200 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [May, 1912. 
The king manages his finances with great care; but, as 
this would be a long matter, I do not write about it 
e officers of justice are: the ordinary judge, another 
judge for appeals and fhe. revision of cases, and a bailiff. 
Everything is done verba 
Those in whom he nae natural talents, he brings near 
him to make use of them, even though they be of low extrac- 
tion, or eet he makes grandees of them, as he did in 
the case of one of his vazirs, whom of a revenue-accoun- 
tant he made aapseiina of revenue, and one of his counsellors; * 
as also in the case of his secretary, once a poor Molla; 3 of 
his admiral, formerly an overseer of pioneers ;* of his chief 
physician ° and others. But, ‘those who from mechanics and 
polished iron, with turned heads and painted at the top. 
The Cottoal [Kotwal] 5 of ie Court, who is like a chief bailiff, 
and was formerly his fencing-master, carries a stick used in 
parting combatants. It is painted and gilt, and has a golden 
knob. e same is done for the other office-bearers, but for 
the rest they have as asa access to the Court as the Princes of 
the blood. 

mosissoO com mtos lauores este lhe aprezentou hii seu capitad o anno 
dantes.’’—‘‘ [Akbar’s] throne was a very rich Chinese pavilion, om 
was entirely covered with massive and lavi shly embroidered c¢ 
1t had been presen him bs e year before by one of the aioe, ii 
a wit eruschi : ciascuna di esse [vivande] ha una 
J attorno avvolta, & legata, quale 6 sigillata co’ 1 sigillo 
del pie over cuoco maggiore; & sono portate da tanti paggi 
50] an i i 
vent De. Gis 
vants, and mace-bearers precede = follow.’? Ain, I, 58.—The Latin 
o ¢ ( 1) has : 2 tc inten fercula, 
amplius quadraginta cS onbtonay cea atinis: que operculis tecta 
i ignata, ut veneni periculum, et suspicio 
eclinetur; apparitoribus preeuntibus, ceconomo subsequente, ad 
conclavis i iuvenes deferunt, — jab eunuchis accepta, 
anci — traduntur, 128 Regi > mense minist 
‘* Jus dicunt fae indices, alter pimacion. ‘alter ad quem, si yg 
latio. intercedat, iudicium deferatur. Prevor vel quesitor unus. Et 
a 0 dumtaxat, non scriptis fiunt.”? Mo ong. Leg. Comm. fol. 
7 Le Kinja Shah Mansiir. Cf. Ain I, 430, and Mong. Leg. Comm. 
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