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chuckrums for the said two shares: therefore possess the Nwija, 

 Pitnju, (wet and dry lands) trees, groves, gardens, hilloeks, water, 

 wood, stone, and treasures; the well that points beneath, the tree 

 that points above, together with all property belonging in common 

 thereto, within its lour boundaries. Your children, from generation 

 to generation, are free to bestow, or exchange, or to dispose of it 

 at their pleasure. Possess and enjoy it as long as the sun and the 

 moon, the earth and its vegetables, the mountains and the river 

 Cauvery, exist; and all prosperity attend you. Thus it is sub- 

 scribed by me Kistna Sawmey Pi/la, with my full consent to Cu- 

 mana Sawmey Pi/la. This deed is written by Mootoo Sawmey, the 

 village Conieopo/y." 



(Signed) Kistna Sawney. 



Witnesses 



AltNACHELUM, 

 SUNKALINGUJU, 



SlIUMMOGUM. 



That the inhabitants of Baroche, when under the English 

 government, were considered to possess landed property in their 

 own right, appears from a lease of some lands which I obtained 

 for the term of ninety-nine years, from Lullabhy, the celebrated 

 zemindar at Baroche; not drawn up in such strong terms as the 

 preceding deed of sale, but equally binding on all parties concerned 

 in the transaction. 



" This indenture, made on the 25th day of June, in the eighteenth 

 year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the Third, and in 

 the year of the Christian iera 1778, between Lullabhy Daaldass,moz- 



