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Gondii! and JIundul. — Taxes on musical instruments paid by 

 musicians. 



Tij Bazaree. — A tax on hacksters not regular shopkeepers. 



Ware Jcaree. — A tax on the daily collection of interest. 



Mutchee gooltee. — A tax on fishermen for the privilege of fishing. 



There is a tax on Bunnyahs, which however is not classed with the 

 Sewaee taxes, which at first sight would appear to be singularly ar- 

 bitrary, and oppressive. Bunnyahs are compelled to take a certain 

 quantity of the grain which comes into the hands of Government for 

 rent at a price two or three rupees per Kundee, higher than the ba- 

 zar rate. But the profits of Bunnyahs are so enormous that they can 

 well afford it, and there would appear to be no other means of reaching 

 them. 



JEnams. — Enam grounds to temples and mosques pay one-fourth of 

 their rent to Government, and this tax is included in the Sewaee Jum- 

 ma. 



The late minister Chundoo Lall was most liberal in his gifts to all 

 holy men, Mussulmen Faquirs, Hindoo Gooroos, and religious beg- 

 gars of all description were alike the objects of his bounty. Had a 

 Franciscan or Dominican Friar appealed to his bounty, Christian as 

 he was, he would have been sent away rejoicing, but the language 

 of the first James of Scotland, who said of one of his predecessors 

 that he proved a sore saint to the crown, was most applicable to 

 him, and perhaps faulty as his administration was, this lavish misap- 

 propriation of the Government revenue committed to his charge was 

 its deepest stain, village on village under the name of Agrari he gave 

 over to Brahmins who on the payment of a small quit rent, or per- 

 haps no rent at all, enjoyed the whole profits. Some of the most po- 

 pulous and richest villages were given away in this manner, to the 

 great loss of the state finances. 



Aimuhvarrah, a large village in the Elgundel Sircar, is an exam- 

 ple of this. Muntini, another large village in the Ramgheer Sircar is 

 occupied chiefly by Brahmins, and the tenure is somewhat different 

 from the Agrari villages in general, the lands are let and the rents 

 collected by Government Officers, but the rents are at a much lower 

 rate than those exacted from other villages. 



These Agrari villages are sometimes misnamed Brahmin jagheers, 

 both by Mahomedans and Hindoos, Jagheers — Jagheer lands are given 



