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2 At present a duty of four annas a maund of 28 Ibs. is levied on all that
3 is sold. The Commissioner had commenced a survey of the Coffee lands
4 with a view to commuting this excise to a tax on the land of one -rupee
5 per acre as in the Company’s country, but after a short trial thé attempt
6 was abandoned as impracticable. :
7 The growth of the Tea plant has been attempted, but without success.
8 Sandal wood continues to be.one of the most important productions of
9 Mysore. The trees are vigilantly guarded ; and the
10 right of cutting them is a strict monopoly of the Go-
11 vernment. On the conquest of Canara by the English, the forests were
12 thrown open to the people to cut as they pleased, dnd in a few years
13 hardly a tree remained.
14 The Betel Nut of Nuggur is justly famous throughout the markets
15 of Southern India. About the time that the Transit duties were swept
16 away, the “ Halut,” as it was called, on this. article shared their fate
17 throughout the Company’s country. The Commissioner conceiving that
18 there could not be a more legitimate source of revenue, and that tho
19 “ Halut” was, in fact, though not in form, an excise rather than a tran-
20 sit duty, resolved to keep it on in Mysore to see what the effect would
21 be. Owing partly to its superior quality, and partly perhaps to a com-
22 bination among the merchants to keep up the price of
23 the article generally, the taxed nut of Mysore finds as —
24 ready a sale as the untaxed nut of Canara.
25 English Schools, supported by the Government, have been established
26 for many years at the Head Quarters of the Divisions ; but, till recently,
27 with no marked success. The great difficulty appearing to lie in the
28 procuring of eompetent teachers, within the last few months a scheme
29 has been set on foot to obviate this by the institution of a Normal Train-
30 ing School for Instructors, and, as it is under the control of a highly
31 qualified person, the Commissioner has every confidence that in a short
32 time the system of Education in Mysore will be on a really satisfactory
33 footing. And, as it is, the attainments,of many of the scholars in Mr.
34 Garrett’s Institution at, Bangalore would do no discredit to the long es-
35 ‘ tablished Schools at the Presidency towns.
36 There are Government Hospitals with Dispensaries for Out-patients at
37 Bangalore and at Shemogah ; and another is supported at Mysore from
38 the private funds of the Rajah. They are resorted to with confidence
39 by all castes of Natives.
40 - Appendix E,
41 Appendiz G,