Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c40.107

c40.107

(*a*) industrial matters of the city,
(*b*) foreigners in the city on whose death they administered their properties (forwarded them to their relatives,²
(*c*) registration of births and deaths in the city,
(*d*) trade and commerce and manufactures of the city and collection of municipal duty on the sale of articles. "Such are the functions which these bodies "separately discharged. In their collective "capacity they have charge both of their special "departments and also of matters affecting the general interests, "as the keeping of public buildings in "repairs, regulation of prices, the care of markets, harbours "and temples."