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lo do, in the name of the Honourable Company, and annex it to 

 Dhuboy. In respect to ihc inhabitants, revenues and appoint- 

 ments, you will proceed agreeably to my instructions for the Dhu- 

 boy purgunna. 



" Your expenses will be paid by the Honourable Company; in 

 them I need not to you recommend frugality. 



(Signed) ROBERT GAMBIER, 



As Chief of Baroche, and Collector General of 



all its dependencies, 6;c. 

 Baroche, 



0.6th January, 1780. 



Two months after taking possession of the Dhuboy and Bha- 

 derpoor districts I received directions to occupy the purgunna 

 of Zinorc, and the fortress of Ranghur, in a commanding situa- 

 tion on the banks of the Nerbudda, which had been ceded 

 by Futty Silmg to general Goddard, in behalf of the Company, 

 on settling a peace with the Guykwars in Guzerat. These 

 places were garrisoned only by a small party of Arabs and Scin- 

 dians. 



After the Mahratta army had entirely left the country, and the 

 Ryots were returned to their respective villages and agricultural 

 employments, peace and plenty once more blessed the purgunnas 

 intrusted to my care. And in consequence of orders from Bom- 

 bay to the Board of Revenue at Baroche, directing them to trans- 

 mit the most exact statement of the revenues in the several depen- 

 dant districts, with a particular account of the produce, popula- 

 tion and commerce of those lately acquired by general Goddard, 



