RESPECTING a manufactory of musquets to be established in the Fort of Khân-Khân-hully: for which purpose, if it should be necessary to pull down forty or fifty houses belonging to poor people, it will not signify, as they will erect other habitations in their room, within the Paith [or outer town]

No mention being made of any compensation to the poor inhabitants for the demolition of their houses, it may be concluded that none was authorized. It is probable, indeed, that the houses in question were of very little value: but that consideration does not lessen the injustice of the present order, whatever may be the case as to the actual hardships which it inflicted.