1841.] Roree in Kit y poor. 403 



The same individual works as carpenter and bricklayer; a clever 

 fellow earns one rupee a day, and an indifferent workman four anas and 

 his food, or two anas in lieu of food : the common hire is 4, 8, and 10 

 anas a day and food, but those who receive 12 anas and 1 rupee find their 

 own. These wages equal what is paid in Savoy, where a carpenter or 

 wheelwright has two francs or Is. 8d. a day. There is no Nirkh or 

 price current fixed by the state ; every carpenter pay two pys of his 

 daily earnings to the khulatree or head of his trade, who is chosen for 

 superior ability. The Governor sometimes confirms the appointment, 

 but it is not necessary to render it valid, and the khulatree is exempted 

 from the shop tax which is levied on other carpenters ; the tax is taken 

 irregularly, and the amount uncertain. The rich and the young generally 

 pay more than the poor and infirm, and the cess varies throughout the 

 country under different Princes and Jalgeerdars. 



A labouring carpenter with small business requires the following tooU : — 



R. A. P. 



An iron adge weighing If seer, 3 



A small hand-saw weighing f of a seer (6 or 8 anas) 8 



A chisel weighing § a seer, 8 



A gimlet or borer, turned as in India with a bow and 



leather thong, 4 



A small hammer weighing J of a seer, 4 



A plane, 2 



A file weighing^ of a seer, 8 



Rs. 5 2 

 A man, with extensive business, who keeps a shop, has four or five saws 

 which cost together 5 or 6 rupees. A two handed saw weighing § of a 

 seer costs 2 rupees, and he has other tools in the like proportion but of 

 bad iron, and not better made nor more expensive than the tools of the 

 poorest carpenter. 



Labourers, porters, coolies, grasscutters, gare-walas, who mix mud for 

 building and plaster walls, earn 8 and 10 pys a day f.om the British, and 

 5 pys from shopkeepers and husbandmen, if employed at hard work, but 

 the Governor and principal officers of Roree give 4 pys, and the prince 

 3 pys. 



Sun dried bricks are formed in wooden moulds, and the makers earned 

 in 1838, 4 anas a day and double the sum in 1839; two more are required 

 for the process, and will prepare two thousand in a day at the cost of 

 1 rupee j in 1838, they sold double the quantity for the same sum. 



