YOUR letter has been received. You write, “that you were about to “issue to the eighty men of the Nâimâr tribe,* who had been incorporated into the Usud Ilhyes, the regulated rations,* and other advances, for their separate expences, from the date of our orders on “the subject; but that Syed Peer [the Kilaadâr] furthermore demanded “certain arrears of pay and rations, due to them previously to that “period.” The aforesaid Kilaadâr is deprived of his understanding [or has lost his wits]. The rations, and other allowances, are to be paid to the men in question, from the date of our orders [on the subject].