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of rent from short payments for several years, and that for their refrac- 

 tory conduct, and the expenses we were put to in the expedition against 

 them in the years 1833—1834, they had been fined to the extent of 1000 

 rupees, besides having this against them, I conceived that the out- 

 rage some individuals of this tribe had committed in putting to death 

 4 Burmese hunters had been unavenged. 



Para. 4th. — But it will appear from Ensign Brodie' s letter of the 

 5th December that it seemed to be the impression that the fine had been 

 imposed in satisfaction of that outrage, and that such had been the sus- 

 picious conduct of the immediate persons employed in the payment and 

 receipt of the rents, that it was doubtful to him whether we had any 

 just claims to arrears at all except for the past and current year. 



Para. 5th. — Under these circumstances, Ensign Brodie proposed to 

 limit his demands upon the chiefs to the payment of these arrears, and 

 of the fine which were distinctly acknowledged, to I which of course 

 assented ; after some delay the whole of the fine has been made good and 

 arrangements have been made for the payment of our rents by villages 

 direct to our authorities, instead of through the chiefs, on whom there 

 rests a suspicion of having appropriated a portion of the sums paid. 

 The arrangements concluded with the chiefs by Ensign Brodie are con- 

 tained in his letter of the 13th instant, and will, I trust, be approved by 

 Government. 



Translation. 



A copy of an agreement entered into with the chiefs of Busannee, at 



Bengal Katta. 



Your Lordship having arrived at Bengal Katta, in the Garrow coun 

 try, we, the subjects of the Hon'ble East India Company, have written 

 and subscribed to the following articles, for the purpose of shewing 

 that we are certainly such, and should we ever act in opposition to the 

 said articles we shall be liable to punishment. 



Article 1st. — We agree to abstain from committing murder either 

 in our own clan or in any other, or will we permit any amongst us to 

 do so, or to commit any other heinous offences, that we may be able 

 to prevent. 



Article 2nd. — It was our former custom to hang human skulls in 

 our houses. We hereby agree to abstain therefrom for the future. 



