Administrative System of the Marathas c18.s27.4

c18.s27.4

We have casually noticed the kauls granted to traders. The cultivators, we have seen, got a kaul for bringing waste land into cultivation and for the improvement of agriculture in general, and kauls were granted to merchants for repopulation of old and deserted market-towns, for foundation of new market places and for the improvement of trade and commerce in general. A kaul was granted to the Shete Mahajan, shop-keepers and traders, and persons following other occupations of Kasba Mukhde in Pargana Patode, of Sarkar Sangamner in the Subha of Khujiste Buniad in 1750-51, because business in the old market of the aforesaid village was not thriving well owing to some disturbance. The kaul was granted not only for the improvement of the trade and for the benefit of the tradesmen, but also because it was to the profit of the government as well. By this kaul old residents of the place were to be exempted from export and import duties for three years, and to be subjected only to the payment of house-tax (levied according to the profession of the house-owner); and new-comers were to be exempted from export and import duties for five years, and from house tax for three years.²⁹