WHAT you mention, respecting your having advanced fifty thousand rupees to Kûtbûddeen Khân, the Jagiredâr of Adoni, as well as what you state with regard to your having seventy thousand rupees more ready, in your Tosheh-khâneh [or treasury], and to the dispatch of your people [into the country], for the purpose of collecting the revenues, has afforded us satisfaction, and meets our approbation.

You write, “that, owing to the want of rain, it is to be apprehended “that there may be some delay in realizing the revenue.” It is known. You must write to the Aumils of the several Taalûks, and direct them to distribute grain, &c. in charity. Almighty God will, in his great good­ness and mercy, bestow the rain of his bounteousness [upon us].