138 Journal of the Asiatie Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVI, 
of the Factory, demanded of Mr. Cooke the cash account 
with the balance thereof, but Mr. Cooke entreated he would wait 
till this evening which Mr. Russell did agree to having first 
ordered Ensign Nairne to change the guard and centinels at each 
gate out of the party he brought with him and that nothing 
pass out of the Factory without his leave. ss s 
* * * * * * * 
_ Mr. Cooke being then ill of the gout and confined to his 
chamber by it sent his assistant, Mr. Medly, with the cash 
account and the keys of the cash chest and Mr. Price was 
ordered to see the cash weighed of agreeable to the ballance, 
Duss Messa ! Rs 88276: but when said chest came to be opened 
in the presence of Mr. Price, Mr. Medley, Mr. Cookes banian 
and many others, there was but 13,000/-Rs Medrass to make 
good this large Ballance, which occasioned a deficiency of cash 
Duss Messa Rupees 75276. * sd 1g 3 Mr. Russell 
Vacqueel to give such answers to this affair as may put a stop to 
their troubling us any more on this account and to prevent their 
ing displeased with our refusal it may not be amiss to 
— the Duan with a looking glass on some proper occa- 
sion, 
December 1736. List of milit t ‘ h 
Dacca Factory :— itary stores belonging to the 
or ten mashes 
‘ Das Masha hes. a : x 
measure equivalent on the average to 184 ae ee 
i th 
grains. There were generally 
” e ru 
each. (See Pinsep’s Yidiads Antiquities.) pees were only ten mashes 
a 
