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Statistics of the Sircar Yelgunthul. [No. 39, 



The quantity and value of the Articles manufactured annually 

 may be thus exhibited. 



AKJ.lCl.kb. 



Quantity. 



Value. 







Rs. 



As. 



P. 



Cotton Cloths, - - 

 Paper, - 

 Cumlies, - - 

 Tusser, - * 



28,770 Pieces, - - - - 

 864 Reams, - - - 



19,920 Pieces, - - - - 

 386 Pieces, - - - - 



2,14,161 

 2,239 

 7,470 

 1,630 



3 

 12 

 0 

 0 



11 

 0 

 0 

 0 





Total Rupees . . 



2,25,500 



15 



11 



The trade in manufactured goods is entirely in the hands of 

 Bunniahs, who, by a system of advances, keep the labour of the 

 weavers at their disposal, and let the quality of the article be a silk 

 sarree, or a common cumlie, the remuneration to the operative is 

 the same ; — no official records are kept to show the quantity of ex- 

 ports and imports, and from the amount of town duty alone, a cor- 

 rect estimate cannot be formed, because an imported or exported 

 article in its transit within the Sircar pays duty on entering every 

 talook, consequently it may have been taxed two or three times 

 before it reaches its market, or quits the district, and any conclu- 

 sions drawn from the duty paid upon any one article in any talook 

 would therefore be erroneous. The sayer or town duty is raised 

 chiefly from the exportation of rice, ghee, cloths and paper, and 

 the importation of salt, but the quantity of each commodity or the 

 amount derived from each cannot be shown. 



The villages in which iron is manufactured have been mentioned, 

 but it is difficult to determine accurately the extent to which smelt- 

 ing is carried ; the furnaces are not kept constantly at work, but 

 only when there is a demand, and that is by no means steady. The 

 best market is Konasamudrum in the Nandair Sircar, where the 

 famous steel is made. 



The allowance paid by the manufacturer to the zemindar is 

 one Rupee per month, let the amount of ore collected be what it 

 may. 



