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| Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873 : vol.1 |
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Citation Information
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10 Soap at
9 Tobacco at 20 Oil at
10 Boots, &c., at 10 Leather at
3 Heeling boots at 20 Basket sellers at
15 Matting sellers at
10 Earthenware sellers at
9 Carpenters at
11 Match sellers at
14 Spice „ at
10 Silk „ at
32 Flour and grain sellers at 48 Fruit sellers at
16 Hat sellers at 9 Smiths at
60 Sheep were sold at
SHOPS.
53 Miscellaneous, tea, &c., at 40 tangas each shop... 20 Cloths (country) sold at 20 tangas each shop
10 per shop
2 30 25 10
= 2,120 tangas.
= 400
= 100
= 18,
= 600 = 250 = 100 = 12 = 40 = 45 = 20 = 54 = 11 = 70 = 40 = 2,120 = 240
= 320
= 45
= 1,260
= 200
= 360
= 2,400
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Transactions on market day and profits on labor in bazaars amounting
about ... ... ... . . . 34,100
The sales in this bazaar in comparison with those of other places are small; it may thus fairly be urged that the population of the district is comparatively a small one.
When the crops of the district are half ready, the revenue of the district is estimated by an officer appointed by the Amir, in company with the Hakim, under whom there are 20 Dewan Begies, or tax collectors.
The proportion of the revenue at the disposal of the Hakim is the free gift of the King.
The revenue is collected in accordance with the estimate, unless special grounds are advanced for remission.
The revenue of the Artush district may be taken as under, paid in'cash :—
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4 Oxen „ at
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Each Ash-paz realised at the rate of 30 tangas
Sale of cotton thread
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On each 3 loads of grain, 1 load of straw, giving 31,000 loads of straw,
&venue on gardens, cotton, fodder, and melons ... ...
Ditto in grain, 93,000 charaks of grain, being the 10th part of the produce, valued at an average of 2 tungas per charak ....
valued at 2 tungas ...
The tax on live-stock in addition. Tobacco is not grown in this district.
1,20,000 tangas.
1,86,000
62,000
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3,68,000 tangas.
Aylak, where a tax is levied on each house where it is prepared
Sujjee is made at Kulti of 25 tangas annûally.
Land of the 1st class, in
2nd
3rd „
From the 1st description, a crop yielding 14 charaks will be realized ;
From 2nd ditto, ditto 7 ditto ; and
From 3rd • ditto, ditto 4 ditto.
Transfers of land can only be made before the Kazee, 2 tangas per cent. the stamp.
which one charak of seed can be sown, realizes ...
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... 50
... 25
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