LETTER CLXXXV.
To SHUMSÛDDEEN KHÂN and others;* dated 13th TÛLOOEY.
(20th December.)

DIRECTING them to deposit the produce of the revenues of Nugr in the Tosheh-khâneh; and to carry to account [or give credit in their account for] the value of all old cloths, in like manner [or at the same rate] as the Dâroghâs of the Jinsy formerly fixed the same.

OBSERVATIONS.

This letter is somewhat perplexing; nor am I clear that I understand it rightly. The word <Arabic> which I have rendered cloths, may mean either cloth in the piece, or clothes (wearing apparel). Then it is also possible, it may have been intended that the old cloth, or clothes, in question, should be sold, and the produce carried to account: an interpretation which, I think, the original would very well bear out.