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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[OCTOBER, 1897.
1796. - "After dinner he offered me 100 ticals, which be informed mu he received from the looto (Elutdaw) by his Majesty's orders: and, that I was to have 100 every ten days." - Cox, Lurmlun Empire, p. 116.
1800.-" The first commission of theft does not incur the penalty of death, unless the amount stolen be above 800 kiat, or tackal, about £100." – Symes, Ara, p. 306.
1800.- "What foreigners call a tackal, properly kiat, is the most general piece of silver in circulation; it weighs ten penny-weights ten grains and three-fourths; its subdivisions are, the tabbee, two of which make one moo; two moo one math; four math one tackal, and one hundred tackal coin pose one viss." - Symes, Ava, p. 326.
1300. - "A silver box weighing ninety tackall. A tackall weighs a little more than half an oance." - Eymes, dra, p. 493.
1800. - "Tackall, a piece of silver of about 2.. 6 d. value." - Eymes, Ava, p. 502.
18:1. - "In money at the above price 28 tacals 50 avas, or seven tecals twelve avasts each man per month." - Cow in As. Res. Vol. VI. p. 134.
1817. -"The tical, alluded in the following statement, contains ten in one hundred alloy [i. e., ywetni silver] Besides these, a sum of two ticals is paid to a person called the Aongdeng, and another of half of a tical to a person called the Athao-bo (as judicial fees) : officers whose duty it is to purchase and administer the "pickled tea" necessary to the ceremony of closing the transaction." - Crawfurd, dua, p. 410, quoting Alves, Report on Bassein.
c. 1805. - Sometimes " a ticale of silver with a portion of alloy is equal to 200 ticali of lead, sometimes to a thousand and even more." - Sangermano, p. 167.
1821. - "The shop-tax is levied on the following rude and sommary principle. A dealer in cloth pays four tickals a year (and so on)." – Crawfurd, Siam, p. 379.
1826. - "The division of the Tical are, - 2 Tabbe = 1 Tammoo: 2 Tammoo = 1 Mat: 4 Mat = 1 Tical: 100 Tical - 1 Tabisa or Viss: lvo Tabisa = 1 Peiya or Ava Pical or 250 Penang Catties." - Wilson, Documents, lxi.“
1827. - "They (Burmese Envoys) then offered to pay on the spot a money instalment of four lacs of tickals. Tickal, rather more than a rupee." - Snodgrass, Lurmese War, p. 267.
1828.-" The nominal currency of the Empire is the 'tical, which, when of flowered silver, is equivalent to 1 rupee, 5 annas, 4 pie, Sicca; and assuming the rupee at 2 8., equals 28. 85 d." - Trant, Two Years in Ava, p. 280.
c. 1833. - "Vis, tikal and moo are the general terms used in the transaction of (Burmese) commerce and accounts .... 100 tikals are precisely equal to 140 tolas...."Prinsep, Useful Tables, p. 130.
c. 1835. -"The price of the common or mixed amber is 21 ticals a vis, or Rs. 4 per one and a half seer." - Hannay in Hill Tracts between Assam and Burmah, p. 103.
1835.-" The price now, including the pots, is about a tical for 2 vis, or about 2 s. sterling for ten pounds." - Malcom, Travels, Vol. II. p. 199.
1836. -"Ken-lay is the military post dividing the proper Barman from the Shan (Myelat) territory, where & duty of a quarter of a tickal is levied on each bullock." - Richardson's Journal in Parl. Papere, East India, 10th August 1869, p. 144. i 1836. - "I halted on the bank of a small stream in thick jungle, near the village called Ban-sa-to; it has only been inhabited three years by these people, who are Shans of Mok-mai,
• Ava I take to mean yurd or rati. It is a curious way of reckoning for Burma, but then Cox is always carious,
The use of the numeral ta (one) as an integral portion of the words for weights is instructivo.
