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"grass-cutters " are preferred to purchasing the daily 

 supply, local hillmen should be employed, who will 

 arrange the matter with their neighbours, and not 

 men brought up from the plains of India. In most 

 hill stations passes or licences have to be obtained 

 to cut grass. In every Indian station there is an 

 official price-list of country produce published, and 

 should any dispute arise as to the rates charged, it 

 is as well to obtain it from the native magistrate 

 (tehsildar), whose decision in such matters is usually 

 accepted as final, and which generally saves an im- 

 mense amount of trouble. 



