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2 4 new tax, or the institution of a new Cuttay, and the name of a mendi-
3 cant called Mohunt is remembered from a privilege which was granted °
4 to him for a time of exacting a fee from every person passing! into
5 Mysore from a particular direction.‘ The mendicant was soon deprived
6 of this right, but the toll was continued under the title of the “ Mohunt
7 Roossoom,” and put up to auction along with the other items of
8 Sayer. e
9 46. In the immediate neighbourhood of Mysore these Cuttays were
10 so close together that there were few roads on which the goods of a mer-
11 chant were.not stopped, and (unless he came to terms) unloaded and
12 ransacked, at least four times in the course of an ordinary day’s journey.
13 Even more than this: a particular bridge is mentioned on which at-one
14 time there were three of these Cuttays—one at each end, and one over
15 the centre arch !
16 47. The Commission commenced its operations in the end of the
17 year 1831-32, and in 1832-38 and 1833-34 were struck off the whole of
18 the duties on grain.
19 48. In 1835-36 the Transit duty on horses was abolished.
20 49, In 1836-87 duties ceased to be levied on fire-wood, old. timber,
21 Europe articles, sandal-wood oil, and vegetables on entering the Town
22 of Mysore. Many minor “dues of .the same kind were also struck off,
23 among them the “ Mohunt Roossoom.” And in 1837-38 fruit, plantain
24 leaves and straw were added to the articles allowed to pass free.
25 50. In 1838-39 and 1839-40 the tax on stalls erected for the
26 ‘sale of parched grain, paddy, husked erice, and butter-milk was struck
27 off. An item called Purseegay, which was a fee in kind éxacted by the ©
28 renter on almost all smaller articles offered for sale, was discontinued,
29 as was also the duty on butter. The tax on blacksmiths’ forges
30 was likewise abolished, This last only formed part of an extended mea-
31 sure of relief granted go the manufacturers of Iron throughout the
32 country, the greater part of whose ‘heavy burthens were brought to.
33 account under the head of land revenue.
34 51. In 1840-41 was abolished a most vexatious Transit duty on
35 tattle, which had been made to extend to cows and bullocks sent from
36 the town to graze on country pastures—and an item termed Dookan
37 Pasarah was struck off. It consisted in a fee levied from certain poor
38 people for the privilege of sitting down in the street to sell’ parched
39 grain and other things from their baskets.