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and chiefs, they are appointed to promote the 
prosperity of the towns and villages and the wel¬ 
fare of the inhabitants. If, therefore, they take 
property by violence, or govern unjustly, they 
shall be degraded and punished. In regard to 
government assessments, when the country is set¬ 
tled and prosperous, consultation will be held with 
the leaders of the people, and what is suitable and 
moderate will be taken to defray the necessary 
expenses of government. 
44 4 Whoever desires to come to the new town, 
or to the towns and villages beyond the Saluen 
river under the English Government, may come 
and live happily, and those who do not wish to 
remain may go where they please, without hin- 
derance. 
44 4 Given at Martaban, the 6th April, and the 
14th of the wane of the moon Tagoo, 1187.’ 
44 Anxious to make a farther examination of 
the Kalyen river, we ascended it again at eleven 
o’clock, and proceeded up to the distance of four¬ 
teen miles, having every where from four to five 
fathoms water. At the farthest point which we 
ascended, the river did not exceed seventy yards 
in breadth, and in one or two situations the hills 
were within a mile and a half of us. No elevated 
ground was, however, any where to be found on 
its banks. The highest spring-tides took place 
this morning, and this afforded us an opportunity 
of determining the greatest rise and fall of the 
