Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

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8.395. Let the king always treat kindly a Srotriya, a sick or distressed man, an infant and an aged or indigent
man, a man of high birth, and an honourable man (Arya).
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8.396. A washerman shall wash (the clothes of his employers) gently on a smooth board of Salmaliwood he
shall not return the clothes (of one person) for those (of another), nor allow anybody (but the owner) to wear
them.
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8.397. A weaver (who has received) ten palas (of thread), shall return (cloth weighing) one pala more; he who
acts differently shall be compelled to pay a fine of twelve (panas).
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8.398. Let the king take one-twentieth of that (amount) which men, well acquainted with the settlement of tolls
and duties (and) skilful in (estimating the value of) all kinds of merchandise, may fix as the value for each
saleable commodity.
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8.399. Let the king confiscate the whole property of (a trader) who out of greed exports goods of which the king
has a monopoly or (the export of which is) forbidden.
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8.400. He who avoids a custom-house (or a toll), he who buys or sells at an improper time, or he who makes a
false statement in enumerating (his goods), shall be fined eight times (the amount of duty) which he tried to
evade.
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8.401. Let (the king) fix (the rates for) the purchase and sale of all marketable goods, having (duly) considered
whence they come, whither they go, how long they have been kept, the (probable) profit and the (probable)
outlay.
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8.402. Once in five nights, or at the close of each fortnight, let the king publicly settle the prices for the
(merchants).
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8.403. All weights and measures must be duly marked, and once in six months let him re-examine them.
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8.404. At a ferry an (empty) cart shall be made to pay one pana, a man’s (load) half a pana, an animal and a
woman one quarter of a (pana), an unloaded man one-half of a quarter.