1849 ] Statistics of the Circar of Dowluiabad. 545 



The raw silk is imported from Bombay at twelve rupees a seer, 

 and when prepared at seventeen rupees a seer, the declared value of 

 the manufacture exported last year was rupees 37,500, the price of 

 6,250 pieces. 



The places the silk goods are exported to are principally to the 

 great fair at Mhajee in Kandesh, Nassuck, Nuggur, Yeola, and Pa- 

 rol a. 



The daily wages of the work people are four annas a man, two annas 

 a woman, and one anna a boy: the number of operatives employ- 

 ed are 112 Hindoos, and 13 Mussulmen. 



The number of hands required for each silk throwing machine, is 

 five. The cotton weavers are all Hindoos and receive four rupees 

 a month wages. 



The subject of weights and measures having 



Weights and Mea- . . , , . , . » 



Bures, been considered, when reportmg upon the city of 



Aurungabad, leaves nothing to be added to what 

 has already been given, further than stating that some discrepancies 

 in the value of the beegha were occasionally found occurring through- 

 out the Gircar ; for example, at Aurungabad, the beegha is a square 

 of 40 rods, the length of each rod being 43 inches, forming a super- 

 ficial measure of 2,958,400 square inches English = 2,282 928* 

 square yards, or very little less than half a British acre. Elsewhere 

 it is a square of 20 rods, or pands, each rod measuring 85 inches, 

 that is a superficial measure of 2,890,000 square inches English, 

 2,229-1,216 square English yards. There is a smaller rod in use for 

 measuring baghaet lands which is shorter than the above, hy 8 inches 

 in every pand. 



Lending and Bor- "^^^ regular established rate of interest is 8 annas 

 rowing. per cent, per mensem, amongst the Soucars them- 



selves, who increase this up to 2 rupees per cent, in times of emer- 

 gency. To traders, usually from 10 annas to 1 rupee per cent, per 

 mensem is allowed, according to their degrees of credit and respon- 

 Bibility; whilst from persons not engaged in trade, from 12 annas to 

 2 rupees is demanded. 



(Signed) W. H. Beadley, Surgeon, 

 BoLDANAH, 1 8^A Regt. Nizam^s Infy. on Special Duty, 



Seftemher Sth, 1848. J 



* Erroneously stated in a former report at 2,210 square yards. 



