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may have on it for vajefa, pysita, or any other established custom, 

 are regularly produced; and properly and fully proved on a strict 

 inquiry, which will be made hereafter. At present the grand 

 point is to collect all the outstanding revenue that can be done 

 with justice and reason. You will therefore, without delay, please 

 to make the necessary inquiry as to the cultivation and produce 

 of the lands this season; and what has already been recovered 

 from them, and what they can still bear to pay; and acquaint me 

 with the result of your inquiry. 



" I am exerting my endeavours, as you must yours, to get the 

 Dessoys, Patells, and Ryots, who have absconded, or are absent 

 from their villages, to return home, and pursue their business; 

 and to them, and all the other subjects of the Company in your 

 districts, you will please to give all assurances of protection and 

 favourable treatment. 



" Enclosed is a list of the civil and revenue establishment which 

 I think right for Dhuboy; you will please to appoint the several 

 people wanted: if you judge any addition necessary, acquaint me, 

 and it shall be made. A junadar with five and twenty horse will 

 attend you for the protection of the purgunnas, or any other ser- 

 vice you may require. The number of Malzupty sepoys neces- 

 sary for the collection I cannot determine; you will therefore em- 

 ploy as many as you find requisite; observing in this, and all other 

 circumstances, the greatest frugality. 



" As Bhaderpoor and its villages belonged to the Mahratta 

 government, we should have possession of it; and having given 

 this opinion to general Goddard, he has written to me, to take 

 charge of this district; you will therefore send proper persons so 



