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Rh jockeys, 16; elephant drivers (máhuts), 13; grooms, 5509; grasscutters, 2145; shoeing smiths (nálbands), 257; hunters (shikárís), 116. Total of Class IV., 324,044.

.—Persons engaged in commerce and in trade; or in the conveyance of money and goods, in keeping and lending money, and in the sale of goods:—Railway engineers, 6; engine drivers, 58; stokers, 118; railway guards, 48; signallers, 36; pointsmen, 10; telegraph clerks, 13; stationmasters, 18; clerks, 145; khalásís, 633; other railway servants, 547; cabmen, 5107; carters, 7922; carriage owners, 776; bullock drivers, 597; stable keepers, 79; palanquin bearers, 10,202; cart owners, 211; palanquin owners, 103; shipmasters, 114; Musalmán shipmasters (nakodás), 11; seamen, 2231; boatmen, 42,813; engineers, 200; farmers of ferries, 6; divers, 6; boat owners, 961; lascars, 2797; warehousemen (áratdárs), 311; keepers of screws, 78; markmen, 242; packers, 124; weighmen, 1135; emigration agents, 8; bankers and mahájans, 2921; poddárs, 86; money changers, 271; cashiers, 159; money lenders, 160; book-keepers, 25; merchants, 3229; silk dealers, 21; produce merchants (saudágars), 38; merchants in special goods, 1607; commission agents (páikárs), 90; petty dealers (bepárís), 5058; cotton dealers, 122; jute dealers, 76; goládárs, 104; shopkeepers, 30,418; petty shopkeepers (mudís), 5345; spice dealers (baniás), 57; pedlars, 35; hawkers, 2733; dealers in miscellaneous goods, 977; brokers, 2119; banians, 95; auctioneers, 9; shipping agents, 7; clerks, 10,247; writers (karánís), 1522; out-door clerks (sarkárs), 7026; shopmen, 435; messengers, 2244; vernacular clerks and writers (muharrirs), 1388; commission agents, 1; gumáshtás, 1363. Total of Class V., 157,654.

.—Persons employed in mechanical arts, manufactures, and engineering operations, and in the sale of goods manufactured or prepared for consumption: — Indigo manufacturers, 7; tea manufacturers, 12; sugar manufacturers, 1; oil manufacturers, 628; coal workers, 2; salt workers, 4; glass makers, 25; leather workers, 157; fat workers, 17; silk manufacturers, 88; jute manufacturers, 19; founders, 1; gas workers, 13; saw-mill proprietors, 11; mechanical engineers, 77; contractors, 660; builders, 128; masons (ráj mistris), 2779; stone-masons, 165; bricklayers, 7922; brickmakers, 1860; lime-burners, 407; sawyers, 1005; carpenters, 9047; thatchers, 3571; painters, 497; brick dealers, 157; well diggers, 26; carriage builders, 325; cart builders, 172;