buffalo. 



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