Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c9.5

c9.5

The Town Officials (*Astynomoi*) : "The second kind, the Town Officials, were divided into six Boards of five. Their respective functions were (1) Supervision of Factories (2) Care of strangers, including control of the Inns, provision of Assistants, taking charge of sick persons, burying the dead (3) the Registration of Births and Deaths (4) the Control of the Market (5) Inspection of Weights and Measures, the inspection of manufactured goods, provision for their sale with accurate distinction of new and secondhand articles (6) collection of the Tax of 10 per cent charged on sales.