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 Government claimed the right of enjoyment of two places Pudi and Periyamit belonging to the Venkatagiri Estate, because they were Inam villages. But the Judge decided against the Government and decreed with costs, as the annual Peishkash of this Zamin was not fixed on income but on terms of military tenure.

Once in His Excellency's Camp at Nelaballi in Sagutur taluk the Rajah had an interview with H.E. the Governor of Madras, Sir Thomas Munro, and he received from him a present of an English rapier and other honours.

He bought the valuable emerald which was once presented to Yerra Dacha Naidu the fourth member of his line for his victorious Military career, but which had subsequently reached other hands. The emerald was in the custody of the Pittapur Rajahs and now Buchi Thammaiya Garu, a member of that line, mortgaged it to the Rajah, for a sum of money, and when he came back to take it, he