From this it would appear that the Bohoteahs paid to the Dufflahs five rupees each in produce; while the free population was assessed at the rate of about eight rupees per village of twenty houses, which would average about six annas four pice per house. From the free and slave population united, as far as we have means for determining, the sum realized in kind from the inhabitants of the whole Dooar, amounted to 2,503 rs. 10 ans. 6 pice; so that in reality the Dufflahs have gained by the money substituted for black mail. In the palmy days of the Ahoom Government it is not certain that this system existed; but on the Ahoom Rajahs becoming proselytes to the Hindoo creed, they and their followers degenerated; and being unable to check by force of arms, the inroads of the numerous hill tribes both on the north and south frontiers of the valley--a space of 400 miles, accessible by innumerable passes--they readily permitted the tribes to levy black mail once a year on certain portions of land called Dooars. Thus were continual hostilities averted, and the Ahoom Rajahs had leisure to pay attention to their own affairs. Intestine commotion, however, worked the destruction which foreign aggression was restrained from accomplishing. CHAR DOOAR DUFFLAHS. --------+--------+----------------------------------+---------------- No. of | No. | | Chiefs | of | | Amount of in each | Khels | Name of Khel or Clan. | Pension. Khel or | or | | Clan. | Clans. | | --------+--------+----------------------------------+---------------- | | | Rs. Ans. Pice. 23 | 1 | Phering Ooela | 97 8 5 20 | 2 | Oopur Takoolea | 108 5 2 21 | 3 | Nam Takoolea | 196 14 1 21 | 4 | Rapo Oolea | 76 11 4 46 | 5 | Paee Olea | 234 12 2 7 | 6 | Oopur Taolea | 17 1 11 2 | 7 | Nam Taolea | 3 10 7 3 | 8 | Chana Oolea | 23 6 7 37 | 9 | Oopur Tabungolea | 106 2 9 | 10 | Purbutea village, Mekla Gaum, | | | Deka and Bur Gaum extinct | 4 8 4 ,, | 11 | Jeynath Hya Babang Gaum, of | | | Kuchla Barru, extinct | 0 8 3 ,, | 12 | Names of chiefs unknown, extinct | 150 0 0 --------+ | +---------------- 180 | | Total |1020 0 0 --------+--------+----------------------------------+---------------- DUFFLAHS OF NOW DOOAR.