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APPENDIX 
Included in the above enumeration of houses are 9008 tenements 
which adjoin to, and originally formed a part of them, but which 
are now found to be separately occupied, andmay be considered 
as distinct habitations, as will appear from the following detail of 
dwelling-houses inhabited by the severaldescriptions, casts, trades, 
and professions, residing in the city of Benares. 
Number of 
Houses. 
By Hindoos andMahomedans of character, in the service of 
persons of rank, and of foreign states, vakeels, agents of 
Aumils, and agents in concerns of revenue and trade and 
pensions - - - - - - 2,500 
Armed peons, Rajepoots, Birjbaussee, and Mahomedans, 2,000 
Hindoos and Mussulmauns, gomastahs in the service of 
merchants and traders - - - 1,500 
Hindoos of independent fortunes, who have from religious 
motives fixed their residence at Benares, - - 2,000 
Brahmins* subsisting by charitable contributions, though 
each has property of his own ; - - - 7,500 
Hindoos and Mussulmauns, following the several occupa- 
tions of khidmutgars, chobdars, elephant, camel, and 
hackery drivers, horse-breakers, grooms, sellers of grass, 
and mussalchees, - - - - 2,500 
Manjees, and dandies, Hindoos, - - - - 307 
Physicians, Hindoos and Mussulmauns, - - - 110 
Masons, stone-cutters, carpenters, and porters, both Hindoos 
and Mussulmauns, - - . . _ 2,153 
Carried forward, 20,5 70 
* Whenever any persons of rank come on pilgrimage to Benares from the Duk- 
kien, they distribute alms to all the Brahmins of this description. On these occasions 
the Brahmins receiving alms have been reckoned to the number of 7000. 
