1 ( 115.)
2 - 52. “Up to this time no more had been done than has been here
3 detailed, except that the renters had been deprived of all Police power,
4 and their proceedings in other respects been most narrowly watched.
5 Sufficient insight however had by this time been gained into the work-
6 ing of the system to justify further steps. At the close of 1841-42,
7 therefore, the accounts underwent a most searching scrutiny, and all
8 items not properly belonging to the Land Customs were transferred to
9 their proper heads ; and amongst them all those which constituted the
10 Puttady Sayer were removed from the books.
11 53. Even after this it was still found that many abuses still existed
12 in the system, which it was impossible to arrive at from the falsified
13 accounts of the renters, and it was therefore resolved that the Sayer
14 and Punjab of the Mysore Talook for the year 1842-43 should be taken
15 under Amanee management as an experiment.
16 _ 54 The above experiment having answered beyond expectation,
17 permission was granted to extend the Amanee system in 1843-44 to ten
18 more Talooks. Orders were also issued for the immediate abolition of
19 many Cuttays in those Talooks and for sweeping away the remaining
20 Transit duties in the Talook of Mysore, where their effects had been
21 found to be more pernicious to trade than elsewhere.
22 55. In 1844-45 the Sayer and Abkarry in all the remaining Talooks
23 were brought under Circar management, and Transit duties were every-
24 where abolished. A most vexatious impost called Dunmar was also dis
25 continued. It consisted in the exaction of a fee of one Canteroy fanam
26 on every cow or bullock sold, no matter whether by the breeder to a ryot,
27 . or by one ryot to another. As the price of the small cattle of the country
28 is generally about ten or twelve fanams, this apparently trifling fee, levi-
29 ed as it Was on every transfer, became a really heavy burthen.
30 56. From the period of the assumption the duties om one hundred
31 and fifty-two articles have been struck off in the Ashtagram Division ‘of
32 the annual value of Rupees 2,27,993-10-10.
33 57. Certain fixed duties on a few minor articles still continue to be
34 levied throughout the Ashtagram Division, and the Town dues in the
35 Talook of Mysore amounted last year to Rupees 39,923-7-0.
36 58. In the Bangalore Division, probably owing to its containing the
37 ‘ large British Cantonment, abuses were much less
38 ae ae and Ashtagram ; and the rules
39 ich were in force in the time of Poorniah,
40 Bangalore Division,
41 for levying the 8