2 : yal asiaii ; = : ::i:y, 



1 S 9 



The 7" 7":':^. the B: ikera^e in T : and Jaggery, 



and the Toll at Ferries, were all inconsiderable in amount, 

 arising from want of proper and faith " 

 deal of favoritism and in g seems 

 farming of these dues. 



The Stamp duty on Cloth wovei 

 £800 a year, but there appears to 1 

 carried on at Batticaloa, nor indeed els 

 into this branch of the revenue, and 

 constantly complained to Grovemmen 



The Salt Pans were at one time in the exclusive hands of 

 the Government ; the sale of the salt being on their account. 

 Afterwards the privilege of retailing it in particular districts, 

 and at certain fixed profits, was bestowed upon a number of 

 poor widows, for their support. During the Government of 

 Falck, this system was changed, inasmuch as the right of sale 

 was then farmed out to renters, and the proceeds of this rent 

 appropriated to the maintenance of the widows of poor persons, 

 chiefly old servants of the Company. At that rime the Renters 

 paid the Government fanams the parah, and were allowed 

 to retail it at fanams ; there were, however, certain privi- 

 leged persons and classes \ 

 Salt from the E enters at 5 



At these rates, it may 

 not yield anj- large sum. 

 total realized by all the Sa 

 forms matter of surprise th 

 little by this monopoly, sine 

 furnished to their hostile 

 whom we m:_ht have exp* 



iful management: a great 

 i to have existed in the 



i at Jafina yielded about 



ewhere. Much abusecrept 

 the farmer of the rent 



it Pars of the Islaml. It certainly 

 at the Dutch should have made so 

 3e a great portion of the supply was 



jcted they would have raised the 



