412 Rorec in K It y poor. [No. 113. 



Meer Roostura had no voice in his appointment and his transactions are 

 confined to the town and cantonment. The proximity of a large military- 

 force to Roree, infused such bustle and activity into the heretofore quiet 

 town that the Government Dhurwaee did not find his receipts diminished 

 by the interloper. The regulations framed by the Bunneahs of the 

 British cantonment do not oblige them to employ the Weighman, nor 

 do they avail themselves of his services in their transactions with the 

 country-people, but they are valuable in other ways, and they fixed his 

 remuneration at two pys in every kora and company's rupee worth of 

 grain, vegetables, and fruit they purchased in the town of Roree. 



The Kotwai fulfills the same duty in this country as the chowkeedar 

 or watchman in India. There are five in Roree, who receive each 2 

 rupees a month, and one is nominated to each of the chousool or beats 

 into which the great bazar is divided. The grain market, and other 

 quarters of the town are without public watchmen and the inhabitants 

 protect themselves. The Kotwals remain during the day with the Kardar 

 from whom they receive orders. They collect oil from the shop-keepers 

 of the great bazar to feed a lamp which is burnt at night in each watch 

 house, and they usually get small presents of money and food from the 

 citizens on occasion of a marriage, and are sometimes invited to the nup- 

 tial feast. 



The Moohurrir or writer is either a Moosulman or Hindoo and one is 

 appointed to each town. His stipend at Roree is 12 rupees a month. 



There are several muhtas attached to the offices of Kardar and Izardar 

 to keep the accounts of revenue and commerce and record offences against 

 the law. There are also ten soldiers under the Kardar's orders ready to 

 proceed to any quarter of the town which may require their presence. 

 They are an indolent half-armed band much addicted to the use of bhung 

 or hemp juice, and each receives a stipend of from 2 to 10 rupees a month. 



The mortar of the oil mill used in Roree is the trunk of a tree seven feet 

 in circumference, hollowed to the depth of eighteen inches and terminating 

 in a cylinder. The diameter of the cavity at top is twelve inches, 

 and it is calculated to hold a naree, or nine seers of seed. The mill is set 

 in motion by a single camel or bullock which is changed at noon, and the 

 quantity of oil that two camels or bullocks worked alternately, can express 

 in a day, is about twelve seers, the produce of four narees of seed. Nine 

 seer of seed yield by pressure about one-third oil, very rarely a fourth. 

 Mustard seed ( surshuf) sold in the Roree bazar in 18 .9 at 4 rupees the 

 mun, or 60 rupees the khurwar of fifteen muns, and the same price in the 

 country. After a bad harvest the price rises to five rupees a mun. In the 



