1851.] 



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inhabitants. This town is clean, dry and well situated on high, open 

 ground ; formerly large quantities of cloth and paper were manu- 

 factured, but that of the latter has ceased entirely, and the former 

 made only to supply its own market. 



Jummicoonta — Is the chief town and kusba of the detached Pur- 

 gunnah of Vegiaghery and Velchal, distant 20 miles due East from 

 Yelgunthul ; it has 225 houses and 1,112 inhabitants. There are 

 two looms for the manufacture of carpets at the village of Veena- 

 vunka, and these are the only two for that purpose in the Sircar. 



Such are the chief towns in the Sircar. The remaining villages 

 from which Purgunnahs have been named are either small or deserted. 



Yamulivadda — Is a considerable village on the left bank of the 

 Gunga nullah in Havalee Purgunnah ; has 2,909 inhabitants of 

 whom 642 are Brahmins who hold the town in jaghese ; they have no 

 records to show when the grant was originally decreed, the whole hav- 

 ing been lost by fire which nearly destroyed the town 40 years ago. 



Another deed has been obtained from the Dewan Muneer-Ool- 

 Moolk Bahadoor to the following effect : 



" To all Deshmooks, Sir Desh Pondias, Despondias, Revenue Offi- 

 cers, Accountants, Ryots, Labourers, &c, in the Havalee Purgunnah 

 of Yelgunthul Sircar in the country of Hydrabad here." 



" The village of Yamulwadda in the aforesaid Purgunnahs with 

 property, and Sayer, and Mothurpha, and Kullale, also taxes on 

 feasts of the temple, all gardens, trees, &c, all and several of these 

 from the beginning of the year 1225 Fuslee are given to one and all 

 of the Brahmins residing in the aforesaid village without mention- 

 ing particular names, or shares, to themselves and their heirs for 

 ever ; and also to defray the expenses of the Pooja at the temple." 



It is therefore necessary that all people knowing this, should allow 

 the aforesaid Brahmins to have their lawful property at the proper 

 season, and considering this as their authority act accordingly. 



Given on the 15th day of Saubon 1230. The property thus con- 

 veyed to them has been divided equally between 200 families, the 

 affairs of the community being managed by three of the descendants 

 of the Somiajooloo who at first made the distribution ; lapses of 



