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marts, such as Tannore, Calicut, and Tellichery; and the price to he CHAPTER
given for the pepper should be regulated by the proceeds of these vJ^Il,
sales. Mr. Wye thinks that this would be an effectual mean of Dec. 20,21.
preventing smuggling, by which the revenue is at present exces-
sively defrauded, there being a duty of 10f per cent, ad valorem on
all the pepper exported. The whole of this business might be ma-
naged by the collectors, so far as the delivery of the pepper into
the Company's store-houses, after which it would of course be under
the management of the commercial resident. In the bonds taken
by the traders when they make advances, there is no particular pre-
caution taken for the delivery of the pepper of certain qualities;
so that we may safely conclude, that difference of curing, or other
similar circumstances, make no considerable difference in its value;
the receiving it by the collectors, therefore, would be- attended
with little trouble, and require no particular skill. I have already
mentioned this, as one of the means that might be adopted to ob-
viate the difficulties that must always attend a tax which is imposed
upon plantations by the number of trees that they contain. I have
in my possession a manuscript concerning Travancore, in which it
is stated, that the Kerit Ham Raja, in the year 1757, having re-
ceived some assistance from the English, was willing to favour their
commerce. On this occasion Mr. Spencer, the English chief, took
an account of the pepper produced in the dominions of that prince,
Avhere there was no laud-tax, but where the Raja monopolized all
the pepper, and gave the cultivators a fixed price for whatever
they could raise. As the pepper trade of Trawancore has always
been more flourishing than any other, we may fairly infer, that this
is the way in which a tax may be levied from it with the greatest
advantage to the extent of cultivation. The whole pepper raised
in the dominions of Travancore amounted to 1J ,752 Candies. For
this the Raid gave to the cultivators 30 Rupees a Candy, amounting
to 3,52,560 Rupees. ■ The amount of the sales, even including 2000
Candies that were given to the English Company at the low price
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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR.
457
marts, such as Tannore, Calicut, and Tellichery; and the price to he CHAPTER
given for the pepper should be regulated by the proceeds of these vJ^Il,
sales. Mr. Wye thinks that this would be an effectual mean of Dec. 20,21.
preventing smuggling, by which the revenue is at present exces-
sively defrauded, there being a duty of 10f per cent, ad valorem on
all the pepper exported. The whole of this business might be ma-
naged by the collectors, so far as the delivery of the pepper into
the Company's store-houses, after which it would of course be under
the management of the commercial resident. In the bonds taken
by the traders when they make advances, there is no particular pre-
caution taken for the delivery of the pepper of certain qualities;
so that we may safely conclude, that difference of curing, or other
similar circumstances, make no considerable difference in its value;
the receiving it by the collectors, therefore, would be- attended
with little trouble, and require no particular skill. I have already
mentioned this, as one of the means that might be adopted to ob-
viate the difficulties that must always attend a tax which is imposed
upon plantations by the number of trees that they contain. I have
in my possession a manuscript concerning Travancore, in which it
is stated, that the Kerit Ham Raja, in the year 1757, having re-
ceived some assistance from the English, was willing to favour their
commerce. On this occasion Mr. Spencer, the English chief, took
an account of the pepper produced in the dominions of that prince,
Avhere there was no laud-tax, but where the Raja monopolized all
the pepper, and gave the cultivators a fixed price for whatever
they could raise. As the pepper trade of Trawancore has always
been more flourishing than any other, we may fairly infer, that this
is the way in which a tax may be levied from it with the greatest
advantage to the extent of cultivation. The whole pepper raised
in the dominions of Travancore amounted to 1J ,752 Candies. For
this the Raid gave to the cultivators 30 Rupees a Candy, amounting
to 3,52,560 Rupees. ■ The amount of the sales, even including 2000
Candies that were given to the English Company at the low price
Vol. II. 3 N