APRIL* — sepx. 1859.] Copper Plates of Malabar. 



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e< Stanoo Ravi Goopta Co [King] comprised in the many hundred 

 " thousands of years in which (his ancestors) ruled, having op- 

 " posed and conquered their enemies, the Ayyen Adigul Teeroo- 

 C£ vati [f. e. His Excellency the servant of Vishnoo, that is the 

 " Travancore Raja] granted the following Deed of Vidooper [Pri- 

 " vileges] to the Tarisa Church built by Isodata Veeray of Cura- 

 " cani Collom, in the presence of the Adicarur (the Ministers) 

 " Pracriti or Sumprati (the Officers) Anchoovunnom [t. e. the 

 " inhabitants of Anchoovunnom the Jewish Principality] and 

 " Poomatala Pati [or the Head man of the village of Poonnatala.] 



(2) " The four houses (or branches) of Eeyover* and eight 

 " houses of Eeyoovakayer 6 as well as the one house of Vun- 

 " nan c coming from the same stock, are to pay (henceforth to the 

 " Church) the fetter d tax, the ladder 6 tax, the elephant feed- 

 " ing^ tax, the cloth washings tax, as well as the tax on gold 

 " washing both from sands as also from streams and also the 

 " Night-meal tax. A I (t. e. Maroowan Sapir Iso) who also be- 

 " fore this held Anchoocundi by Varakole and Cawa,* have now 

 " granted these (to the Church) on Vidooperak Atti (i. e. in ab- 

 " solute fee simple tenure). 



(3) " It has been arranged so that those four houses of 

 " Eeyoover,* one branch of washerman, two branches of Neeroo- 



a. Servile caste of toddy drawers generally called Teeyer. 



b. A similar caste but of much inferior degree, who could however 

 marry into the families of the former. 



c. A caste of washermen who can wash the clothes of such inferior 

 castes only. 



d. A tax upon the foot rope and hand rope used for climbing cocoa- 

 nut and areca nut trees, &c. 



e. A tax upon the bamboo ladder used to mount the trees in gather- 

 ing pepper and other produce. 



/. A tax upon the pay of the elephant keeper. 



g. A tax on the said washerman's work. 



h. The taxes paid upon different other duties performed by these 

 castes, after which only they take their regular meals at night. 



i. A stick and string, that is the ploughshare and the halter rope 

 of a bullock which as a sign of real transfer are given into the hands 

 of the receiver of the land. 



h. These include the other eight inferior branches. 



