thm ceded the produce of their landed property, 

 ■was a Malay of the name of Incbi Sarati, who 

 had parted with his patrimonial Dusujh or or- 

 chard, at Panglangdna to the British authorities ia 

 182S. The title deed.^ of the Estate can be trac- 

 ed back in his family as far back as 1723, but 

 there is sufficient proof of its having been enjoy- 

 ed by his anccRtors at so early a period as 1603. 

 The Panghooloo of Naoning selected this person 

 as a fit subject for the first display of his preten- 

 sions to independence, by f.jrcib!y ejecting him, 

 in 1830, from this Dusun on the pretext that it 

 had from time immemorial been the property 

 of the Panghooloos of Nanniog. 



It appears as if Dool Syed had purposely fixed 

 on this individual on account of the transfer hav- 

 ing been so recently made that it was perfectly 

 frenh in the memory of his adherents, and neigh- 

 boring Native powers ; whilst, it so occiuTing 

 that it had been effticted in the very year in 

 which he had first openly refused to obey the 

 orders of Government, the seizure was calculat- 

 ed to convey the impressvon of an open and con- 

 temptuous defiance of its authority. 



Inchi Surun resorted to Malacca, and laid his 

 complaint before the proper Officers of Govern- 

 ment: it 80 happened, however, that His Majes- 

 ty s Court of Judicature was closed, in conse- 

 quence of the non-appointment of a successor to 

 Sir John Claridge, as Recorder, which circum- 

 stance permitted Government to delay until the 

 receipt of orders from home. Had it been open, 

 the Civil power would have been compelled to 

 retort to instant measures for the recovery of the 



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