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such a tenure would be the only means of preventing the abo- 

 minable fraud, plunder, and oppression, which the ryots suffer 

 under the zemindars, and the whole mass of native officers, em- 

 ployed in the cutcheree, or revenue department. Such farmers 

 as I allude to Avere not to be met with in the Company's territory, 

 nor, I believe, throughout the whole province of Guzerat while I 

 resided there. 



