WHAT you have stated to us, respecting the pay of four men belonging to [the garrison of] Guramcoondah, who have been some time dead, having been appropriated to their own use by the officers of that place, is revealed. We desire you will enquire very particularly into this transaction; and having ascertained the time that the aforesaid officers have been in possession [or receipt] of this money, make them refund the same.
I am not clear, whether it be here meant that the officers continued to draw an dreceive the pay of the deceased men after their death, or that they had only possessed themselves of the pay due to them at their decease. In either case, the notice taken of the offence by the Sultan appears extremely slight.