Nils PERBET

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Young Salt Pond's Keeper

The owners of the salt ponds must be members of the community of Maras. The size of the salt pond assigned to a family depends on the family's size. Within a few days after closing the water-feeder notch, the keeper carefully scrapes the dry salt from the sides and bottom, puts it into a suitable vessel, reopens the water-supply notch, and carries away the salt