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Milk and Yoghurt:
The milk and yoghurt sellers said regarding their prices that sheep breeders and other used to bring
milk to the city and sell it by visiting each quarter and street and that both the direct consumers and
yoghurt makers bought from them. They sold the milk at one akça per six hundred dirhams first and
two oke in the second week and four oke in the third week.
Yoghurt made of sheep milk was one copper bowl of one oke first, two bowls in the second and
three bowls in the third week.
Yoghurt made of cow milk sold at one akça for two large bowls. Each bowl contained two okes.
The inspection failed to find any trace of old rules. Though the deviation was evidently due to the
oft-quoted reasons, the old rules were reinstated, whereby the milk peddlars will continue to sell
milk on house-to-house basis and deliver both to consumers and yoghurt makers. There will
henceforth be three yoghurt shops and producers will not go out of the city to buy the incoming
milk.
Locksmiths:
An inquiry made among the locksmiths revealed that the old rules were still applied.
Building trade:
The examined buildings showed full obedience to the Emperor’s orders, who set a daily wage of
twelve akças for the architects. The old rules were reintroduced, with the difference that architect’s
fee will not be paid to the apprentices under their training.
Adobe makers:
The summoned adobe makers said that the small adobes weighed five and the larger ones weighed
eight okes. The inspections revealed lesser weights always for the same reasons and the old rules
were introduced again.
Grave diggers:
The grave diggers said that they digged the men’s graves to the chest and women’s graves to the
shoulder depth for nine akças. The grave charges were fifteen akças for the well-to-do and ten or
eight akças for the poorer. Higher charges will not be asked for and one tombstone will not be sold
to several people.
Grain markets:
The municipal controller dispatched to the grain market had discovered that all scales in the market
were tampered with and all weights on which the mayor’s seal existed were underweight. It was
found that they never controlled the scales and weights for so many years. Vendors claimed that the
municipal officials used to visit them every two or three days and collected bribes from them to
keep silent. Another finding was that the practice was to buy the delivered grains and pulses from
the producer and resell them on ten-eleven basis. But now the vendors were going to the villages
and buying the entire crop in advance, store them in their hideouts and selling them at higher prices
by creating an artificial shortage. This was forbidden, arrangements were made such that the grains
and pulses that used to be bought under the old rules will continue to do so at the exclusion of
hoarders.
Rice merchants:
The rice market was such that an official of the mayor used to visit the merchants together within
the assessors and set prices on ten-eleven basis for each type of rice. But the mayor seemed to have
abandoned this practice for the past four or five years against certain considerations. The old rules
were reintroduced.
Tanneries:
Tanners and their assessor admitted to the Council meeting said that they used the full amount of
canine dung and tanning oil as required by the old rules. But it was found that they had started
cutting the corners in the required amounts in the last four or five years, with the result that the
tanned leathers develop cracks in the winter. They also used to buy sheep and goat skins on hoof by
going to the villages. This was found to be against the religious tenets and forbidden and the new
prices were set as follows:
CIHEAM-IAMM
Juin 2005
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