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162 4. Yma huayna (almost a youth), twenty to twenty-five. Worker. 5. Coca palla (coca picker), sixteen to twenty. Worker. 6. Pucllac huamra, eight to sixteen. Light work. 7. Ttanta raquizic (bread receiver), six to eight. 8. Macta puric, under six. 9. Saya huamrac, able to stand. 10. Mosoc caparic, baby in arms.

From all the classes younger than the puric, male and female, a certain number were taken annually for the service of the state and of religion. The population appears to have increased rapidly. In the pachaca, or old ayllu, there were a hundred purics. The Llacta-camayoc or head of the pachaca had to see that all were properly nourished and to register births and deaths.

Ten pachacas formed a huaranca (1000 families), with a chief selected from among the llacta-camayocs. The whole valley or district comprised a varying number of huarancas which was called a hunu, and the old hereditary native chiefs, with the name of curacas, retained some judicial power and were free from tribute. But over every four hunus there was an imperial officer called a Tucuyricoc, the literal meaning of which is 'He who sees all.' His duty as overseer was to see that the whole complicated system of administration worked with regularity, and that all the responsible officials under him performed their duties efficiently. The later Incas had a Viceroy