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on the banks of the Oze, is little more than seven miles from 

 Dhuboy ; some of its villages only three. There are sixteen inha- 

 bited, many desolated from the incursions of the Bheels and Gra- 

 cias. The produce is similar to that of the Dhuboy purgunna; 

 the revenue this year, which exceeds most under the Mahratta 

 government, is only sixteen thousand rupees: the customs in 

 tranquil times amount to three or four thousand rupees per 

 annum. 



" In Bhaderpoor is a small gurry for the protection of the town. 

 It contains the custom-house, and a few other low buildings, of 

 poor materials; which were burnt down by the Mahrattas, with 

 a considerable part of the gurry, when they found it would be- 

 come English property. I have repaired the whole at a small 

 expense; and in all respects have endeavoured to fulfil the duties in 

 the several districts intrusted to my care, with fidelity to my 

 honourable employers, and to the benefit and happiness of the 

 subjects in their late acquisitions. 



(Signed) James Forbes, 



Collector' of Dhuboy, fyc. 



Dhuboy, 

 \§th January, 1781. 



In the course of the preceding year I put the fortifications 

 and public buildings at Dhuboy into the best repair in my power, 

 at a small expense, and^ sent the following answer to some re- 

 marks made by the chief of Baroche on my accounts. 



" I now return the Dhuboy accounts, rectified according to your 

 instructions; and I flatter myself the following remarks will be a 

 satisfactory answer to that part of your letter, desiring me to assign 



