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land, on which 400 men require to be employed daily; from which 
it results that 1600 persons who possess 2000 bahus of rice fields 
are exempted from the land tax. 
A man cuts from 500 to about 550 canes, of which 2000 to 2200 
are sufficient to furnish a pieul of sugar, in which way 4 men are re¬ 
quired to cut the quantity of canes necessary for a picul of sugar. 
Considering that the mill is only at work for 10 months in the year, 
the produce of one day is calculated at 20 piculs, which occupies 80 
cane cutters, so that 320 persons receive exemption from the tax by 
this labour. For the transport of the canes to the mill 140 loads 
are reckoned, each of 320 canes. A cart (pedati or keserj makes 
ordinarily two trips a day which makes the number of carts belong- 
to the establishment 70; each cart is accompanied by one man which 
makes 280 persons exempt from the tax. There are 40 others re¬ 
quired for cutting the wood used in the furnaces, and when the ma¬ 
nufacturer from want of free workmen is obliged to employ the in¬ 
habitants of the desa, he requires 50 men daily; thus more than 200 
men are freed from the tax.* 
Recapitulation. 
For the field works,, 
„ cutting the canes, 
„ the transport of the canes. 
,, cutting wood &c. 
The manufacturer employing workmen fur¬ 
nished by the village, 
Total. . 
Of which only 610 are employed daily. 
The 2240 men enjoy the remission of the tax calculated at/. 7|» 
* I mention in this view the conditions stipulated by the first contracts 
with the sugar manufacturers. Since 1834 these contracts have undergone 
some modifications owing to the improvement of the apparatus and to the 
facility with which the manufacturer now procures free labourers j the taste 
for agricultural labours comes more and more into favor amongst the Java¬ 
nese. The old carts, pedofi, are also of a better construction. They are 
sow made of iron. 
1,600 men 
320 „ 
280 „ 
40 
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2240 
200 
2,440 meu 
