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IN THE BURMHAN EMPIRE. 41
No provisions are allowed to the oil drawers, but
the proprietors supply the ropes, §-c, and lastly,
the king's duty is a tenth of the produce. Now,
supposing a well to yield 500 viss per diem
throughout the year, deducting one-sixth for the
labourers, and one-tenth for the king, there will
remain for the proprietor, rejecting fractions,
136,876 viss, which at li tical, the value at
the wells is equal to 1,710 ticals per annum.
From this sum there is to be deducted only a
trifle for drawing, ropes, fyc, for I could not learn
that there was any further duties or expense to
be charged on the produce; but the merchants
say they gain only a neat 1,000 ticals per annum
for each well; and, as we advance we shall have
reason to think they have given the maximum
rather than the minimum of their profits; hence
we may infer, that the gross amount of produce
per annum is not 182,500 viss. Further, the four
labourers' share, or one-sixth, deducting the king's
tithe, will be 2,250 viss per month of thirty days,
or in money at the above price, twenty-eight ticals,
fifty avas, or seven ticals, twelve avas each man
per month; but the wages of a common labourer
in this part of the country, as the same persons
informed me, is only five ticals per month when
hired from day to day: they also admitted that
the labour of the oil-drawers was not harder than
that of common labourers, and the employment no
No provisions are allowed to the oil drawers, but
the proprietors supply the ropes, §-c, and lastly,
the king's duty is a tenth of the produce. Now,
supposing a well to yield 500 viss per diem
throughout the year, deducting one-sixth for the
labourers, and one-tenth for the king, there will
remain for the proprietor, rejecting fractions,
136,876 viss, which at li tical, the value at
the wells is equal to 1,710 ticals per annum.
From this sum there is to be deducted only a
trifle for drawing, ropes, fyc, for I could not learn
that there was any further duties or expense to
be charged on the produce; but the merchants
say they gain only a neat 1,000 ticals per annum
for each well; and, as we advance we shall have
reason to think they have given the maximum
rather than the minimum of their profits; hence
we may infer, that the gross amount of produce
per annum is not 182,500 viss. Further, the four
labourers' share, or one-sixth, deducting the king's
tithe, will be 2,250 viss per month of thirty days,
or in money at the above price, twenty-eight ticals,
fifty avas, or seven ticals, twelve avas each man
per month; but the wages of a common labourer
in this part of the country, as the same persons
informed me, is only five ticals per month when
hired from day to day: they also admitted that
the labour of the oil-drawers was not harder than
that of common labourers, and the employment no