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an ass’s load. If a man’s pay is due for 3 years, they designate it 
as one for many years and then write [only] one-half of it (?). 
The faces of the clerks of the tawjzh (description-roll) are dis- 
agreeable. The answer of the author of this journal is, ‘‘ The state 
it].” No harm one to me by these men (the 
clerks), and no confusion has been introduced into my affairs by 
them ; but i rom seeing and hearing what they have 
[ Verse. | 
My heart is oppressed, and the pain is so great, 
That so much blood gushes ont of it. 
In short, the Emperor’s orders for abolishing zakat and hast, 
sent to Bengal, were for abolishing them in the parganahs of the 
Crownland. The Nawwab had a free choice in his jagir with 
regard to all exactions except the rahdari and the prohibited cesses 
(abwabs), But this just, God-fearing, benevolent governor, out o! 
his sense of justice and devotion to God, abolished the hasil 
amounting to 15 lacs of rupees which used to be collected (131, b.] 
in his own jagir, and he thus chose to please God, relieve the people, 
and follow his religious master (Aurangzib 
down this wicked thing. : 
VIIL. In the kotwalz chabutras of this country it was the 
custom that whenever a man roved or claim against an- 
Nawwab abolished it. 
- When the plaintiff and defendant presented themselves 
at the magistracy (muhakwma) both of them were kept in prison 
And their liberat 
ers and paid them into the State. This custom, too, was now 
abolished. 
feed vast numbers to satiety at the tables 
profuse charity so thoroughly removed poverty 
