3y5 HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL 



All the otlier cliokis were leased out yearly, but the rent paid every six 

 months : the revenue realized from Import and Export Duties may be 

 ayeraged at fifty thousand rupees per annum. 



Ferries. — There were five public Ferries in the Province, one at Te'k 

 Naf, one at Chukadong, alias Babadong Ghat, one at Lengrakkado, one at 

 Mongbomay, and one at Radong Nyongbong Kado, which were all farmed out. 



The revenue derived from the Ferries, amounted to about Sicca Rupees 

 four hundred per annum. 



The seventeen large Nullahs viz, the Kaladyne, Uskalyng, Namada, 

 Belyn KheoUy Mi Kheon, Temma Kheon, Yan Kheojiy Anuk Yan Kheon, 

 Trendan KheoUy Murasay Kheon, Limru Kheon, Pymarang Kheon, Ashay Lini' 

 rii Kheon, Taraway Kheon, Jong Kheon, Talak Kheon and Yiianaway Kheon, 

 were also farmed out, with the privilege of a monopoly of all the bees' wax, 

 timber, tobacco, cotton, and bamboos, grown on the hills, and also of the 

 Fujung, a sort of twilled cloth made by the hill people, and much prized by 

 the inhabitants of the plains. 



The revenue derived from this source, averaged about Sicca Rupees 

 eight thousand per annum. 



Mint, — The Mint was in Aracan, and any person was allowed to take bul- 

 lion to it, for the purpose of being coined, paying five per cent to the state : 

 the process of coining was very tedious j the silver, after being melted, was cut 

 into small pieces, then weighed and beat out to the proper size : the coin was 

 then placed between two dyes, and with a few strokes of a heavy hammer, the 

 impression was effected i when the whole of the establishment was employed, 

 they could with difficulty make two thousand rupees per day. 



