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 honour of visit and return visit with the Governor. Also visits were exchanged mutually with Azimya Bahadur, the Nawab of Carnatic. In Madras a choultry was built next to Monegar's Choultry for feeding a hundred poor persons and giving alms to another hundred every day and the charity thus started this year became permanent when the Rajah invested a lakh of rupees in Government Securities on 28th June, 1870, for its up-keep. The Rajah saw for the first time the Rajah Surabhi Venkata Jagannatha Rau Bahadur, Rajah of Jatprole in the Nizam's Dominions, who had now been to Madras and who strengthened the acquaintance by paying a visit to Venkatagiri a few days later and proving his skill as a rider. The same year occurred an incident about the Rajah's titular address. He was being addressed by the Government for some time past as the Zemindar of Venkatagiri instead of the usual Rajah and the matter was taken to the notice