INFORMING them, that the management [or chastisement] of the Polygars, and other turbulent and contumacious tribes, belonged to the province of the Bukhshy of Ehshâm, and not to theirs; that the above mentioned Bukhshy was accordingly engaged in that business; and that the charge of the defence of the forts and of the district [in general], likewise appertained [exclusively] to the same officer.