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for they are the two youngest and have not distinguished themselves in 
any way known. Rajendro Protap’s father is the eldest grandson and 
the person to whom the title if hereditary would fall. He waives it in 
favour of his son. The second brother acquiesces in the propriety of 
this arrangement. The young man’s character is good, and the Raja’s 
dying request to Messrs. Lynch and Macdonell was, that the Govern¬ 
ment would support him, a request which, considering the late Raja’s 
good services to Government, I do think some attention should he paid. 
The result of the uncles’ claims to a share of the property cannot 
affect in any way that I see, the claims of the eldest grandson or of his 
son to the title. I therefore recommend the young Koomar’s applica¬ 
tion to the favorable consideration of the Lieutenant-Governor. It is 
of considerable importance to Government that, whatever doubt there 
is about the property, there should be none about the title, and that 
there should be a Raja of Hutwa bound to us by ties of gratitude, and 
able to exert his hereditary influence in our behalf. 
I have. etc. 
* 
(Sd.) E. A. Samuells, 
■ — Commissioner . 
To 
Maharajah Rajendro Protap Shahee Bahadur, 
Calcutta , November 23rd, 1858. 
My Dear Sir, 
I promised your Vakeel that I would write and let you know when 
the Governor-General had been pleased to bestow on you the title of 
Maharaja Bahadoor in succession to your late grandfather. I now fulfil 
my promise. 
The order has been given by the Governor-General and will sharp¬ 
ly be communicated to you officially by the Lieutenant-Governor of 
Bengal, through the Commissioner of the Patna Division. 
I have known your late excellent grandfather since the year 3837, 
when I was an Assistant at Chupra, and I always entertained a high res¬ 
pect for him, especially for the exemplary way in which he discharged 
his duties as a landlord, and as a loyal subject of the British Govern¬ 
ment. 
The manner in which he behaved from the first breaking out of 
these unhappy mutinies until the day of his death, was such as to com¬ 
mand the admiration of all his friends, and to entitle him to a high 
place in the estimation of the Rulers of his country. 
The services he rendered have had their weight in inducing the 
Government to confer his titles and lionorus upon you who is his chosen 
representative. 
