402 Roree in Khypoor. [No. 113. 



Bankers and money changers, Rs. 8 per annum (some of them are ex- 

 empted from the cess.) 



Goldsmiths and jewellers, If Rs. per annum. 



Dyers of silk and cotton stuffs (Khombatee), Rs. 5 per annum. 



Cleaners and polishers of swords, matchlocks, &c , (Tewura,) Rs. 10 

 per annum. 



Dealers in pedlery (muharee furosh), such as combs, pictures, rings, 

 mirrors, beads, boxes, and glass bangles. Wholesale fishmongers, and 

 steersmen of boats, Rs. 3 per annum. 



One distiller (a Hindoo), Rs. 3 per annum. 



Tailors and tinkers, \ Rupee each person per annum. 



Ox Butchers, (2 persons) each, 17 Rs. per annum. 



Manufacturers of Indigo (2 persons), 18 Rs. per annum. 



160 silk looms, 900 Rs per annum. 



Fishermen, without reference to the form of their nets and mode of 

 fishing, together 100 Rs. per annum. I have noticed the manner of levy- 

 ing the cess in the Journ. As. Soc, No. 



Retail fishmongers, five fish per basket. 



Wood cutters, together Rs. 100 per annum. 



Goat butchers, together Rs. 95 per annum. 



Roree contains seven families of tailors and four of ironsmiths, all of 

 whom deserted their homes in 1839, for the British bazar at Sukhur to es- 

 cape the shop lax, other tradesmen and artisans threatened to follow their 

 example, and Meer Roostum was obliged to suspend the obnoxious tax, but 

 continues to levy it in Khyrpoor. 



There are no brass and copper smiths in the town, nor makers of 

 blankets, canvass sacks and bags, and leather vessels for oil. The two 

 last are made in Khyrpoor and Shikarpoor. 



There is one tinner of copper vessels, and four polishers and cleaners 

 of five arms, and a Kular-khanu, kept by a Hindoo of the Bhata caste, 

 who distils liquor from dates both dry and fresh. 



The number of water bearers (Panee bhurne-wala) amounts to ten 

 families, and before the arrival of the British they sold dillas or earthen 

 vessels, each containing about twenty seers of river water, in Roree, 

 for a copper pys. Now they only give seven dillas, and earn about four 

 pijs* a day. 



* In 1839 the Sohrab rupee was equal to 51 copper pys or about two shillings 

 English Currency. 



