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made from any inferior court or judge to the 
Myo-wun, the following were the customary 
charges: five ticals for the court, from both plain¬ 
tiff and defendant; two ticals from each of the 
writers ; two ticals for the messengers ; half a tical 
from each, for pickled tea; ten ticals from each 
party, as a personal present to the Myo-wun ; 
seven ticals for this personage’s chief scribe ; and 
two to the particular scribe who wrote out his 
Excellency’s decree.* 
The presentation of a petition to the Myo-wun, 
with the decision upon it, were commonly accom¬ 
panied by the following charges a present of 
one vis of silver, or one hundred ticals; two ticals 
for his Excellency’s head-writer, two for his mes¬ 
sengers, one for the particular messenger that de¬ 
livered the petition and procured a reply to it, and 
half a tical to the particular writer who copied 
that reply.f 
There were separate and distinct charges on 
oaths. The following is a sample :—Administra¬ 
tion of an oath with a sacred volume on the head, 
ten ticals; messenger who holds the book over 
the head, one tical; rest of the messengers, two 
ticals; writers, two ticals; and pickled tea em¬ 
ployed in the ceremony, half a tical. 
Messengers have particular fees for delivering 
summonses, measured by the distance: one tical 
was the fixed charge, if the person summoned 
* Captain Alves’ Report. 
f Ibid. 
