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recommend it to von to endeavour by all possible means to surprise 
him, and if you judge that it may be the means of effecting this, we 
authorise you to offer, by proclamation, a reward of ten thousand rupees 
to any person who shall either apprehend him or point out the place of 
his residence so that he shall be apprehended. 
Agreed that Captain Coxe be written as follows •— 
Const., 13st January , 1778. 
To 
Captain Coxe, 
Commanding the Battalion at Bagga. 
Sir, 
We direct that when you shall receive notice from Mr. Middleton, 
that the Nabab of Oude has complied with our requisition to him 
to divest Futtay Shaw and his family of the Zemindary of Husseypore, 
you will march your Battalion to Gorruckpore, and use your utmost 
endeavours, in conjunction with the force which the Nabab may employ 
upon this occasion both to apprehend Futtay Shaw and to put the 
person in possession of the Zemindary to whom the Nabab shall grant 
it. 
Terri. Deymt: ‘'t (Sd.) Not legible. 
The 7tli December , 1821. J Secretary to the Government, 
(True extracts.) 
Extract from the Broceedings of the Governor-General in Ccmncil 
in the Revenue Department , dated the 17th April , 1778. 
Extract from a letter from the Revenue Council of Patna , dated 2nd 
April , 1778. 
We have received petitions from Mohesh Dutt, the son of Babu 
Boshunt Shaw, who was a relation of Futtay Shaw and murdered by 
him when renter of Husseypore, and from Dhujjoo Singh, a Talookdar 
of that District, who has long acted as partizan against the rebel and 
been wounded in the service, and is recommended by Captain Coxe 
for his activity and the assistance which he has afforded him, praying 
that their title to some recompense for their losses and services may be 
taken into consideration, which we have to lay before you. 
We have before mentioned to you the distressed circumstances of 
Mohesh Dutt. Instead of any allowance which we before recommended, 
we would now rather propose that Futtay Shahi should be declared to 
have forfeited his Zemindary, and that it should be bestowed on this 
young man, that some villages should be declared to have forfeited his 
