1850.] 



City of Aurungabad, 



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Aurungzebe's, and there is marked upon it also akbars of Soiuches, 

 and the Ilahee guz of 29 J inches; the length of one geerah, or three 

 fingers' breadth, is also cut upon this standard. It is the larger guz 

 of Aurungzebe that is supposed to be employed in measuring lands 

 in Berar and Aurungabad, the value of which is as follows: 2 guz 

 make a pand, and 20 pands a beegha, forming a square of 2 5 2 10 

 yards, or something less than half an acre. 



Another table of measurement is the following: 20 viswassa=l 

 viswa, 20 viswas=l pand, 120 pands=l chawoor. 



The linear measures employed are the Rusmee guz of 33f inches, 

 the cubit, and the English yard. 



The Rusmee guz is thus divided: 4 tuswassoo— 1 tussoo, 24 tus- 

 soo=l guz. 



This is the measure used generally for measuring timber, masonry, 

 and buildings. 



Cloth merchants divide this guz into the following: 3 fingers' 

 breadth = l geerah, 16 geerah=l guz. 



The cubit is divided into 12 tussoo. 



The English yard measure is used by Borahs who call it 

 waur. 



The export and import duties, together with various dues and 

 contracts, are stated to amount to rupees 65,913-11-6 for the 

 years 1846-47. The particulars of which are appended and em- 

 brace a period of twelve months from May to the following April. 

 These dues are farmed out to the highest bidder, who generally is 

 required to make an advance to government, in which case he is 

 allowed interest upon it at 2 per cent, per mensem. An allowance 

 of 12J per cent, upon the duties is assigned for the purpose of de- 

 fraying all attendant expenses. It is not unusual for the contract 

 tor to dispose of a portion of his contract to others, reserving for 

 himself such items as insure more certain gains, though with less 

 profits. The karoreguree in former days, I am told, generally 

 ranged from a lac to a lac and 15,000 rupees, since which it has 

 diminished to its present small amount, We may observe that in 



