86. It has been the practice in the dis­tricts, for Government’s principal servants, Teajecaurs*, &c. to take villages and lands in farm. You are directed to annul all such farms, and to give the lands to the Reyuts to cultivate. In future you are upon no account to farm out villages or lands to persons of this description; a breach of this order will incur the severest dis­pleasure.

87. It has been a practice in the districts, for the Mokuddums and Reyuts, &c. to pay a bribe of 50 or 100 pagodas a year to the officers of Government, for orders upon the Aumils and farmers to exempt them from being pressed. You are to make strict inquiry into this matter in future; and having found out the persons who shall have taken this bribe, you are to make such of them as are upon the spot refund the money, and pay it into Government. And if the persons who have taken it shall be at the Huzzoor or other places, you shall send an account thereof to the Huzzoor, that it may be levied from them.

88. People belonging to the Athoonee have frequently occasion to go from one village to another upon public business: in that case when they are to pass in and out of the fort, you are to address a note to the Kelladar, and require a pass for them from him, which you are to send to the gate, and you are to call the people before you and examine them; and observe the same rule when you send them out; and you are to note down your observance of this rule in your journal.

89. The bullocks of Government which appertain to the Imerut Mihil are sent to your Cutchery to be trained: you are to deliver them in charge to the Putteels of the villages; and whenever there may be Punna* belonging to Government, the bullocks are to be trained to the draught by yoking them to the plough thereof; and when there is no Punna belonging to Government, they are to be yoked to the ploughs of the Putteels. If the Shamboges or Reyuts shall presume to yoke them to their ploughs, a fine shall be exacted of 20 pagodas for every bullock so yoked. Strict orders are also to be given to the Putteels to take the Government bullocks every day to the Jungle, and to bring them back in the evening, and to picket them in their stalls within the fort, and feed them well. When­ever an order comes from your Cutchery for bullocks, you are to furnish them immediately.

90. A new establishment of Munnicaurs Shamboges, Beasps, &c. has been fixed for the district: they are to be kept up accord­ing to that establishment, and the performance of their duties to Government is to be exacted from them. If any of the old or new Shamboges or Serishtadars are unfit for their offices, you are to report the matter to the Huzzoor, and adhere to such order as you shall receive thereupon.