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2 vere continued without ‘change or modification up-to 1846-47, under
3 Izardars, to whom the Sayer was annually rented on competition. It’is
4 of course needless to mention that the grain duties had been swept away;
5 and a vast number of items expunged from the Tariff as in the other
6 Divisions.
7 59. But notwithstanding that a total reform was needed in the’
8 Bangalore Division only less than in the others, yet, as the Sayer made
9 up avery large item of the revenue, caution was required in disturbing
10 it. As a first step, the whole was taken out of the hands of the Izardars
11 or renters, and put, in the year 1846-47, under Circar management ;
12 and the duties were levied avowedly on the old rules and system ; the
13 better, by acquiring a practical knowledge of those old rules, to reform
14 and improve them hereafter.
15 60. The result of that year’s arrangements was, an increase of nearly
16 48? per cent. in this. item of revenue over that of former years. under
17 the renters, and an assurance that a fair and equitable method of collect-
18 ing these duties might be devised without any very great loss to
19 the Circar.
20 - 61,- The first modification of the old Sayer system in this Division
21 was commenced on the 21st July 1847. It was simply the levying an
22 ad-valorem duty of 4 per cent. on all articles at the place of export or
23 despatch ; and at the frontier Cuttays, on all articles entering the
24 Division. To this general rule, there were but three exceptions; sé,
25 Raw Silk, on which an ad-valorem duty of 2 per cent. only was imposed ;
26 2nd, Tobacco was rated in three classes, I. 12 Canteroy fanams per
27 ‘maund ; II. Choora or fibres, 9 fanams ; III. Cuddy or scraps, 6 fanams
28 per maund ; and 3rdly, Betel leaf for the consumption of the Bangalore
29 Town was charged 1? Cash per bundle. The above were the rates fixed
30 upon the tobacco entering the Bangalore Talook, but in all other parts of
31 the Division, it came under the general rule of 4 percent. ad-valorem.
32 62. This arrangement obtained for five months, till the 20th Decem-
33 ber 1847. When the rules were revised, in order -that they might
34 be -adapted to act in concert with the Sayer rules’ which were being
35 Simultaneously modified in the other Divisions, and. the revision thus
36 made was as follows: —
37 ‘ 63. Articles merely passing through the Division, to or from are
38 parts of Mysore, to or from the Company’s Districts, or from one part
39 of the Company’s Territories to others, are exempt from duty.